#13 The News

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Do not argue with an Armenian about current events because you are likely to lose. Armenians are always up on the news from around the world. And since the Armenian community is relatively small when you consider all of humanity, most of the news is about everyone but Armenians. (And since a lot of news is bad news, that may not be a bad thing!) I’m kind of glad that the news from Armenia is not that exciting most of the time.

Armenians will subscribe to every 24-hour news channel (especially the foreign ones like Al-Jazeera) just to make sure that no news passes on them. They will devour newspapers, listen to the radio (think shortwave), and of course glue themselves to the TV set.

Of course, most of the information is relatively trivial (which may be the reason why Armenians are generally good at “Trivial Pursuits”). But all that information adds up in the mind of an Armenian, which will strengthen his or her arguments when it comes to politics or other curent event controversy.

Unfortunately, Armenians are not born with many filters that help them figure out whether the news story is legit or a fair assessment of what really happened. And add an Armenian’s propensity toward embellishment, you have Armenians believing preposterous things and take on positions that may not be the most politcially correct.