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I'm going to paste something I wrote elsewhere when someone said something like Armenians are ruining Glendale, propagating Armenian interests and that this street name is irrelevant to Glendale, and that Armenians are erasing Glendales past
"This is only ONE street in this ENTIRE city, a city where over 6500 of the 10000 small businesses are Armenian owned, a city where 45% of the population is Armenian, a city that for the past 4 decades has been heavily invested into not only financially by Armenians, is named something with significance to Armenia. The Armenian community has been active and present in Glendale for at least the last 4 decades. Not to mention the Secretary of the navy was born in Glendale, in 1915, who was Armenian.
Why are you so against naming a street, one of its kind, that has historical significance with Armenians? There are over 900 streets in Glendale. Do you know their names and their significance? I will give you some of the street names in Glendale: Andennes Drive. A city in Norway. Any Norwegians in Glendale? Samarkand street. A city in Uzbekistan. Any Uzbeks in Glendale?? Baghdad Place, Iraq. Not sure too many iraqis here. Calafia Street, a name from Arabic Caliphate. Caleb street, an individual from Hebrew Bible, the Torah. Balboa Ave, a spanish explorer. Cornwall drive, English city. Cortez drive, Hernan Cortez, an individual who conquered the Aztecs. "Cortez the Killer". Edenburg street, Scotland.
I can go on and on and on with the multitudes of irrelevant, "random" street names in Glendale. So is it not unusual, that not one street has any cultural relevance to Armenians despite our plentiful contributions to this city? From politics, to medicine, law, real estate, accounting, retail, restaurants... So its okay to name a street something absolutely unrelated to Glendale but not okay to name one tiny portion of Maryland to reflect part of its current population?
This city has many street names that reflect different peoples cultural heritage that have, or still are here in significant numbers. Be it spanish, german, english, greek etc. And others that have not, or are still not present. uzbek, jewish etc. Is it not a natural, simple request to have one that reflects armenians'? Why is it so wrong? It is exceedingly apparent that whoever objects to this street, considers the Armenian community invisible in this city. The history of Glendale INCLUDES Armenians, honey. The past of Glendale includes Armenians. The present today becomes history tomorrow. s the Uzbeki name propagating Uzbeki interests? Is Celtic names propagating Celtic interests? Its okay for a city to have a variety of names ranging in meaning, background, and diversity. But when it comes to an Armenian historical ethnic place name, all of a sudden its "political"? Interesting.
I think whoever thinks this street name is dividing glendale, needs to take a good long look into themselves, and see if THEY, have any racial biases themselves. If they dont, this would be a non issue. This is OUR city too, we deserve to have at least one street name that has a tie to OUR homeland. Just because you had to ask someone what Artsakh means, does not in any way detract from its significance to this city."
Comment by outhusiast at 05/10/2018 at 06:02 UTC
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6500 of the 10000 small businesses
Where'd you get this number?
10K small businesses in Glendale?
Comment by aper_from_komitas at 03/10/2018 at 19:13 UTC
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I think you're sort of missing my point. I wouldn't be against it if you called it Armenia way or Yerevan boulevard. But when you start getting into specific districts of Armenia, it's a little too much if you ask me. And btw, I'm not okay with any of the other ethnic names.