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

[Inthemood]

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

I would probably marry a girl from Kazakistan or Uzbekistan.

[Pazooki]

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

Lol for a second there you almost scared me jgk lol

[jgk3]

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

enjoying yourself, laughing with a portion of our blood flowing through your veins?

Step 2 would be to associate that blood with an Armenian voice.

[Palavra]

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

Odds are that the "Turk" we are talking about is really Greek and/or Armenian, genetically anyway.

[Anush]

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

AnushA26 agree on everything you said. You are an excellent person a TRUE Armenian gale.

Thank you Azad for your very nice comment!!

[Azad]

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

AnushA26 agree on everything you said. You are an excellent person a TRUE Armenian gale.

[Anush]

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

What about a Turk?

If an Armenian learned how to speak Japanese would that make him/her Japanese, and would the Japanese accept him/her as such?? I dont think so.

Regarding the initial "If you couldnt" question, in reality If I ever married there doesnt seem to be any lack of Armenian men in the society in which I live so its really not a realistic question for me.

BUT if I lived somewhere that there was a lack of an Armenian community I think it would be very difficult to marry an odar.

Even though I have been raised here in the states I have been raised in a very traditional family and would like to be able to raise children in the same manner in which I was raised. I would want my family to be united in nationality, language, culture, tradition and lets face it a way of life that in a traditional home is different from that of most odar.

I know people in mixed marriages of various combinations and unfortunatly what I have witnessed is not always a marriage of continued happiness after the initial newness wears off. Family pressures from both sides play on the emotions of both people, differences in tradition, culture, language seem to errupt into obsticles that cant be overcome. I am not saying this happens in all mixed marriages, but in general this is what I have witnessed.

I consider myself to be open minded, "worldly", educated and tolerant of others and most of the people that I associate would fall into that category as well. We might be the people that some say are too americanized, but at our cores and in our heart of hearts we stay within our people, we value what our parents have handed down to us, we are proud of who we are and we stay together as such.

These issues may not be the issues that others consider as important when seeking a partner outside thier own race and culture, it is just my own opinion.

[Azad]

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

The answer is simple, I would marry a Swedish girl ofcourse. Sweden is a great place where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

As I agree with you ... certain things should not be said to offend the opposite sex of our race. Your comment is as offensive as the gale that is happy humping a Polish guy.

[TheGreat]

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

The answer is simple, I would marry a Swedish girl ofcourse. Sweden is a great place where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

[jgk3]

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

Anon implies that it is more important to satisfy the requirements of racial and cultural continuity than to repatriate. Repatriating just allows you to live in an environment or join a cause that could help you reach the former end perhaps, or to satisfy one's sentiment of nationalism. Though as he previously stated, he has a relative from Yerevan who chose to marry a Russian and this choice somehow managed to cripple the Armenian-ness that he wished to pass down on his children. This isn't necessarily what happens when you marry an odar, but the fact that it turned out this way, in Yerevan, should be rather eye-opening.