Interracial Relationships.

[ckBejug]

Only in wishful thinking is that possible.

Wrong. It's possible in practice and I know a few people who are living proof of that, their children are quite possibly more Armenian in mind and spirit than a lot of Armenians and their non-Armenian partners have gone so far as to learn Armenian, reading and writing.

[Anonymouse]

They are diluted hybrids. Can anyone seriously call a mulatto "Armenian"? What I said earlier. You can be culture bearing, but not culture creating.

[Tres Bien]

this is higly individual , if you are aware of youre armenian heritage than automatically youre children will become too, if you choose to marry a non armenian.

its because of unawareness of the armenian identity that people vanish from armenianess.

[dusken]

They are diluted hybrids. Can anyone seriously call a mulatto "Armenian"? What I said earlier. You can be culture bearing, but not culture creating.

Sorry man, but "blacks" and "jews" do it all the time.

Call a mulatto an Armenian? Well, the mulatto might call him or herself that. You would not, though.

[dstyle]

It's also interaction. I know a few interbred people that consider them Armenians, that's cool but thats the exception not the rule.

[Anonymouse]

Blacks have nothing to fear of mixing. In fact none of the darker races do. Their genes are dominant. Whites, and Armenians in this case are recessive.

[violette829]

I think you all should lighten up and go see my thread about Best Foreplay Songs.

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!

[dusken]

Blacks have nothing to fear of mixing. In fact none of the darker races do. Their genes are dominant. Whites, and Armenians in this case are recessive.

It is not a matter of fear. You said that there cannot be "culture-creating" and I gave a couple of significant examples where this is not true. It is many a time that someone who is half Jewish would adopt Jewish culture and someone who is half black would adopt black "culture." The mentality of alienation is what stunts contribution to culture.

[patlajan]

You might not be able to do it, but you're wrong, it IS possible.

Yes, you can go uphill on foot pushing a 100 pound weight too. It doesn't meat it's worth it. Forcing Armenian culture down the throats of kids who are only half Armenian is possible but not worth the trouble.

[angelik22]

okay, one small idea-- if culture is only socially based and genetics - as some of you asy doesnt paly a hueg role- then if i live in china for a year and feel like im a true asian and adapt their ways and culture- therefore im chinese? and then if i decide to marry a Nigerian and adapt his true ways of life and culture therefore i am nigerian? of my children are Nigerian? i think that genetics plays a huuuuuge role in culture, wel society does too, but genetics are the base root of culture itself--i know that there are a few people who are married to a non armenian, and their kids know wel about their armenian culture, but they dont call themselves armenian, when people ask them- where are you from, they reply- my mom is so and so and my dad is so and so-- they are not full armeians- not that that s a bad thing, but the child is the product of merging of two differnt cultures, not just socially, but genetically- IMO if the genes arent fully there, then they cannot be called full armenian, because they are not-- but i do understand that they can act armenian and adapt our ways, but its just not the same as the rela thing- its like painting a donkey black, teaching it how to be like a horese and trying to call it a stallion-- but this isnt possible, because once the paint fades away, the donkey is still a donkey-- not that im calling mixed people donkies ehre- if u catch my drift