What do you guys think? Armenian w/ non-Armenian?

[ArmoBarbi]

Breeding machine is such an old thing...you shouldn't worry about these standards in your own life. My grand mother used to tell me I have child bearing hips, and when she found out that I had my menarchy she started hugging me. Who in our generation thinks this way??

You know as well as I do that you are free to have as many children as you like including 0. Save yourself the stress, and just ignore anyone who tries to inforce such old world standards upon you. It's not your problem.

[thedebutante]

Hate to say it, but I despise nationalism in all of its guises. Cultural appreciation is one thing, but some of you take it to a pathological level. So much of your life shouldn't be determined by the last name you were born with. You act as if there is some boundary in genetic space, beyond which sequence variation marks someone as different from you, and within which they are marked as the same. Is the claim to being within this genetic space that you arbitrarily round "Armenia" into really more a claim than the claim to simply being human or even to simply being you? I wish sometimes that I could experience the world like Hellen Keller, defining people by their actions and beliefs, not by what they look like and what language comes out of their mouth.

Silly me.

maybe you can show up to the next forum meeting with a black chick instead of the white one you were with to prove this point. woohoo!

[Anonymouse]

This thread is definitely missing some jelly beans! Who likes jelly beans? I DOOOOO!

[thedebutante]

It all comes down to having children. If you knew for sure that together with a non-Armenian (I don't like the word otar) spouse you could raise children who would be no less Armenian (culturally) than with an Armenian spouse and would be a full continuation of the Armenian culture and race, then there is no problem whatsoever. However, in lue of the fact that we're close to being in the red book of endangered cultures and most of us already live outside Armenia with the risk of losing our ties to our culture, the need to have children with other Armenians is not rooted in racism or even nationalism, but in the desire to see our tribe survive the next 1000 years and God willing more. We don't want to be the next Assyrians, a proud yet dwindling spec on this planet.

araaaa! i thought you were a true rabiz. guess not. anyway, i'm gonna start a new forum rumor. karoaper sounds a lot like mouse with this post. hmm...

[Anonymouse]

araaaa! i thought you were a true rabiz. guess not. anyway, i'm gonna start a new forum rumor. karoaper sounds a lot like mouse with this post. hmm...

I don't think he's like me because I actually like jelly beans!

[thedebutante]

As far as the population of Armenians is concerned, I will say this:

I was not born to be a breeding machine for ANYONE. If Armenians want to sustain and increase in population, maybe they should STOP KILLING EACHOTHER. How about this? Let's do something about the damn "so called govt" in Armenia to MAYBE...JUST MAYBE take care of the couples who give birth....Some European countries are doing this..but us..OH NO.

As selfish as this sounds, I will not sacrifice my own happiness for anything...I have gone back and forth about my opinions on the matter, and it wasn't until recently, when I started dating an ODAR (from outer space?), that I realize that it doesn't really matter to me.

Thank God I have an understanding family..I know it'll be difficult...but which relationship is free of dilemma? NONE!

holla .

[Anonymouse]

No one said you should be a breeding machine. Unless I missed an earlier post. If you know for sure you can't be happy with an Armenian male, then no one in their right mind would blame you for seeking personal happiness in life by marrying a non-Armenian. However, is it wrong to ask our people to seek happiness amongs us? I certainly don't think so.

Comrade Stalin agrees with you, Comrade.

[violette829]

I love it when people completely MISS MY POINT. I wasn't talking about being a breeding machine in GENERAL. I was talking about marrying an Armenian JUST TO HAVE ARMENIAN CHILDREN! That, to me, is just stupid.

[karoaper]

araaaa! i thought you were a true rabiz. guess not. anyway, i'm gonna start a new forum rumor. karoaper sounds a lot like mouse with this post. hmm...

VAKH kuro jan, aghachumem indz muki het ch@ shpotes. Es arnet em ARRNET.

I don't think he's like me because I actually like jelly beans!

Yes yes, I hate jelly beans. But I do like bean jelly. YUMMMMM!

Comrade Stalin agrees with you, Comrade.

And I agree with Comrade Stalin, even though he's a genocidal maniac. Although I agree more with Lenin Papi.
--PIONERRI GOTOVI.
--VSEGDA GOTOVI. URAAAAAA! URAAAA! URAAAAA!

I love it when people completely MISS MY POINT. I wasn't talking about being a breeding machine in GENERAL. I was talking about marrying an Armenian JUST TO HAVE ARMENIAN CHILDREN! That, to me, is just stupid.

Too bad you're a woman and have to do what we men say. MUHAHAHAHAHA. Ok that was joke btw. Please don't kill me. Now go and pop Armo babies out, woman!!!!

[CatWoman]

I love it when people completely MISS MY POINT. I wasn't talking about being a breeding machine in GENERAL. I was talking about marrying an Armenian JUST TO HAVE ARMENIAN CHILDREN! That, to me, is just stupid.

Marrying an Armenian to have Armenian children doesn't make you a breeding machine it just helps to preserve our culture.



I'm determined to marry an Armenian, but if I don't, my kids are still going to go to Armenian schools and grow up Armenian no matter what.