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Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian

Asbarez Columnist
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
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3 Comments

  1. Maybe we should see a distinction between offensive and defensive nationalism. That of the Finns in the 1890s was defensive, and that of the Poles. As the Welsh, Scots and Irish today. Often imperialism has been confused with nationalism. There was no British nationalism until the 1950s, only imperialism (Britain was an empire). Much Turkish nationalism was in fact imperialism. The major problem for Armenia in the 19th century was that it was a country (ethnic, linguistic) divided between two empires.

  2. Excellent article. Nationalism has been and should be a powerful unifying force. It has helped numerous societies worldwide. Abuses do not come from nationalism, they come from people distorting national pride. Pride in one’s nation is necessary for survival. Pride in one’s nation should and can lead to non responsive politicians being voted out of office and can and should lead to the removal of institutional corruption.
    Nationalism can be a very good force as long as it is not “my country, right or wrong, my country.”

  3. Excellent article,. Sadly people nowadays are too brainwashed with their political parties to be logical.

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