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  • #21
    Besides dealing with pop-culture the Armenian youth is also influenced by "Seapahns" or as I label them as "Tohkti Mart". Seapahns dad was a Iranian, now he is American, while his kid will be who knows what?

    Almost forget, add the fact that most Armenian parents discourage any ideas of helping Armenia because they are so caught in amassing "debt" thinking it is equity and Armenians are on a train headed towards extinction.

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    • #22
      Ive know a lot of armenians that are very cultural ,and so on...but unfortunatly there are those who are very stupid as well, and those are the ones who are ruining things for us others...(jez, im beggning to sound like my mother...!)

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      • #23
        Originally posted by Tres Bien
        Ive know a lot of armenians that are very cultural ,and so on...but unfortunatly there are those who are very stupid as well, and those are the ones who are ruining things for us others...(jez, im beggning to sound like my mother...!)
        Yeah, the ones that "say it how it is" and give a dam. Yes, let us all get plugged back into the Matrix and pretend like everything is ok.

        In fact I am going to go enlist to help defend my country against "Islamic" oppression.

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        • #24
          I need help. What can you do when youre family is really holding you back..thats why im writing this stuff- because im stuck in the wheel of hedamnatsotion...meaning -no communication at all, stone-age talk and parents who doesnt want YOUR best.

          I just want to know HOW or WHAt has caused them to behave in sucj way and does hedamants people think????????????????????

          i its just something i want to understand and get some opinions onj. I dont get it why my parnet sare still together if they cant talk to eachotehr.

          Is it beacuse they are both armenian!

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          • #25
            Originally posted by Virgil
            Seapahns dad was a Iranian, now he is American, while his kid will be who knows what?
            My kid will be your sibling after I get done with what I'm doing right now.
            this post = teh win.

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            • #26
              Originally posted by Seapahn
              My kid will be your sibling after I get done with what I'm doing right now.
              Why are you getting mad? By your logic your dad was a Iranian and you are a American because it says so on a piece of paper? Your kid will be a American I guess, unless of course you move out of America by the time he or she is born.

              Seapahn, am I mising somthing here? Didn't you state that "You leave your nation behind when you move"?

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              • #27
                Originally posted by umnatamaria
                This question is sort of off topic but I will ask it anyhow: do most Armenians in the US just speak Armenian or can also write and read in it?

                This is probably a lame question to you but I am just wondering.
                I can't. Well, not anymore. When I was about 4 and a half years old, my parents and I moved from Yerevan to Russia and that's when my Armenian began to fade. My dad told me that I used to speak perfect Armenian and....and....and...Russia screwed it up for me. I went to a Russian school, had Russian friends and Armenian just slipped away from me. I still know a little bit but just a little. When I was 10, we moved to the States and well, I'm fluent in Russian (speak, read and write) but not in Armenian. I really need to go to Yerevan. Getting homesick more each day. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go cry my little eyes out in the corner.
                I see...

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by Baron Dants
                  Eh..the more I stay here, the more I realize how out of sync I am with the rest (or most of the rest) of the Armenians living in North America, which is why I no longer bother to argue, or attempt to prove my point.

                  I just can't wait for the day when I pack my bags for Yerevan..
                  You and me both ahpair, but before then we have to do everything in our power to make sure it's a yerevan worth returning too.
                  "All I know is I'm not a Marxist." -Karl Marx

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                  • #29
                    Yerevan's already worth going to. Any city where work starts at 10am and where the taxi driver invited you for a coffee is fiiiine with me.

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by Virgil
                      Seapahn, am I mising somthing here? Didn't you state that "You leave your nation behind when you move"?
                      Ummm....I think he meant that the nation isn't declining, the Armenians that leave that nation are. Thus, you leave your nation behind when you move.

                      I was born in the US, so I can't read or write it. But for some odd reason, I can recite the alphabet. I'm not sure why it still sticks out in my mind. I had one class in an Armenian church Sunday school when I was a wee little lad. It was too far away, so we stopped going, but I can still recall the letters. Kind of baffling.

                      I think I speak it fairly well considering we didn't grow up with a single Armenian outside of our immediate family. Once every incredibley great while, when I speak with a relative in Cali, they impressed I speak it as fluentley as I do. So...yeah.....verchatza....

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