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Manjikian: Beads Exposed
Once forcefully displaced, as post-genocide diasporans, we keep travelling across borders, moving from city to city and, in the process, establishing and sustaining multiple transnational networks and connections within professional and personal spheres. It’s just the way we roll, as scattered beads. Besides actual voyages, we even maintain symbolic and imagined ties with regions and lands in historic Armenia.
Dispersion is, after all, connected to mobility and movement. Our identities are onboard for the ride, continually being re-formulated, re-created due to multiple attachments, belongings, and exposures to various cultures and influences thrown at us by the uncontrollable vigor of globalization.
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As always Lalai, your column articulates what is in the hearts of so many rolling beads…
I wish to offer an idea as food for thought… You spoke about moving forward after achieving closure on the subject of genocide, however an open wound need not become a scar to be a part of us that incites us to perpetual motion. Even with closure, pain subsides with time, but never leaves… It serves as a reminder that we survived, always.
Abris, keep up the great work!
Hye Lalai, abrees…
Yet, all where Armenians are, where Armenians have been, our advanced culture has left signs of the Armenians… Armenians having been there… not to destroy, eliminate, just Armenians having ‘been there’…
Manooshag