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Importance of Culture

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  • #11
    There was plenty of fighting that went on well before the advent of the nation state. Tribal warfare was not as deadly, because the scope was not as big and the technology not as destructive. Nonetheless, I think you know damn well that human factions have been fighting each other since written language first came along to record it.

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    • #12
      Of course, you are right to say that nationalism and politics do not help anything and only exacerbate the problem.

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      • #13
        That's not the point dillweed, it has not been the same, for people still interacted. The fighting that went on was between armies or mercenaries, not the entire population as nationalism and total war have done. Now we are at war with "Iraq" meaning all the Iraqis, that is why this country doesn't hesitate to use cluster bombs on civilians. Total war, nationalism, and nation-state, with their mass mindedness have created something unheard of before. Believe it or not there was "civilized warfare" prior to total war.
        Achkerov kute.

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        • #14
          You just said exactly the same thing that I said.

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          • #15
            i assume that loseyourname meant stupid stereotypes by saying ''culture"'...(if it's so loseyourname a agree with you 100%)by following stupid stereotypes takes us nowhere and even more it makes us to look ridiculus..
            Culture has different meaning for me though...
            Can you deny the greatest impact of Hellenic culture in western civilization stode in oreder to reach its current form...?
            Same goes to armenian culture... it makes us who we really are..our past ,present and future.., for me Armenian culture is ShirakaTsi,Horenatsi,Xachaturyan,Ashot yerkat,Komitas,Sayat_Nova(gusanakan arvest) and etc...Don't blend stereotypes with culture...they are NOT equtiable...
            I'm a monstrous mass of vile, foul & corrupted matter.

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            • #16
              I think lose is on a different page here.

              He’s talking about people, (Armenians I guess) who do not bother to explore outside their Niche. A lot of people stay inside certain boundaries, never attempting to explore anything outside of it, as they judge those who do. They live in borders, because they think certain actions are not of conventional cultural traditions.

              I think that people need to be able to view the world/life in a more objective manner, and not cling on to what they’ve been taught to be right or wrong.
              Decide on your own, choose what you want to believe, choose which side you want to take. There is no right or wrong, as long as it’s your decision and not someone else’s.

              So is that what you’re getting to or am I off?

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              • #17
                spiral exactly!!! but it has nothing to do with culture ...and giving enough place or room to ppl be free its a human problem ...that's all about freedom...and this word is provocative as fire. you don't have 2 eyelids in order to look freedom in the face...It's all about being free...Man is free,but not men... simple as ABC...There are no limits to freedom for one,there is no freedom for all.

                call it whatever u want boundaries,stereotypees,judjmental ,full of prejudice...it has nothing to do with culture i guess...or i might be wrong...
                I'm a monstrous mass of vile, foul & corrupted matter.

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                • #18
                  True, it has nothing to do with culture.

                  But some people do alter their individuality in the name of culture.


                  I myself find my culture to be inimitable.

                  I love everything about our culture. From our music, to our traditions, to our "figures of speech".


                  Though it does influence all of us in one way or another, I don’t allow cultural “dogmas” to direct my choices towards a direction other than that which I see fit.

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                  • #19
                    spiral exactly!!! but it has nothing to do with culture ...and giving enough place or room to ppl be free its a human problem ...that's all about freedom...and this word is provocative as fire. you don't have 2 eyelids in order to look freedom in the face...It's all about being free...Man is free,but not men... simple as ABC...There are no limits to freedom for one,there is no freedom for all.

                    call it whatever u want boundaries,stereotypees,judjmental ,full of prejudice...it has nothing to do with culture i guess...or i might be wrong...
                    Now,
                    the only thing I understood from this post was the first line.

                    Would you rephrase, or paraphrase please?

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                    • #20
                      Armenians that stick in their little niche are not the rule, but the exception. One cannot study the history of the Armenian peoples without studying the externalities and the other cultures that it was in contact with throughout the millenias, and how surprisingly it's survival is primarily BECAUSE of its interaction with the outside world, which is why they are resilient - able to draw on from many peoples and apply it to their own.
                      Achkerov kute.

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