I just "love" topics like that ..lol
For me "Armenian" is no longer something that means ethnic heritage, or a unique Indo-Europian language. It's a state of a mind, heart, beliefe, call it whatever you
want.
I do not deny the fact that our ethnic type has changed, our language has changed, but not as much as some of you say. All those people who became a "salad", and continued to change, called themselves Armenians, they did, because there still was a "union"
The modern Tatars look 80% different from what they looked like 200 years ago.So? They are still Tatars, with their language, culture, etc.
Because there' s an indea that unites them and makes them a nation