Do you guys ever a friend who's not Armenian, usually whites, that don't understand why Armenians do certain things and find them backwards, and then you explain it and they're like "Ooooooh I see." I suppose this problem only happens in Los Angeles where there are a lot of Armenians and people actually take notice.
For example... I was hanging out with my friend John recently who is white and doesn't really identify with any ethnic group. He has other Armenian friends, and began asking me why we do certain things. The first thing he asked was "Why are you guys so strict about marrying into your own race? That seems kinda backwards, you should just marry who you fall in love with" and I had to explain that unlike other cultures/nationalities, we don't exactly have the most stable time in history right now... we just came out of a genocide, so we sorta need to "repopulate" our people, and that won't exactly happen if we marry out too much, not to mention we're a small group as it is. It's not like Chinese people have the fear of waking up tomorrow and having no Chinese people in the world, so they can afford to marry out of their race cause they have enough of a pure gene pool. Then he gave the "OOOOoooooohhh I never thought of it that way" comment
This went on for like an hour. You guys ever have to explain that sort of stuff that seems really obvious but for some reason other people don't get?
For example... I was hanging out with my friend John recently who is white and doesn't really identify with any ethnic group. He has other Armenian friends, and began asking me why we do certain things. The first thing he asked was "Why are you guys so strict about marrying into your own race? That seems kinda backwards, you should just marry who you fall in love with" and I had to explain that unlike other cultures/nationalities, we don't exactly have the most stable time in history right now... we just came out of a genocide, so we sorta need to "repopulate" our people, and that won't exactly happen if we marry out too much, not to mention we're a small group as it is. It's not like Chinese people have the fear of waking up tomorrow and having no Chinese people in the world, so they can afford to marry out of their race cause they have enough of a pure gene pool. Then he gave the "OOOOoooooohhh I never thought of it that way" comment
This went on for like an hour. You guys ever have to explain that sort of stuff that seems really obvious but for some reason other people don't get?
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