One of the first “culture shock” experiences I had, was going from a super diverse country (the US) to a super uniform country, Armenia. You know that horrible joke that people say about Asians, how they all look the same? Well, those were my first impressions when I came to Armenia… “Everyone looks… the same!”Continue reading “A Journey from Diversity to Monotony and Back Again”
Category Archives: Homeland vs Diaspora
The Dialect Dispute
No one said that learning the Armenian language was easy, here’s a glimpse at just how horrifyingly wrong things can get.
Diaspora-Homeland Divide
One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Armenia and became acquainted with the culture, was that there was a huge Diaspora-Homeland rift. Is that rift slowly closing in on itself?