Additionally, are they considered a minority in the USA?
2006-12-11 08:43:56 · 11 answers · asked by Out S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Under most definitions of "race" -- no.
Armenians are a minority almost every place that they live since the vast majority will killed off by the Ottoman Turks during WW1.
There is a large number that now live in Michigan, mostly in metro Detroit.
2006-12-11 08:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RE: are Armenian people considered middle eastern or european? I have asked this question to different people so many different times and each time I get different answers. I am Armenian and don't even know what to consider myself. Geographically, Armenia is surrounded all by middle eastern countries, though most people think of middle eastern countries as...
2016-05-23 06:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by Andra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say no. Any Race is a Modern invention....we are all part of the human race. Please read below for further information .
Take skin color, for example. Melanin is the substance that colors our skin and helps protect us from sunlight. Pure melanin is the color and texture of charcoal dust, but our bodies can also produce it in shades of brown, yellow, and red. The mix of melanin we show to the world is controlled by our genes, but it is indeed a very small part of us.
How small? While each cell in the human body has 100,000 genes, only about six genes control skin color -- six out of 100,000!
What's more, everyone watching this program shares the same six genes, including the genes for dark skin! What that means may shock some people; that each of us has the potential to produce skin as black as an African native.
How can that be? According to scientists, it's because we are all, in fact, descended from Africa.
Professor Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford University has studied the genes of people around the world, and believes he has found our genetic ancestors. "It's likely that the Bushmen are the people who have contributed to the origin of modern humans," he says. "Therefore, the people who went out from Africa to colonize the rest of the world."
About 40,000 years ago, some Africans moved north, where their skin needed less protection against the sun and eventually grew lighter. Some moved to Siberia, where their eyelids grew narrow to protect against driving cold and bright snow. Europeans and Asians may look different from Africans, but they never lost their genes for dark skin; genes that can still be partly activated by a trip to the beach.
That is why geneticists say race, like beauty, is only skin deep. "If you expect that there exists pure races, that is totally absurd," states Dr. Cavalli-Sforza.
2006-12-11 08:53:36 · answer #3 · answered by Lovely B 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Jews certainly separate themselves from everyone. Everyone says racist, they use a special word, anti-semetist. They use the word kosher. referring to food that is prepared bread and killed in a special way. Accordingly, there's a way that you can kill without causing pain. They're really eating and sh*ting the same thing as everyone else.
What's a Yenta? It's someone that is less than. They won't admit that. They say it's a person that is not of their religion or not religious at all.
Who declared their land the Holy land? Where ever I stand is Holy land. I have a direct line with the Creator our Lord almighty; what makes them holy then anyone else. We all pray!
2006-12-11 08:56:42 · answer #4 · answered by kasar777 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No.
Most, if not all, people of Armenian heritage are members of the human race. No special classification is necessary.
2006-12-11 08:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by Jape Coyote 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In sociology, Middle easterners are grouped with Whites.
But, as another answerer avered, it is an arbitrary grouping,
2006-12-11 08:52:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are a subgroup part of the term Middle Eastern. Yes they are a minority, thanks to the Turks.
2006-12-11 08:45:52 · answer #7 · answered by Fredo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they shouldn't be.. all white are lumped into ONE catagory.. The celts were a Race..NOT white mofos
2006-12-11 08:46:10 · answer #8 · answered by TimeWastersInc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
race is an artificial social construct.
2006-12-11 08:45:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NAW
seen one arab on a camel.. youve seen them all
2006-12-11 08:49:24 · answer #10 · answered by justa_caucasion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