Intermarriage

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by sSsflamesSs Adam, are you even comprehending what I'm writing? Can you stop with the assumptions, please?

EMBRACING DIVERSITY DOES NOT MAKE ONE RACIST. THOSE CRIMES THAT YOU SPEAK OF ARE ONLY DONE IN THE NAME OF RACISM.

They are done because people see themselves as distinct ethnic groups that need to be protected from the scrourge of other ethnic groups. Whether or not you are racist, and whether or not your children are racist, keeping small, distinct ethnic groups fosters this. Just look at the people around here. Half of them admitted to being racists. If they were the huge mix of ethnicities that I am, I can guarantee you they would not be. It's hard to be a racist when you have no race other than human.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname And? Who said I wanted to force people to intermarry? You're ignoring me again, and arguing with US policy. I do not support US policy.

I'm not ignoring you, Im addressing you exactly by stating diversity leads to a lack of diversity.

[loseyourname]

You are foolish to think that only an Armenian can understand you. You are more than an Armenian. You are an individual women with individual needs and desires that go beyond that of a nation, and there may very well be a man out there who connects with some very deep part of you that recognizes no ethnic constraints, and you know what? He may or not be Armenian. It makes no difference.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by Anonymouse I'm not ignoring you, Im addressing you exactly by stating diversity leads to a lack of diversity.

Only individualism leads to diversity. Pick a partner according to ethnicity rather than individual desire and connection, there goes your diversity.

[sSsflamesSs]

Originally posted by loseyourname You are foolish to think that only an Armenian can understand you. You are more than an Armenian. You are an individual women with individual needs and desires that go beyond that of a nation, and there may very well be a man out there who connects with some very deep part of you that recognizes no ethnic constraints, and you know what? He may or not be Armenian. It makes no difference.

I highly doubt that.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by sSsflamesSs I highly doubt that.

Have you ever even been in love? How much do you really know?

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname You are foolish to think that only an Armenian can understand you. You are more than an Armenian. You are an individual women with individual needs and desires that go beyond that of a nation, and there may very well be a man out there who connects with some very deep part of you that recognizes no ethnic constraints, and you know what? He may or not be Armenian. It makes no difference.

Well obviously love ( whatever that means ), transcends race, culture, religion. Just as there might be someone outside of Armenians that may understand me, there is also someone Armenian who will, and in fact quite more in the latter. Language conveys something more than just words, so when you speak, it goes deeper into something psychic. I often find myself, when talking with Armenians, not using entire words to convey what I mean, yet they understand it. This may sound bullxxxx and superstitious since there is no evidence by my own personal awareness of this, it might be looked upon as bullxxxx. In Armenian there is a saying that "Aryoonuh joor chi darna", and the closest English translation I can give of that is that blood does not turn into water. It means that we are a product of what we were raised and born into. I do not deny what you state either, however more leaning to my explanation.

[sSsflamesSs]

Originally posted by loseyourname Have you ever even been in love? How much do you really know?

No, I have not, and it would be foolish of me to try and define what love is. As far as your argument goes, from my life experience, I have only been able to relate with Armenians on the spiritual level. I can't predict the future, but my stance stands.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname Only individualism leads to diversity. Pick a partner according to ethnicity rather than individual desire and connection, there goes your diversity.

That is just silly, since it is an exercise of our will who we choose. And if our comfort zone is within us, we pick someone who is more similar to us, thus we seek friends and lovers who understand us, similarities, not differences. Of course we choose individuals since we can't choose the mass, that's a given. The whole "opposites attract" is silly.

[loseyourname]

All I can say is my parents are as ethnically distinct as two people you will ever see, and they still manage to keep the most successful marriage I have ever seen, with gorgeous, bright, and promising children who are as colorblind as any.