Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

[jmm7]

just wondering...

I know an Armenian is so fun. We kind of like each other. But honestly, I am not sure this can work in the next stage, since I learned that Armenian people is not very open to other cultures.

any comments?

Thanks...

[jmm7]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

Never mind...
I've been reading some topics in this forum, and I just found out that you only like Armenians.

Weird.

[mindfreak]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

ur right

[jmm7]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

and sad.

This is America, there is nothing you can do to stop the new generation to become more open mind and "american".

But I respect all that and in someway try to understand

[Armanen]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

and sad.

This is America, there is nothing you can do to stop the new generation to become more open mind and "american".

But I respect all that and in someway try to understand

If you read Armenian history you will understand why it is so important for Armenians to keep their identity, best way of doing that is living in Armenia, second best, if an Armenian is outside of the Homeland, is to marry an Armenian.

See if Mexico or some other Latin country's people lost their country or even if the majority of Mexicans were wiped out, their culture and the remaining Mexicans would be able to continue in the many other Latin countries and still have more less the same culture. With Armenia that is not the case, none of our neighboring countries nor any other country for that matter resemble us enough for the above scenario to work for us.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

and sad.

This is America, there is nothing you can do to stop the new generation to become more open mind and "american".

But I respect all that and in someway try to understand

The world laughs at Americans because they have no identity... only Americans aren't aware of it.

[Folk]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

Rejecting somebody just because of his/her ethnic identity is nothing but racism. Armanen is right, Armenians suffered so much in their history. Yet, interracial marriages shouldn't be an obstacle for maintaining a culture. If there is respect to cultures, no problem then. Interracial marriages are not assimilations as long as partners can live their cultures how they want.

[Federate]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

Rejecting somebody just because of his/her ethnic identity is nothing but racism. Armanen is right, Armenians suffered so much in their history. Yet, interracial marriages shouldn't be an obstacle for maintaining a culture. If there is respect to cultures, no problem then. Interracial marriages are not assimilations as long as partners can live their cultures how they want.

It's not racism (the most loosely used term ever), it's survival. Most of the non-Armenians would not want to "become Armenian" therefore it is not acceptable. Either your partner will assimilate into being Armenian or nothing.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Any of you is married to a Mexican or Latin people?

Racism is when you deny someone rights or benefits, or give them preferential treatment based on their race.

Marrying someone within your own race/culture/ethnicity is not racism . Not only does it preserve culture, but it's a good way to ensure compatibility with respect to traditions and common upbringings of offspring.

[Anoush]

Racism is when you deny someone rights or benefits, or give them preferential treatment based on their race.

Marrying someone within your own race/culture/ethnicity is not racism . Not only does it preserve culture, but it's a good way to ensure compatibility with respect to traditions and common upbringings of offspring.

Very well put KanadaHye, Armanen and Federate. You each gave very good answers and your points well put and taken.

You see Jimm7 and Folk, our country unfortunately was build more than seven thousand years ago, we thaught the world calendars, agriculture, building structure and armaments. Our country was the cradle of civilization, intelligent little people but right in-between the crossroads between Asia and Europe, and because of it the barbaric mongolian turks and the seljuks charged in to our country constantly annihilating our people, the Greeks and the Babilonians/Assyrians and now we have such a small country called Armenia that it has merely 3 million people; the rest of us are in the Diaspora and we don't wish to be completely wiped-off from the face of the earth by not preserving ourselves, our culture and our blood. Since the 7 million of us live outside and most of our people were annihilated from 1915-1923 (more than 1.5 million of us) by the turkish government of the time, that gives us more reason to want to preserve our identity, our blood and our culture. The only way we could do this is by inter-marrying. However that does't mean that we don't help, like, befriend and respect other nationalities and or cultures; it just means that for the above good reasons we wish to preserve our identity as a nationality by intermarrying.

Jimm and Folk; For your information there are numerous Diasporan Armenians that marry outside of their nationalities anyhow. Not everyone tries to preserve their nationality. Many intermarry with Americans, Canadians, French, Spanish, Mexicans, Blacks, Arabs, J'ewish and the list goes on and on.