#RealityCheck

Based on real life questions that have been asked to Armenians in Lebanon, we have decided to put together a video and commemorate the Armenian Genocide Centennial in our own way.
We hope this approach will receive the positive impact we were aiming for: reduce judgement and stop discrimination!
MANY THANKS TO OUR GUESTS
(in order of appearance)
PIERRE CHAMMASSIAN . EILEEN KHATCHADOURIAN . HAGOP DERGHOUGASSIAN . DOREEN TOUTIKIAN . VROUYR JOUBANIAN . ROY MALAKIAN . PAULA YACOUBIAN . SANDRA ARSLANIAN . CAROLE BABIKIAN KOKONI . ANITA TOUTIKIAN . SHANT KABAKIAN . LORIG SABOUNDJIAN ZADOURIAN . ARPI MANGASSARIAN . ARTHUR SATYAN . GUY MANOUKIAN
A Video by Mike Malajalian, Perla Kherlakian & Bouchra Baltagi
Original Music by Joy Fayad & Rachel Barakat

[@isabellek.4202]

Was about time someone addressed this stereotype issue. Great video. Greetings from a fellow Syrian Armenian :)

[@arutyunakopyan8864]

hay gexetskuhi

[@aliaali7992]

I love Armenia and Armenian people I've been there before 2 years for skiing such a nice people

[@Hungry4Herb]

is there a snowboard culture out there too or mostly skiing...

[@HopefulInterventions]

Thank you 🙏

[@crouge]

Amazing video! thank you

[@antoinec4565]

You guys are awesome!

[@rita-mariazouein9214]

Great job Perliiii !!!

[@NicolasElHayek]

This is hilarious! Great job!

[@kylekhandikian6331]

Great and funny video! My family is Lebanese-Armenian so I quite enjoyed this; it's a fun way to learn about the diaspora in Lebanon. Would be interesting to see what stereotypes and questions Armenians in other communities around the world face. I know of a few here in Los Angeles/USA...

[@eliasobeid3837]

great job

[@arinedancegroup]

Love it.

[@anaha5875]

Really Nice ❤❤❤

[@SuperFrosBite]

Nice video! Armenia and Lebanon forever!

+Lebanese Armenian

[@SuperFrosBite]

+Müd Monéi yes!

[@hanikaram3351]

I love you my people there is a droplet of tear in my eye for I miss you all

[@firasharb1454]

Armenian?!? Eww . 100% Lebanese forever . Seriously they need to get out of Lebanon and go back to where they came from.

[@SuperFrosBite]

Firas Harb why?

[@saccodermoussissian8292]

well done

[@tiagoblumenfeld3827]

(1:28) She's right! I am Armenian from Brazil, but from three roots I mean, Armenian from Western Armenia (Turkey), German Jewish and aboriginal Brazilian. And my first name is HAGOP. Well... I don't eat pastirma every day, but I am completely crazy for pastırma, sucuk and mantı in the oven, as well as for yalancı sarma. About me, I only liked spiced food when I was a teenager, but for many years I prefer dishes with no spices, although I like garlic a lot. (3:59) She's right again. Armenians are not a nation, but a large family around the world.... About Kim Kardashian, I don't like her and sorry, I get offended when Armenian women are compared to her... When I think of the Armenians in Lebanon, I think much more of Antilias and Anjar than of Bourj Hamoud, and the first Lebanese person who comes to my mind is General Émile Lahoud. Well, I am a Brazilian Armenian in love with my Maronite friends, with Kataeb Al'Lubnaniye and the late General Bachir Gemayel (May God bless his memory). I proudly raise the Phoenician flag !

[@sudeturkoglu1098]

Armenia is Turkey

[@Bunny-rz7mf]

Pastırma, sucuk, mantı and yalancı sarma dude these are Turkish not Armenian😂 You don't even know Armenian, you write in Turkish, do you realize?

[@HopefulInterventions]

@@Bunny-rz7mfThese are Arabic food! Many Turkish cuisine are Arabic! Turks originally come from Central Asia starting in the 11th century.

[@HopefulInterventions]

@@sudeturkoglu1098NO! Turks originally come from Central Asia starting in the 11th century you fools! Turks invaded the native lands of the Armenians, Greeks, etc., 😒

[@HopefulInterventions]

@@Bunny-rz7mfSo it’s NOT Turkish food! It’s Middle Eastern! 🤣

[@romyzalloum5353]

HAHAHAHAHA this is hilarious and SO well done !!

