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According to the American Census Bureau of 2000, your statistics are wrong; 132,583 Armenians live in the United States (that includes American citizens of Armenian ancestry). Your Western Hemisphere statistic is correct. Also, 11 million Armenians exist worldwide.

first, the Hurris lived in Armenia. Eventually the Hurri tribes combined to form the Hurrians. Later on, the Hurrians established the state of Mitanni. When the Mitanni nation fell, the Urartu, whose language and religion was similar to the Hurrian, established the Urartu nation 6000 years ago. The Urartu are of the Hurrian race and absorbed the Hurrians in their culture. When the nation of Urartu collapsed, the Armenians migrated to modern-day Armenia. They absorbed the urartu in their culture. Scientists do not know where the migrators came from. They had flaming red hair (smetimes blonde) and blue eyes. they had the same eye shape as the Urartu and Hurrians. If anyone's intersted, here rae a few fun facts about the Urartu and Hurrians: the Urartu called themselves "Biaini". Note that we Armenians now have the girl name "Biana". "Urartu" was what the Assyrians called thembecause they worshipped the famous mountain in Armenia. Then the ancient Hebrews injected the "ah" sound into the word "Urartu" to obtain the word "Ararat", which is the orogin of the word "Mount Ararat". Urartu and Hurrian do not fit into any language family. They are very similar to Magyazar, the Hungarian language. In fact, the Hungarians claim to come from the "Subar" (not the car "Subaru"), which are an ancient people. the Subar claim to have come ffrom aplace in modern-day Armenia. The word "choban", among many other words shared by the languages, means "shepherd" in both Hungarian, Hurrian, Urartean, and Armenian. One Hurrian invention was the ligh spoked-wheel chariot. The Hurrians' highest god was the weather-god. he drove two bulls named "Seri" and "Huri", meaning "day" and "night". In Armenian, "hurri" has a differnet meaning; it means "little fire". Even though "hurri" means different things in both languages, consider that fire can be an act of nature, and the ancient Hurrians attributed it to their weather-god, who drove the two bulls, one of them being named "Hurri". Note the names of the two bulls, "Hurri" and "Seri", and note the fact that we have the girl names "Serine" and "Hurik". In the Hurrian and Urartu languages, the word "yuri" means "lord". Recall that we have a man's name "Yuri" or "Yurik". Armenians are not the only ones who have Hurrian ancestors. Finns, Hungarians, Kurds, and Georgians,. among many also have Hurrian ancesters. In fact, the Svaneti of georgia are descendants of and have beliefs na dculture (including religion) much like that of the Hurrians. however, the Svaneti are not exclusively Hurrian in terms of ancesrty, but rather significantly Georgian. The Hurrians were assmilated into many ethnic groups. The only group of people who look, act, and come from the Hurrians are the Hayasha of Mount Ararat. Note the word 'Hay" in "Hayasha". they look much like modern-day Armenians. Also, the Hurrians first appeared in Mount Ararat, but later migrated and expended to other parts of the world. So, Armenia was their homeland. The Urartu,unlike the Hurrians, generated only the Armenians. Remember that when I talk about the Hurrians and Urartu, don't react negatively because I am not talking about another people, I am talking about us. The reason that many modern-day Armenians look Middle Eastern is beacuse Armenians were under attack throughout most of their history by Muslims. during these times of war and attack, Arabs and Turks took in some Armenian women as their wives. This small number of attacks caused us to have dark hair and eyes. This does not mean that we have many Muslim ancestors. It is only the fact that the genes for dark hair and eyes are dominant over light hair and eyes. Although my hair is now brown, it is bright red in all my childhood photos. My little sister was born with white-blonde hair, which turned bright orange, then bright red. Later on, i became almost all brown, but a few years ago, it started turning blonde again. now the top two-thirds of every hair is brown and the bottom third is blonde. She probably got it from my mother, who was a white-blonde in early childhood and a golden-blonde later on. The whole red hair thing might be insignificant, but i is a physical resemblance to the migrators that came after the Urartu. Just for the record, i don't care about having red hair, it is simply a reminder to us of our ancestor's physical appearance. By the way, in cas you got the wrong impression of me, I am not the type of person who cares about the racial classification of our ethnic group. Remember, race is diffrent from ethnicity. Ethnicity is simply ancestral nationality, while race is ancestral appearance. Also, the Urartu civilization government headquaters were around Lake Van, which provviedes the word root for the word 'lake Sevan".