sarsher101 Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 One question has been in my mind ever since i came to us. Almost all Armenians take the day off on april 24th of every year. they claim to protest and ask for our rights. however, does our fight only limit to that specific day? if so then shame on us. we are good in prtesting in front of the trukish embassy only one day and rest look for our fun for the rest of the year. My suggestion is if you are a student, missing one day of your school means you missed one day to tell your friends and teachers and your fellow students about the Massacer that turks did to us. and you also missed one day of education which gives the them confidence that our armenian students arn't educated enough to fight for their rights in the future. if you are a businessman, don't take the day off, rather work and donate your profit of that day to armenian charities. If you think they don't deserve, then keep your money but make some on that day. why? because thats gonna be money saved in an armenian family which may be useful in the future for the whole armenian society. if you don't work or study and live at home always, try to tell people about the armenian genocide rather than prtesting. explain it to them with proven facts. and if you don't know about it, i think its better that you sit on that day and learn about it rather than protesting for an unkwon reason. If you are responding and you are a member of the ANCA then save my and ur time by knowing that ANCA did no good in getting our rights back. Its members are just happy to have that lobby in the white house and are enjoying their lives with the Hye Azk's money donated to them to do their jobs. I know the gomide member who travles to armenia every 3 months on the gomide's account. all he does is make more and more songs and sell concert tickets to Armenians. the Cause? self interest. If you are working for the Armenian cause then think before you work, because you might screw it up more than it already is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=VAHE=- Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 See Sarsher jan most of what your saying is logical but it won't play out that way and then April 24th will turn into just another day. No money would be donated and one day of no school doesn't mean kids aren't going to be educated. I just wish they would stop celebrating as a Armenian Pride day which it is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarsher101 Posted August 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I know what you mean Vahe. Also when i say one day of school i know it won't but the point is. We have i don't know how many million armenians in us. almost 3/4 of the youth in here don't speak, read, write english at all. and some do but don't want too. it is an unfortunate fuct and i really get hurt to see that. in this free country no armenian wants to learn his or her language. I assure you that in the more concervative countries such as middle east and some parts of europe it is prohibited to teach other languages without the concent of the dep. of education. and despite that, people still teach and they have better armenian learners than in here. there are a lot of rich armenians in this country, however, each one of them is bussy filling more green in his/her pockets. why do we even claim to be armenian if our most valuable attitude(helping each other) has already been extinguished. instead of educating our kids the cuase of april 24 and telling them to explain it to the world in a rather political point of view, we try to go to the old way of protesting which doesn't bring us a fortune. see things start with one or two people then the whole population knows about it. if 300 million people in us and only 2 million of them know about april 24 then it is no use but there is benefit if those 2 million people start spreading and educating the rest of the people about our cause, then in hopefuly 3-4 years we will acheive our goals. and we would have more votes to come up with a good politician who fights for our rights. and how does this happen? through educating... educating... educating our young generations and creating strong bases for our cause. see jewish people started their journy and finished it why because they increased their supporters by explaining to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=VAHE=- Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I think you man 3/4ths don't kow how to write Armenian. Armenians are pretty much leting everyone know trust me. I don't know how they could improve on that. But one thing I think Armenian parents should do is put all their children through atleast a couple years of Armenian School as horrible as it is for the kids.( I went through it. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarsher101 Posted August 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 But see thats the problem man. armenian schools are too expensive. people can not afford it. and in usa they don't let somebody study for free in those schools. thats our biggest problem in education. if you go to other countries, armenian schools provide free study for those who can not afford and they charge the church for it. and the church pays for them from the charities and donations they get from rich people. over here there is no such a thing. if you don't have 3000 dollars a month, you don't have armenian education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=VAHE=- Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 (edited) See my elementary school offered Armenian school and it wasn't all that expensive and I 'm pretty if the Church isn't doing that then they will soon start. Edited August 27, 2004 by Vahe G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Bark Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 at least a couple years of Armenian School as horrible as it is for the kids.( I went through it. ) Could you elaborate please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgm1975 Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 I have two memories of April 24th rallies as a child that I did not forget. 1) In Armenian school in Montreal, we naturally had April 24th off. The teachers would always insist (if not coerce) that the students go to the April 24th rally in Ottawa. Yet the teachers would not show up. Instead they would take the opportunity to take the day off. Talk about hypocrisy. 2) In Paris in 1987, Armenians were gathering around the Place the l'Étoile to march towards the Turkish embassy. One thing that struck me was that all Armenians were not assembling at the same spot. There were 2-3 separate and distinct gathering spots. I asked my mother why that was the case and was told that "the Armenians over here are Dashnaks while the Armenians over there are Ramkavars". My reaction was a sarcastic and cynical "wow". Needless to say, I have not been to any April 24th rally since 1989. Yelling "Echec Millet Turk Millet" in the streets of a major Western capital will not feed a single hungry child in Armenia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarsher101 Posted August 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 I completely agree with you. Its unfortunate that we claim we are united although tashnaks and ramgavars, and hnchiagians are all seperated in this sad event. each one is claiming to be the right party. and 100% agree that by calling those names to turks we don't feed any single child in armenia. but the fact of the matter is that people still do it and when you come to critisize them, they say you are not armenian and shame on you and start talking all this bs. so I think it is time that we give up all this bull shet and start acting as if we really want to get the genocide recognized in the worl. remember it is not a muscle war it is a brain war. and we lack that now days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koko Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Armenia has a good educational system at least what ive seen of it, send your kids to school in armenia, and your problem would be solved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=VAHE=- Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 Could you elaborate please? style_images/master/snapback.png Elaboate? As in why it is horrible? It was horrible because I didnn't go to to a Armenian school that taught everything. I went to the Armenian schools that you would go to after going to a regular american school. Armenian school never had summer breaks for us. The teachers were nice but at that time it just sucked being there. Now when I think about it I see how good it was that I went but when your a kid your just that, a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 Armenia has a good educational system at least what ive seen of it, send your kids to school in armenia, and your problem would be solved! style_images/master/snapback.png Unfortunately it is no longer the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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