If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

[One-Way]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

but I'm not gonna go out of my way to search for a bride in Armenia

Do you live in Armenia?

If not, why do you have to "search for a bride in Armenia?" What's wrong with finding an Armenian girl where you live?

[ara87]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

Do you live in Armenia?

If not, why do you have to "search for a bride in Armenia?" What's wrong with finding an Armenian girl where you live?

That was in reference to Aramanen's comment about there being "plenty of Armenian women in the homeland" and just people saying it in general as joke(or seriously) "We're going to go find you a nice girl from Armenia"

But I'd have to search anyways, b/c there's not that many Armenian girls around my age group here in Dallas, and the next nearest group of Armenians are in Houston, and lets just say they're just to Houstony. And by "searching for one in Armenia" I mean searching in general. Why does it matter how far I go, whether it be Houston, L.A., Dearborn, or Yerevan? Why should I have to go search for an Armenian bride when there are there are a million suitable odar's right outside my doorstep? I'm not saying that I'm not going to try and find an Armenian necessarily, but if I happen to meet an odar and we hit it off, I'm not going to shed any tears over the fact that she isn't Armenian

[One-Way]

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But I'd have to search anyways, b/c there's not that many Armenian girls around my age group here in Dallas, and the next nearest group of Armenians are in Houston, and lets just say they're just to Houstony. And by "searching for one in Armenia" I mean searching in general. Why does it matter how far I go, whether it be Houston, L.A., Dearborn, or Yerevan? Why should I have to go search for an Armenian bride when there are there are a million suitable odar's right outside my doorstep? I'm not saying that I'm not going to try and find an Armenian necessarily, but if I happen to meet an odar and we hit it off, I'm not going to shed any tears over the fact that she isn't Armenian

I understand, I just don't understand people who go to Armenia specifically to find a girl. From the very few I've spoke to, they claim the girls in Armenia are much "better" in the sense that they're more Armenian, whatever that means, and they're cleaner.

I'm only 21, but I grew up knowing I was going to end up with an Armenian. Even in high school, I didn't avoid hanging out with other races, and I didn't try to hang out with just Armenians. I always found myself with Armenian people and now I've been with my girlfriend for almost 2 years.

I guess I agree with Armenian when he said:

The point is, you try your best to marry an Armenian without thinking about - what nationality would I chose if I can't find a compatible Armenian to marry.... Once you begin going your route, you are more than half way there in marrying a non-Armenian.

Whatever you people do, it's your choice, and I won't call it right or wrong. I just hate it when I see people who don't acknowledge the fact that they're Armenian. They marry outside their race and their children aren't raised Armenian. I disagree with that much.

[ara87]

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yeah i guess armenian is right, but i wasn't kidding when i said there were barely any armenian girls here my age. I'm 20, and lets just make my age group 17-25 that's like 10 girls, and i just happen to be related to 2 of them. Even for the girls trying to find boys though, it's maybe another 10. And most of them are related too. So the searching the becomes a necessity. I think this is why so many people go to sports weekend

[MrHyeSev]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

ara maybe you need to Stop searching then you will find someone, go down that path for a while.

[yerazhishda]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

yeah i guess armenian is right, but i wasn't kidding when i said there were barely any armenian girls here my age. I'm 20, and lets just make my age group 17-25 that's like 10 girls, and i just happen to be related to 2 of them. Even for the girls trying to find boys though, it's maybe another 10. And most of them are related too. So the searching the becomes a necessity. I think this is why so many people go to sports weekend

Quoted for truth.

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Why is it so bad if you go to Armenia looking for bride? Even if that's your first priority? I'm not talking about going to try and find a Russian-style 'mail order bride' just a nice Armenian girl from the villages or maybe even Yerevan if she hasn't completely embraced Western values. We discriminate in the opposite sex every time we look at them: their looks, their intelligence, etc. Why not on their ethnicity? This is the only way to perpetuate the Armenian culture and Republic.

[Kavkaz]

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French or Italian, Georgian, North Caucasian

When someone says That only Armenian, the fact is not all Armenians who claim they are Armenian are Armenians. Many are Assyrians, Yezdis, xxxs.

I would only marry someone of European decent.

[Palavra]

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Hmm. I can understand people who choose a girl because of her beauty, her money, her good personality but I do not understand a guy who choose girl because of his own nationality..

You guys should learn meaning of family and aim of family.. It is stupid to waste a life for a nation which will extinct at future..

[ara87]

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You guys should learn meaning of family and aim of family.. It is stupid to waste a life for a nation which will extinct at future..

Technically, we'll all be extinct in the future. But as far as Armenians being extinct in the near future goes, we're older than half the nationalities on earth, and we're still here. I don't think we're going anywhere anytime soon

ara maybe you need to Stop searching then you will find someone, go down that path for a while.

I'm not searching. I don't plan to get married for a long while. I'm just saying that when I do why should I have to search if there's no suitable Armenian girls nearby but there's a nice odar one? You all put to much emphasis on how hard it will be to raise the kid Armenian. My father was basically an odar when he met my mom, and didn't even know Armenian until after he married her. His parents, both Armenians and children of genocide survivors, raised him and his siblings to be "American first" and didn't even want me and my siblings to have Armenian names, on the other hand there's quite a few interracial marriages within my family in which the kids are just as Armenian, if not more Armenian, than me, so marrying an odar and having Armenian kids can work. I mean obviously if i meet a girl who is disapproving of foreign things deep down, thinking of them as second rate, that's not gonna be someone i would choose to marry and have kids with. But there are other people who don't mind cultural exchange in relationships, there are some people who even seek it

[Palavra]

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I was not talking about near future but is It important If armenians or turks survived 1000 year or 100 year more? After all, at future noone will remember them..