[@NaderR]

I stumbled upon a Palestinian/Israeli family from Jerusalem in Jordan, they took photos with me and asked me to pass the hello to Adel Karam.

[@user-fs9jn5kh7m]

Your comment is irrelevant

[@antoinec4565]

Super Sako actually he is #1 to me I just can't he's awesome oh by the way my family is here and I love them so much they bring joy to me really I wonder if they know though anyway I'm grateful to be alive and blessed but more importantly loved like that! Yes thank you Jesus Christ. Amen & Hallelujah Thank you guys I love you and God bless Y'all I ain't done I still have more love & beautiful things & people coming my way I AM expecting a blessing after blessing and I AM Confident in that I spoke. Happy blessed Sunday. Maha

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

Ես հայ եմ եւ հպարտ: Մեր ըներները ասորիներն էն, եզտիները, լիբանանցիները, սուրիացիները եւ իրաքցիները: Միշտ բարեկամ կը մնանք:❤

[@sampletext829]

whats that language they speak in the begining? its definetaly not armenian

[@ArmenSur]

+sample text they speak Arabic through the entire video

[@hanikaram3351]

they are Lebanese from Armenian descent but they are Lebanese their parents they grew up with me from childhood also the Lebanese are from Syrian descent and other minorities so for the Lebanese who consider themselves pure realize that too and even if others identify them as only Armenians then what the fuck do you expect from that I consider them as Lebanese who speak Armenian and have Armenian roots well then I am VERY LUCKY FOLKS for I have more than one awesome people I repeat they are Lebanese my people they are like the cedars of Lebanon and they are beautiful and I am very jealous for my people . the language is Arabic from Lebanese dialect also I am from karam family clan what more authentic Lebanese you want folks ?

[@petertran5426]

sample text Arabic but this not Armenian language.

[@primatalogico1162]

It's Levantine with a Lebanese dialect ( due to many arabists many consider it to be arabic, though it's not )

[@mansoura.6586]

@@hanikaram3351 not really they’re ethnically Armenian and their nationality is Lebanese and maybe Armenian as well. Armenians and other minorities don’t have to identify as “Lebanese” to blend in our society, they’re their own ethnic group. Greetings from an Assyrian from Lebanon!!

[@4chan320]

nice video ! and a little message for bourjhamoud.. ii have noticed more and more kurds are filling in the streets again.. and during april 22/2015 a group of kurds came and broke the armenian genocide poster.. but nobody cared.. 1 day ago a kurd tried to steel an old ladies bag and failed.. but nobody noticed it.. during the problems in bourj hammoud there is a video of a kurd cursing armenians.. and again no one cared.. now in eid adha lebanese people were celebrating eid adha and it was on lbc inside sa7at shouhada2 and a group of people holding the kurdish flag were dancing and the lebanese people were claping .. please lebanese people.. do not support those bastards , they helped the turkish during the genocide..

[@Kkkarm]

So true

[@nebuchadnezzarii5421]

+Korean Jesus I would encourage all Armenians to join the SSNP.. whether you are Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Maronite, Shi'ite, etc etc... the SSNP will help to protect our nation from the separatist aggression of all of Israel's puppets (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kurds, ISIS, Turkey etc etc... they are all being paid to fight eachother and gain our lands). Any Lebanese who supports Kurds, ISIS, Israel, USA, Turkey or Saudi Arabia is a scumbag, and should be wiped out. Hezbollah and SSNP are the only groups who have proven time and time again to protect Armenians in Lebanon. Interesting note: there are already thousands of Armenians in the SSNP in Lebanon and Syria, many have 2 or more generations (father, son) loyal to the party. If you are Armenian, spread the word.

[@karimkarim-mu8wr]

i am lebanese and don't worry:) I'll only support armenians

[@OhMaDayzz]

Why would there be Kurds living in Beirut? Where did they come from?

[@mouradnrd]

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@tombalas7]

Odourless basterma? Ok, I’m listening.

[@JoeHacobian]

I know it’s a Lebanese video but why are we hearing them speak Arabic when the whole video is about them being Armenian. Inchu chek hayeren khosum?

[@primatalogico1162]

and they're speaking Lebanese, a dialect of Levantine ! as in, it's not Arabic !

[@kevomanoukian4847]

Primata Lógico dude please stop being a jew ,

[@demelzakonoplyanka8550]

they are lebanese Armenian

[@user-fs9jn5kh7m]

@@primatalogico1162 ur joking. This is not Arabic 😂 I grew up in USA and I am Moroccan and still understood every single word they said. If this wasn't Arabic then how did I understand it? Please stop just stop

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

կարելի է որ հարցում հարցնողը լիբանանցի է, ոչ դէ հայ:

[@Theziz8]

Pierre Chamasian is fucking awesome.

