What is unity good for?

[Aphrodit3]

The only way to end racial tension is to intermingle and to interbreed. When your mom is white and your dad isn't, you realize that it really isn't that big of a deal, and people like Dan start to look ridiculous and antiquated.

I'm all for interbreeding and intermingling, you know that. I think a lot of people missed the point of my thread. I think political unity to support a central cause is pretty important to most Armenians. I would hate to see us extinct in a decade or so.

[loseyourname]

I can almost guarantee you that you will still be alive in a decade. So will every person you care about, unless they are very elderly to begin with. They will still be the same people you know and love today. I don't see why you are so concerned with the language habits and cultural identity of future generations. You should be concerned that they are good, capable people, regardless of their political views and national affiliation and regardless of what language they speak.

[xBaron Dants]

I can almost guarantee you that you will still be alive in a decade. So will every person you care about, unless they are very elderly to begin with. They will still be the same people you know and love today. I don't see why you are so concerned with the language habits and cultural identity of future generations. You should be concerned that they are good, capable people, regardless of their political views and national affiliation and regardless of what language they speak.

Look, that is very easy to say for someone who's "American" and whose ancestral culture has already pretty much disappeared.

Most Armenians don't want to have that plight. With the language and the national affiliation comes the culture and everything we have been born and raised with.

Who are we to say that the works of Tumanyan, Charents, Tekeyan, Naregatsi and all can just disappear because "America is helping us now", when we know what our very own grandparents went through just to keep it alive?

[Aphrodit3]

I can almost guarantee you that you will still be alive in a decade. So will every person you care about, unless they are very elderly to begin with. They will still be the same people you know and love today. I don't see why you are so concerned with the language habits and cultural identity of future generations. You should be concerned that they are good, capable people, regardless of their political views and national affiliation and regardless of what language they speak.

Yes, that's a given. Of course I care about those things. But don't you think it would be a complete waste to let such a rich culture die? It would break my heart.

[loseyourname]

Most Armenians don't want to have that plight. With the language and the national affiliation comes the culture and everything we have been born and raised with.

Who are we to say that the works of Tumanyan, Charents, Tekeyan, Naregatsi and all can just disappear because "America is helping us now", when we know what our very own grandparents went through just to keep it alive?

What plight? I'm a perfectly happy person, and I'm also living without the terrible ethnic anxiety you all seem to have. I fail to see how that it is a plight.

I also fail to see how the works of great Armenians will disappear if the language dies or the nation collapses. Ancient Greece is gone and the language is dead, yet their great writers and thinkers remain the most influential and most widely read in all of western civilization.

[loseyourname]

Yes, that's a given. Of course I care about those things. But don't you think it would be a complete waste to let such a rich culture die? It would break my heart.

Perhaps, but it happens. New cultures come out of it.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

allright, this may sound like a retarded post, but...
so I was reading over the jew thread, and about armenian unity, etc. and I can't help but wonder why it is that we want to be united? why this urge to unite all armenians? why do we consider it to be bad to go off and dilute in people to have a one big UNITED WORLD? why the segragation and hence unision of armenian people?
...now obviously, since I'm at this site, I have a natural tendency to stick with armenians, but I can't figure out why...
any thoughts?

Since you're sleeping Ill wake u up!!! duuhhhhh! are u first generations armenian in US? or anywhere else? i guess u are. then u need to understand that unity keeps ur identity, ur nationality,ur self by all means. if u start thinking that why we have to be united then u shouldnt consider urself armenian? unity brings a nation closer, keeps the bounds strong, how do u expect to stay armenian longer if u dont know the importance of unity? i guess u dont care if u ask such a question

[xBaron Dants]

What plight? I'm a perfectly happy person, and I'm also living without the terrible ethnic anxiety you all seem to have. I fail to see how that it is a plight.

I also fail to see how the works of great Armenians will disappear if the language dies or the nation collapses. Ancient Greece is gone and the language is dead, yet their great writers and thinkers remain the most influential and most widely read in all of western civilization.

Haha. This anxiety doesn't at all compare with the tremendous amount of joy that comes with it too. Anybody who's stepped on Armenian soil after hearing about it for so long knows what I mean.

I've read translations of Baruyr Sevak. Doesn't compare to the real deal. And why can't we accept ethnic diversity? What's wrong with that? Are you too afraid you'll have the urge to become a racist? You won't get rid of prejudice by taking away all ethnicities. Some new form of prejudice will be created.

[sSsflamesSs]

Baron, I respect you more with every post that you post.

[xBaron Dants]

Baron, I respect you more with every post that you post.

You know that it's more than mutual.
Now I'm just afraid that I'll post something really stupid and lose it all.