To all those urging people to move to Armenia, have you ever talked to an immigrant "hayastantsi" in your community, have you asked why and how they left, have you asked how painful that decision of cutting the umbilical cord from a shameful statehood for the love of homeland was, have you asked how they live in an invisible in-between state between an unbearable state and an un-integrating local community? ASK!
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There's a war of emotions going online and live wherever Armenians meet. The armies are divided between those who are for repatriation and those against. And of course there's a third group of the disengaged, who simply are indifferent to put it softly, and don't care to put it realistically. While emotionally, at this stage, I'm against these reignited campaigns for repatriation, I am in a way also FOR the repatriation, a view that comes with a list of items starting with but and/or if, channelled through a concept known us constructive process to be delivered by a conglomerate of interests provided for all the vested groups. (more... http://grishoyedova.blogspot.com/p/essays.html )
