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I'll get started right away.....

and the turks, mongols.

Early christinity existed in armenia:) We are the first christian state remember?

Todays armenian music is in need some serious HELP! I can't stand armenian music of today, like pop and new recorded stuff... some are good but the quality is far from good, of music that is sampeled ARMENIAN. I see no other option, I will take matters into my own hands, and create some good old fashioned armenian style music. I give you all my word. Something new, something old and something invented.

-Live - "i alone" -The Doors -Michael Jackson -Alex gopher -Led Zeppelin -Hovaness Badalian -Raisa Mkrchian -Rouben Hakhverdian -Chris Isaac- Wicked Game -Armenian Dance Music

tokh hangist odi tghan! lol... We have enough hollidays and food in armenia, but if you believe in Judaism then convert, I for one don't see what is so good about it, just look at israel.

Thank you angel! Karine

Kartses, duk sovatsek mnatsel??

There are many options, and one is to simply convert to judaism.

Hovaness Badalian, one of the best singers of vocal armenian folk music!!

I haven't been able to find sound clip on Schnittke(shnitsel:). I found out, though, that the armenian philharmonic were going to play one of his works (I believe it was the piano consert) celabrating the composers annivercery!! I can just say that it really depends on who is playing/what recording it is...as to how its going to sound in others ears, good or bad, especially when it comes to schnittke.

They were very a "original sounding" band. with armenian influcences + a little asian sounding stuff in my ears.. You just have to listen for youself

What is so good about jews that we should try to resemble according to you?

I was watching ice-dance and armenia has a very talanted couple dancing for them. Anastasia Grebenkina & Vazgen Azroyan http://www.ice-dance.com/profiles/armenia.html It was wonderful! ...and with an armenian music and beat to it, even the dance was armenian!! There are quite a few people with armenian heritage involved in ice skating, and one very talanted trainer to one of the figure skaters was armenian( and he had also armenian music for their show. Its very NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The music they used was Ara Gevorkian.Techno music with folk dance rythm to it. The swedish sport-journalists were saying they are often russian of heritage, those who play for different countries. Like for example those who play for armenia are russians. Yahooooo!? Plus the showed a big flag of azerbadjian when it was armenias time to dance. I just love Europe

Besides one exception.

Vigil, So you think that the armenians will be extinct from the face of earth? Will we eventuallly turn black?It is not as if we were all going to run off and marry someone who is african, or black now are we?Well, first of all, I don't see any chance of armenians "turning black".Second of all, we have survived as a nation for thousands of years, what makes you think that we will be extinct?You can't put the blame on one african american for OUR problems( wich is caused by years of opression, genocide and forced assimiltion) Have you been to armenia?Or have you been to Ethiopia. In ethiopia you can see armenians speaking their langauge, and in Armenia you can see africkans, who are mostly ethiopians, speaking perfect armenian! Cultural exchange is inevitable, armenians have always been a carrier of a tradition wich means interacting with people from other nations/ cultures,that is a pride that we have and what makes us armenian (historically and culturally speaking).

Whats ahead= x x.... CAPITALISM

Appearently from reading the messages in here I'v come to the conclusion that they are....

We are not like jews, we are armenians, that can't be discussed, we are different, for good or worse(!) And we should do all to keep our tradition, and culture alive. Did you see Atoms Egoyans film Ararat? Did he demolish the turks that they would look bad in peoples eyes? NO!He was pretty careful in portaiting the genocide on motion picture. (personlly i think it was well done) There is no way to defend what the turks did, I dont care how it will look in others eyes, but its time that people realize facts. The turks were brutally massacring people, just as the kurds were doing, and the fact is that the armenians were absolutly defensless against these people who halv of them were bandits, filthy fanatic scums. Not to mention that Turkey still continues to opress its minorites. This is not just a cause for armenians! Unfortunatly we seem to be pretty much alone in working towards a recognition for the genocide.

It is our duty as armenians to work for a recnognition world-wide, till that extent its possible. It's nothing we can ignore.

Ayo Cant you delete messages in here lol:)

Turkey will never admitt their crimes of genocide against the armenians. Such a thing would never accour, it means a great deal, if they would admit it, it would mean the end of the turkish state, and the end of kurdistan, and the end of many of armenia problems today.. Haha! Dream on...

I think you have a strange vision on how things really are in other countries, like armenia. Work harder to please a man? You assume that they just sit in armenia and wait for a rich armenian man to come and marry them? Maybe they have less materialistic standars but dont jump into conclusions. Lack of materialastic standars, doesnt nessarily mean that the only thing that is intestering to the girls is getting married and leaving the country. Dont nessarilty mean that they are unhappy. There is diffrent sort of people everywhere, the ones who are intrested not in just getting a MAN they can be depended on who will earn money for them, but they are intrested in life, and education and work. Armenians are a very hard working people. And the girls and women in Armenia I'd say has more brains and courage than the boys of armenia have shown themselves to have. Love doesnt have economical boundaries. if youre in love with someone, it doesnt really matter how much money he or she makes. Money isn't everything you know. Maybe you guys have lived too long in the US?

Huh. Heres the thing. In armenia lives a lot of armeníans. lol. So you want to marry someone armenian? where is the best place to go with lots of armenians u can meet armenia of course. So the guys go to armenia to find someone suitable they can marry. If they were as much good looking boys as there are girls(lool), Im sure the girls would pilgrimate to armenia as well!

Vai Nairi jan:) lol...Aram looks missplaced, with his american western hat.