What is unity good for?

[Darorinag]

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.

YES!! VERY well said!!

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

Amen.

[loseyourname]

Dan, are you completely insane? What the f*ck does this have to do with anything Jewish?

Interbreeding doesn't wipe out anything. I still exist, my children will exist, their children will exist, so on and so forth. What the hell difference does it make where the damn genes came from? We are all human.

[Darorinag]

Interbreeding doesn't wipe out existence per se. It wipes out the existence of cultures.

[loseyourname]

No, it doesn't. It alters cultures, perhaps, but it really only has a great effect if everyone is doing it. I'm not advocating that. I'm just advocating that those of you who would not like to do it not do it and quit criticizing people - Armenian or otherwise - that do. Choose a mate based on a holistic evaluation of the person as an individual, not as a member of a group. If ethnicity is important to you, so be it, but it isn't important to everyone, and there is no reason why it should be.

[Darorinag]

No, you're wrong. Armenians are very few in number and can't afford to do that. We're not like the Chinese. We can't afford to do it. As much as I like your theory of not criticizing people for their choices or meddling in their affairs, I must disagree with you on this one. At least when it comes to Armenians.

[loseyourname]

Dan, an Armenian is still a human being, and is free to choose whoever he or she wants to choose. It is their choice, and you have no right to tell them what to do.

[Darorinag]

I have every right to tell them what they should do. It's called freedom of speech. And they have every right not to listen.

[loseyourname]

True enough. I suppose what I meant is that you have no right to impose your will on them. You can shout and be ignored all you want. Heck, I'm sure you're more than used to it by now.

[Darorinag]

I'm not concerned about rights in the legal sense. I'm referring to RIGHTS and WRONGS. It's clear that miscegenation will hurt our culture. This is something that isn't relative. It's absolute. And it's clear.

[loseyourname]

Wrong to who, Dan? There is nothing absolutely wrong about the dispersal of a culture. If you really believed that, you wouldn't support the efforts of the Nazis or of the British imperialists.