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Explaining being Armenian.

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  • #21
    Originally posted by Anonymouse
    Next time, you should ask him if he has played this game. Maybe it might help put some of those marbles in the right slots to make his brain function correctly.


    lol ....that game has my name on it.. it says: "STICK EM' INNA STEW"

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    • #22
      Originally posted by SagGal
      Well, you're not alone on this. I've had people ask me my nationality and when I tell them Armenian, they ask, "What is that?" in stead of at least, "Where is that?"
      all I hear back is...Romania? or was it Albania? is that the country near Yugoslavia? People need to stop education off the news so much...there is a thing called an Atlas.

      I don't even bother anymore...Right after I say Armenia, I gotta give this whole lecture about where it is, this and that. I though people where more educated than that...

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      • #23
        Man, at least it's not as bad as it is for the poor Assyrians, or Syrians.

        "What are you?"

        "I'm a Syrian"

        "You're Assyrian?"

        "No no, I'm A Syrian, Syrian"

        "Assyrian?"

        "No Syrian!"
        "All I know is I'm not a Marxist." -Karl Marx

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        • #24
          ive been through many kinds of missunderstandings like these that youve mentioned, shows how stupid any ignorant people can be. I have after ive been asked about what my natioanlity is been asked again and again-questions like are u really sure? youre armenian? Im like yeah. NO ARE YOU SURE? First they start of guessing my netionality, mentioning like 10 countries, and when i say armenia, they actually dont know where it is. I heard someone turn to his friend and say, oh yeah its Soviet, or was soviet. The person who said this was actually of turkish origin...aint it funny?
          Last edited by Tres Bien; 08-09-2004, 06:04 AM.

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          • #25
            To be fair, all of these former Soviet republics have only existed for a little over a decade as independent nations. There's a pretty good chance that Geography and History texts used in primary schools have not been updated since then.

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            • #26
              when i used to live in germany (and spoke it fluently ) we had many turks there...that's where i first met a turk....anyways, she was asking me what i was...she didn't understand "ich bin armenisch"...she was like "what is armenian?"...she was a nice girl, what does she know? born and raised in germany...the irony was striking; i had to explain to her that we're neighbors but nothing beyond that, we were just kids...

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              • #27
                Its fun to se people suffer, as theyre trying to guess ones nationaliy.

                they can never guess. And next time someone asks me, out of the blue, ill say im chinese. problem solved.

                Im not really that keen on letting all the strangers who ask me where im from to let them know, its a privete thing, why should everyone know...
                i mean stopping me on the street, its just too much...!idiots!
                Or ill were a t-shirt that sais-

                "armenian"! or DON'T ASK.

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                • #28
                  People have a lot of trouble guessing at my ethnic background too. A lot seem to think I'm Polynesian or something.

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by loseyourname
                    People have a lot of trouble guessing at my ethnic background too. A lot seem to think I'm Polynesian or something.
                    I guessed it right away. You are mix between Rwandan and Antarctican.

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by dusken
                      I guessed it right away. You are mix between Rwandan and Antarctican.

                      Why did this make me laugh?

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