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nowaypablo  ·  3740 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trip! Report! Armenia!

A lot of that ferocity is built-in to our culture via our history, but you'll find that it's really present with Armenians living outside of Armenia. They're far more Armenia-loving than Armenians in Armenia, but they may not have even been in the country before.

I like to think I'm not an asshole about it because I have certainly met my share of ferocious Armenians, i.e. I'm not gonna spit in a Turkish guy's face cause of a hundred-year-old genocide that he had nothing to do with. I still may mention Armenia often in a conversation but that's just cause I really do personally love the country and I've learned a lot there. It's a shaky situation. eh.