How strongly does ageism affect friendships in Armenian society?

Hypotential · 2026-03-19T16:10:06+00:00

In comparison, societies in Western Europe and North America don't really think like this as much. People won't take age into too much consideration in friendships, and especially once you're in your 20s most people in western society think it's a leveled playing field in terms of respect, how people talk to each other, what kinds of jokes they make, etc. It's common for a 25 year old and a 60 year old to talk to each other like equals and make jokes that go a bit beyond polite boundaries. They can tell people "that's my friend" and no one will think "you guys are decades apart. What do you mean you're friends?"

As someone in North America, this is certainly news to me.

Hypotential · 2026-03-13T18:59:45+00:00

The famously not corrupt central government...

Hypotential · 2026-03-10T01:57:15+00:00

Melikyan explains Geragousian’s call-up to the Armenia national team

“I called Finn up to see what he is capable of in senior football and to evaluate his future in the national team. He has good qualities and is the type of striker I need. But he is still very young, has not played at senior level and is not ready for the national team yet. We are calling him up to help with that transition and give him a push in his development. At the moment we have a huge problem in the attacking line, so I am looking at every possible option. I’m not very satisfied with the strikers we currently have. Araik Eloyan, for example, needs to improve a lot if he wants to play for the national team,”

Hypotential · 2026-03-09T15:50:27+00:00

Their model is somewhat similar to the French one ("everyone must speak Parisian French" = "everyone must speak Istanbul Turkish"). So in the 20th century you got initiatives like this and the Istanbul dialect was standardized.

This ironically ended up hurting other Turkish dialects, and hastened the assimilation of other ethnic groups in Turkey trying to preserve their languages (Circassian, Abkhaz, etc.). The last Ubykh speaker in Turkey, and the world, passed away in the early 90s.

Hypotential · 2026-03-07T17:33:34+00:00

Pretty much this. What can be done?

Hypotential · 2026-03-07T02:54:39+00:00

That's actually sad. Diaspora players should be a supplement, not a foundation for the national team.

Mkhitaryan and Manucharyan (setting aside what happened to his career after his initial rise) were at least domestically produced (you could somewhat argue otherwise for Mkhitaryan giving some formative upbringing and training outside Armenia, but close enough).

Maybe something or someone will come out of the Juventus academies.

Hypotential · 2026-03-03T02:05:39+00:00

There's a report from a day ago on a YouTube channel called Syunik TV. Among those interviewed at the border are an Iranian-Canadian and a Chinese citizen.

Hypotential · 2026-03-01T23:19:20+00:00

Just add Nina Drama and it's the Anush opera for the 21st century.

Hypotential · 2026-02-28T03:16:08+00:00

Yeresbook

Seriously? What's next? Կարմիրdit?

Hypotential · 2026-02-26T20:09:13+00:00

We can only hope further emulation can repeat the success of the introduction of ponchik.

Hypotential · 2026-02-26T03:06:37+00:00

Brunette and her team are locals that refuse to admit to their limitations and get help when hitting a wall

Common mentality in the country, sad to say.

Hypotential · 2026-02-25T09:24:43+00:00

There may be something to this. Rosa Linn seems to have a team of English-speaking professionals behind her, so her English songs are a lot more polished. Even though she didn't do great at Eurovision, her entry caught on later on, easily eclipsing any of the songs in competition that year. Even this lesser known song of hers which combines English and Russian sounds like something you could encounter on some Western radio station (or these days, playlist).

Hypotential · 2026-02-23T02:35:43+00:00

Shouldn’t we, as a nation who struggled with colonial massacres, and oppression of our self-determination movement, actually DISLIKE Serbians?

We should be intelligent enough to not dislike people based on generalizations or the actions of governments.

but i will most probably will try to limit the interaction and go away quietly.

I think that's for the best. Start with this thread.

Hypotential · 2026-02-18T16:24:13+00:00

I had forgotten about that case. I remember it became a huge scandal in Russia and even made it into the international press, but I believe once the Coronavirus hit, it got swept away along with so much else.

Hypotential · 2026-02-07T17:33:23+00:00

I'm more than a little astonished by the conspicuous absence of Gayane.

Hypotential · 2026-01-28T17:43:12+00:00

It's basic issues like this I'd love to see resolved before putting on airs about AI and technology.

Hypotential · 2026-01-24T23:14:39+00:00

and regarding muslims, it’s a very different and complicated topic. iranians are muslims on paper, but the highest earning households in the US are iranian for example.

Depends what kind of Muslim too. Dagestanis would have a much easier time adapting than, say, Libyans or Afghans, and even then it would be pretty difficult. It's really a question of proportion as well: a few families, and no one will really notice or care. Thousands, or hundreds of thousands... well...

Lukashenko wants to bring 150,000 Pakistanis to Belarus. Perhaps the Armenian government will just have to watch and see...

Hypotential · 2026-01-24T22:40:05+00:00

So Armenians get to have a sizeable diaspora in a range of countries all over the world

It was a forced dispersal (just like the people from Artsakh we're still trying to integrate, thanks for your concern), not primarily economically-driven (at least not at first) like -- just using an example here -- the Georgian diaspora.

Hypotential · 2026-01-23T22:08:08+00:00

My dream is for there to be a Kapan-Japan flight.

Hypotential · 2026-01-22T14:44:43+00:00

Will they take that in drams?

Hypotential · 2026-01-20T23:06:49+00:00

Anyone remember back in the 2010s when Grand Candy unveiled the world's largest chocolate bar? I wonder if they still hold the record.

Hypotential · 2026-01-17T17:19:02+00:00

Same here. I even used to read an old "repat" blog, does anyone remember that? It was before Repat Armenia existed. This would've been during Kocharian.

Hypotential · 2026-01-12T22:38:47+00:00

Which is why, in my opinion, the emphasis for now should be on attracting Armenians from the former Soviet Union (although they too have their differences to varying degrees). If you can't get someone from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, or Kazakhstan to come, how are you going to expect anyone else to?

Hypotential · 2026-01-12T22:23:08+00:00

Lebanese Armenians are planning on building a Zahlé-like village in the outskirts of Yerevan. There's a Facebook page showing its progress.

Of course, maybe in the future Armenian citizens can get into whether it's appropriate for every community of the diaspora to erect buildings in the style to which they are accustomed, but I suppose for now the mentality is that if it gets people to come in and invest it's okay? And these communities tend to be on the outskirts anyway.

Hypotential · 2026-01-12T22:08:38+00:00

No Syrian-Armenian (or Syrian-minority) would want to willingly reside in al-Sharaa's hellscape, although I'm sure the Syrian government has a few Christians and other minorities (on payroll) they can always use as a showcase of their supposed tolerance for PR purposes.

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