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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there? -William Saroyan in Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia Syrian Refugee - Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh

5 My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there? -William Saroyan in Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia Syrian Refugee - Kovsakan, Nagorno-Karabakh

"I feel more connection to my clan than a homeland." -Anon (San Francisco, California) , "I feel more connection to my clan than a homeland." -Anon (San Francisco, California) Little Armenia Parking Lot - Hollywood, USA Little Armenia Parking Lot - Hollywood, USA

6 "I feel more connection to my clan than a homeland." -Anon (San Francisco, California) , "I feel more connection to my clan than a homeland." -Anon (San Francisco, California) Little Armenia Parking Lot - Hollywood, USA Little Armenia Parking Lot - Hollywood, USA

"Growing up, I was rejected as Australian due to my ethnic looks. However, when I went to Armenia, they rejected me for being Australian because in their eyes I seemed to be a fake Armenian, I guess. And I am definitely not Iranian, but that's what my passport says under birthplace, so I am immediately judged on that. So who knows what I am. All of the above I guess." -Soseh Yekanians (born in Tehran, Iran. Now living in Australia) Kowloon Park Swimming Pool - Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

7 "Growing up, I was rejected as Australian due to my ethnic looks. However, when I went to Armenia, they rejected me for being Australian because in their eyes I seemed to be a fake Armenian, I guess. And I am definitely not Iranian, but that's what my passport says under birthplace, so I am immediately judged on that. So who knows what I am. All of the above I guess." -Soseh Yekanians (born in Tehran, Iran. Now living in Australia) Kowloon Park Swimming Pool - Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

"On one hand, I feel that I don't belong to Armenia because I don't have an Armenian nationality. On the other hand, I don't feel that I belong to Lebanon even though I've born because Lebanese people notice "ian" in my family name and generalize that I'm Armenian; even though I'm Lebanese of Armenian origin. There is a big confusion here since I don't know If I introduce myself as Armenian or Lebanese or both." -Hasmig "Jasmine" Boyadjian (Beirut, Lebanon) Sanjak Camp - Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon

8 "On one hand, I feel that I don't belong to Armenia because I don't have an Armenian nationality. On the other hand, I don't feel that I belong to Lebanon even though I've born because Lebanese people notice "ian" in my family name and generalize that I'm Armenian; even though I'm Lebanese of Armenian origin. There is a big confusion here since I don't know If I introduce myself as Armenian or Lebanese or both." -Hasmig "Jasmine" Boyadjian (Beirut, Lebanon) Sanjak Camp - Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon

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