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<\/a>My City has the highest Armenian population in the nation... the NATION!!! According to the Census.<\/p><\/div>\n
I’ve had Armenian friends & once even had it out with an Armenian grandfather who felt HE was entitled, for whatever reason was in his addled head, to double park in from of the Kindergarten to pick up his charge blocking the flow of traffic.\u00a0 I’ve worked for Armenians and I’ve been a customer of Armenians.<\/p>\n
And I understand the need to cling to your culture when you are new in a new land and when you are displaced.\u00a0 But I beg of you to DROP the arrogance.\u00a0 The “I am Armenian, we are better than ALL of you” is truly, truly annoying.\u00a0 And worse, watching your children be the bullies in school because they are raised with the attitude that EVERYONE who isn’t Armenian is below, beneath, less, than them.\u00a0\u00a0 I know.. the bullies in my school district, every one of them, are Armenian.\u00a0 I’ve had my sons point them out in the class photos.\u00a0 And I’ve seen the boasting when I’ve helped out in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Lucky for my Evan Armenians run skinny the day he decided he’d had enough and fought back.\u00a0 He out-weighed them by at least 50-60 lbs.<\/p>\n
The point to this rant?\u00a0\u00a0 My middle school son last week went to get his bike from the bike rack at school and it was gone.\u00a0 I went to the school & was told they’d handle it then I was off to SF for a conference.\u00a0 Of course, it wasn’t handled by the time I returned.\u00a0 So I finally talk to the vice-principle & she says the boy who was found with it claimed it was his when challenged.\u00a0 But couldn’t describe it to her whereas Evan could so it was deemed his and he came home with it.<\/p>\n
I emailed her telling her I think his parents should be informed that upon finding an unlocked bike at school he just arbitrarily decided he would take it, that it was his.\u00a0 If ANY of my kids EVER had that crazy idea in their heads I’d like to know it!\u00a0 I wouldn’t want the school to cover it up as “resolved”.\u00a0 But I get an email back from her saying just that.\u00a0 That they considered the matter resolved.<\/p>\n
I’m so tempted to file a police report… because with THIS attitude in a middle schooler, how long until he’s just ‘taking’ cars because he fancies them.\u00a0\u00a0 Except I’d rather not waste the cops time.<\/p>\n
Do I know this boy is Armenian?\u00a0\u00a0 No, actually they won’t tell me nor Evan anything about the boy.\u00a0\u00a0 But other cultures are raised with the sense that if you see a thing and know its not yours and you take it, its called THEFT.\u00a0\u00a0 And if most are going to commit theft… they are NOT going to ride it back to school the next time they are in school and claim its theirs!\u00a0 But Arrogance will.<\/p>\n
Nationality is one thing but if it leaves your child slightly Alienated in your adopted country you do them a disservice.\u00a0\u00a0 Worse if it leaves them a reputation of untrustworthiness.\u00a0 And sadly that is the reputation amongst my other friends of my city’s Armenians.<\/p>\n
Caveat to all these facts and opinions I know that not EVERY Armenian treats everyone else as a pigeon to be scammed, no matter how prevalent that is in my city.\u00a0 And I know that by the 3rd generation they’ll be so Americanized that you’ll not distinguish them from any other American, because they themselves will.\u00a0\u00a0 I just wish we’d stop catering to the ego-demands of some of these parents walking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I try very hard not to be a person to judge based on nationality.\u00a0 But sometimes a nationality propagates its own stereotype.\u00a0 I live in a LARGE Armenian community.\u00a0 Our schools are pretty mixed of white, Hispanic, Black, Asian and … Continue reading