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  • Is Armenia a failed nation?

    Is Armenia a failed nation?

    I think it is a failed nation. I am not trying to be offensive but there are some things to realize why they are failed.

    Average Armenian still lives in 1915. If you try to make a sensible conversation with an average Armenian the conversation ALWAYS comes to “genocide” at some point. It literally sounds like they are BRAGGING about being a victim all the time; it’s bizarre and annoying because it doesn’t add anything to any conversation and it blocks the development of the relationships between their neighbors hence the rest of the world.

    They always talk about how they survived a genocide etc and they think their neighboring countries are the ones who should be blamed for their poor economy and social infrastructure. But they don’t see the fact that Israel, a real holocaust survivor nation, was born from their ashes and now they are one of the strongest and most influential countries in the world.

    Another thing; A nation’s progress happens through their folk. They need to accept their history and move on. There’s no point to feed the younger generation with hatred. The below pictures are average Armenian’s mindset and the lack of respect for national symbols are saddening. These kids are growing with hate. I’ve seen many similar scenes in Los Angeles. Kids and their grandmas/grandpas are stepping on Turkish flags like they are getting revenge, i think this is pathetic.

    ermeni gorevlilerin nefreti turk bayragi

    (the people in the picture above are Armenian officials..)

    ermeni cocuklar turk ve azerbaycan bayragini eziyor
    armenian kids turkish flag
    armenian kids hate azerbaijan and turkish flag

    I’ve met and interacted with MANY Armenians who live in California and I can honestly say most of them are decent people but extremely ignorant due to their parents. God forbid if you don’t agree with their genocidal claims they become hostile.

    I personally don’t think Armenia will be a developed country ever because their mindset is a huge block on development.

    Damien Roth

  • Turkish man forced to remove flag from apartment balcony

    Turkish man forced to remove flag from apartment balcony

    Turkish Flag
    Mahmut Bak was not given a reason why management of his Oshawa apartment building ordered him to remove the Turkish flag hanging outside his balcony window. CHLOÉ FEDIO/TORONTO STAR

    Chloé Fedio, Staff Reporter

    It’s a tradition Mahmut Bak follows every year, whether he’s at home in Turkey or in Canada where he goes to school: On Oct. 29 he displays his country’s flag to celebrate independence day.

    The 20-year-old mechanical engineering student says it’s especially important to hang the red flag with a white crescent and star when he’s so far from home.

    And yet, for the second year in a row he’s been forced by management to take it down from the window of his fourth-floor apartment in Oshawa. He has never been given a reason.

    “It’s a special day for Turkey, for Turkish people,” he said. “Why should it be a big problem? It’s not against any Canadian laws, as far as I know. I’m far away from my home and I just want to put my flag up on this special day.”

    At first he resisted, pointing out that Canadian flags were hanging on the balconies of several apartments in the two 12-storey towers on Pentland St., both owned by Valiant Property Management.

    Then came a memo distributed to all flag-waving residents on Tuesday.

    “Could you please remove your flag from your balcony,” the note stated. “This is a result of asking the person . . . to take his Turkish one down. He is yelling discrimination.”

    The superintendant of 1265 Pentland St., who would only identify herself as Diane, said she distributed the note at the request of management.

    “The building has just undergone huge, tremendous renovations and it was unsightly. It was a huge red flag in the middle of the living room window, in the middle of the balcony. It was very ungodly to look at,” she said.

    The order outraged many patriotic residents who want to show pride for the country they live in.

    Gerald Ash was asked to take down the small Canadian flag he had affixed to the inside of his balcony with a plastic tie.

    “I just had a little one, the kind you fly outside your car. I’ve been here seven and a half months and no one has said squat about it. Now, all of a sudden, some guy puts a Turkish flag up and I have to take mine down. That’s ridiculous,” Ash said.

    But now, two days after the memo went out, management says it’s all a big misunderstanding. Erika Bradbury, a senior property manager for Valiant, said the policy has always been that residents cannot make holes in the building exterior to hang any object and that items cannot dangle over the balcony edge.

    She sent Ash an email Thursday stating that management “does not, nor has it ever had, anything against properly displayed flags on tenant balconies.”

    It’s good news for Ash who’s eager to put his flag back up for Remembrance Day in honour of his great-grandfather who fought in World War I.

    But Bak has received no such email.

    “It wasn’t damaging anything. It wasn’t blocking anyone’s balcony,” he said. “I was told Canada was a multicultural country, a free country. There shouldn’t be any problem with the flag of any country.”

    , Nov 04 2010