[@LaPotraBellaca]

The first guy is hilarious

[@CometdownCat]

Whatttl I've never se3n one step foot out of bourj hamood 😂

[@CometdownCat]

Say what they want, bedo is best

[@Oilofmercy]

What language? Not Armenian. Turkish?

[@fatimasaksouk]

Arabic

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

they are speaking arabic

[@ArmenianFootball1]

I would imagine Armenians would relatively stick out because of their looks, mannerisms, language and overall swagger.

[@firasharb1454]

Swagger???? LOL GTFOH. And of course they'll stick out cuz they ain't Lebanese or Arab. Armenians are just like any other typical White Eastern European ppl.

[@abdullahchhab2325]

No they would not

[@demelzakonoplyanka8550]

@@firasharb1454 you are so wrong. Armenia is fully in Asia. Armenians also have very brown skin sometimes and distinctive features. They can also be mixed with arab.

[@demelzakonoplyanka8550]

@Dr. Kevorkian they are NOT indo-european people. They are west asian. Why do so many Armenians insist they are European.

[@firasharb1454]

@@demelzakonoplyanka8550 no it’s not dumbass learn your geography they are also apart of Europe 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@hassanjamal4212]

Are Armenian semites or Indo European?

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

semite and indo-european arent generic terms but language families. Armenian language is an Indo-European language, but in the video they speak Arabic, which is a semitic language

[@inessainessa4525]

Are they Armenian people?

[@Zepur8]

yes they were all armenians :)

[@samjammo3529]

and i also love Armenien People for beeing very honest and Good Hearts

[@hanikaram3351]

they are Lebanese my awesome people just happened to be from awesome Armenian descent long live my people that enriched Lebanon

[@samjammo3529]

hani karam lebanese are lebanese Kurds,armenians,Syrians,Palestinians are what they are..everyone have his Identity

[@MrArmengg1]

Инесса Амбарцумова no, they don't seem to be demonstrated anything indicative of Armenianness

[@Jejak_Pengangguran]

Im here after finds out im 8% Armenian

[@didi_vh_]

Dakhil rabkon ana

[@samjammo3529]

they came from Turkey they Feld Theire Country like Palestinians Feld Theire Country to lebanon we have a lot of foreingers

[@hanikaram3351]

I repeat they are my people I am from the karam clan family how much Lebanese roots do you need dip shit

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

we come from Armenia. It just so happens to be that since the days of the Ottoman Empire till modern times, majority of native Armenian lands are under the occupation of the Turkish government

[@MrArmengg1]

Soooo...are they planning on actually speaking Armenian? "Are you related to Kim Kardashian?" Are you kidding? They're proud of her? These people are about as Armenian as my neighbor Juan Sanchez. About as Armenian as Kim Kardashian for that matter. What a joke. FYI: the inventor of the MRI machine is Armenian, along with many other people who have made major and minor contributions to society. Whoever made this video really needs to rethink their notion of identity. They really need more inclusive of all Armenians. For starters, they can interview people who are actually Armenian as opposed to people who are almost entirely assimilated...Armenia is a good place to start. What a joke.

[@nonosh]

Armen Grigoryan Armen jan, you try living multiple generations in the diaspora and then tell me how well you can speak Armenian while maintaining success and a family. These are our brothers and sisters who manage to go to Armenian school, marry fellow Armenians, and know their history. As an Armenian born in California, I can tell you that doing all of that isn't easy in the diaspora. Besides, it's not as if we wanted our grandparents to leave Western Armenia; the objective was to survive the genocide.

[@alfredproofrock9619]

The diatribe should have been in Armenian hihihi... and do you really believe you are an authority when deciding who's armenian and who's not?

[@primatalogico1162]

this was a show made for armenians in lebanon for the lebanese community which is mainly for humor ( and ofc since it's targeting the Lebanese people they spoke in Lebanese ). I don't how it's not obvious but neither the questions, nor the answers are really serious ( mainly answering funny stereotypes ). and it's just for laughs ! You gotta chill and rationalize 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@roxyli5322]

Lesbian?

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

lebanon* its a country in west asia

[@rufatbaku5741]

😂Pastirma Manti Sucuk All Turkish and Turkish Cuisine

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

turks learned about these cuisine from Armenians. ur welcome