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Carnegie Corporation Commits $2.5 Million to Centers in Western Eurasia, South Caucasus
NEW YORK—Asserting scholarly research and education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences are not luxuries in difficult times but vitally necessary for emerging nations as they articulate new civic and cultural identities, Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian announced a $2.5 commitment over the next two years to further strengthen centers for advanced study focusing on western Eurasia and the south Caucasus.
A single western Eurasia center covers Belarus, Ukraine, and Mol
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Well, well, it’s always a delight to see Vartan Gregorian helping Azerbaijan, isn’t it?
Gosh, dirt-poor Azerbaijan, spending billions in oil and gas revenue on weapons to be used against Karabagh/Artsakh, surely does need help from the Carnegie Corporation, to advance – what’s the term Carnegie used? – its “civic and cultural identities”, huh?
Wait, let me take out my checkbook now and send a donation to Carnegie, OK?
Maybe we can get more Armenians who have “made it” to get the organization they work for to give money to our adversaries, huh? I wonder how much money Carnegie gives to Turkey. Now that’s a country, Turkey, struggling with – what was Carnegie’s term for it gain? – its “cultural identity,” after having wiped out seweral million indigenous Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians. The poor Turks just don’t know who they are anymore after such a massive cleansing.
Let’s pour a few more billion dollars of our tax dollars down the Turkish rathole so they can find out their “identity.”
That’s what I like about Armenians who have “made it”, be it in corporate life, charitable organizations, or the media – they are so generous in giving of their time, money, and support to our adversaries and, in the process, cutting our own throats.
Why don’t we Armenians just commit mass suicide and get it over with once and for all? I have an idea: let’s hold a banquet to honor more famous Armenians who have no Armenian identity.
If the money produces one more Orhan Pamuk or Taner Akcam it will be worth it. Centers of Study attract those who are curious. Just the fact that Akcam grew up in Western Turkey he could see that there once were other people living here. He was curious. He made a point of finding out Turkish Responsibility as told in his book “A Shameful Act”.
Turkey is not going to educate Turks on negative aspects of its History. Let’s hope that with Carnegie money, the curious will take advantage of these learning centers.