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106. They also look Armenian...

Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:15 PM

Apr 2013

The younger one looks exactly like an Armenian boy I knew in college. The older brother looks like a Persion guy I knew in NY.

They could be a mix of anything....like most of us are. It's not what they look like but what in their background and growing up environment that influenced their lives in the direction they took. Trying to peg them into an ethnic loyalty seems harsh.

Also the parents of the Armenian boy I know in college disliked the Turks (you can understand why given the Turkish slaughter of Armenians). They always prided themselves on their Armenian recipes (they were excellent cooks) and they were thrilled to finally be able to visit the town in Turkey their grandparents/parents came from before they fled to America. They thought it was really funny to find out all their great Armenian Recipes handed down were Turkish Cooking and NOT Armenian.

So...things can turn out kind of mixed up between ethnic heritage and where one lives for awhile and what they identify with.

Just saying....

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