THE ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR FROM MEXICO THINKS AMERICAN ARMENIANS SHOULD BE UNPATRIOTIC
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May 19 2010
Exactly as predicted by VDARE.COM’s Allan Wall, Mexican President
Felipe Calderon has hypocritically attacked Arizona’s SB1970 during
his White House visit, with no protest from President Obama.
They’re all having dinner together tonight (Wednesday). On the guest
list, of course, is Mexico’s Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan
Doing a recent blog item about Sarukhan, I was inspired to ask myself
"Sarukhan? What kind of name is that anyway?"
This is not always a polite question. I remember that in a 1958
science fiction story called Shark Ship, the late C. M. Kornbluth
drew an unpleasant character named Merdeka, and wrote
"He didn’t know where he came from. The delicate New York way of
establishing origins is to ask: ‘Merdeka, hah? What kind of a name
is that now?’ And to this he would reply that he wasn’t a lying
Englishman or a loudmouthed Irishman or a perverted Frenchman or
a chiseling Jew or a barbarian Russian or a toadying German or a
thickheaded Scandihoovian, and if his listener didn’t like it, what
did he have to say in reply?"
Like I said, unpleasant.
But it was the "What kind of name is that" investigative technique
that led me to this story about the Lapjani family–because you never
see a headline that says "Family of Albanian Gypsies Sells Daughter
Into Slavery."
Sarukhan, as you may find out from Wikipedia, is an Armenian name,
short for Sarukhanian. (He actually spells it Sarukhán, but we’re
writing in English, so we’ll ávoid thát.) There’s even a town
in Armenia named Sarukhan, named after the Bolshevik revolutionary
Hovannes Sarukhanian.
Ambassador Sarukhan isn’t descended from him, apparently, but from
the Menshevik revolutionary Artur Sarukhanian, who worked for Kerensky
and fled Russia when Kerensky lost.
Why is this important? Well, as I wrote last week, Ambassador Sarukhan
has his Armenian heritage "right up there with oxygen" on his list
of priorities.
In fact, he thinks that the "Armenian community" in the United States
should make common cause with Mexicans against Americans:
"In a November 21, 2008 interview granted to The Armenian Reporter,
Amb. Sarukhan emphasized that "communities like the Armenian and
the Mexican communities are natural allies. They share agendas and
challenges in this country. Many of them have come here driven by
the same problems of lack of economic opportunities. Both are hard
working societies. [In the past] the Armenian community faced the
prejudice and racism and discrimination in this country that Mexican
communities are facing today."
"He stated that ‘It would make more sense if Armenian and Mexican
communities work together especially in the West Coast and New England
where we have the highest concentration of Armenian-Americans to bring
down the bombastic nature of the debate, to look at the opportunities
and the challenges in an objective and forward-looking way.’
"Mr. Sarukhan’s candid position regarding his Armenian roots is
not only uplifting for the Armenian Youth, but also enriching for
Mexico’s international image. His grandparents arrived in Mexico in
the early 1930s. His grandfather was a Russian-Armenian also named
Artur Sarukhanian, and grandmother, a survivor of the Genocide arrived
in Mexico with the idea of coming to Canada. Having read a lot about
Mexico, Sr. Sarukhan decided to stop in Mexico on their way to Canada.
The elder Sarukhanians fell in love with Mexico and they stayed in
Mexico. Amb. Sarukhan was born in Mexico."
Mexico’s Ambassador to US Arturo Sarukhan Courageously Acknowledges
"1915 Genocide By Turkey" | Keghart.com Someone should alert Mark
Krikorian to this.
As for Sarukhan’s suggestion that Armenian-Americans are naturally
disloyal, it’s not true of the assimilated Armenians of the
William Saroyan generation–see How Can An Armenian-American Oppose
Immigration? It’s Easy! It might be truer of the more recent Armenian
immigrants who’ve come in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union.
And then are the California Armenians who are raisin farmers. Raisin
farmers may not feel like natural allies of Mexico, but they love
cheap labor.
Ethnically speaking, Mexico is, according to the CIA’s World Factbook,
mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%,
Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%,
white 9%,
other 1% As Steve Sailer has written, Mexican society is dominated by
a racial hierarchy with whites at the top, while the majority never
gets much of a chance.
If the United States Justice Department had jurisdiction over Mexican
elections, they’d be asking why the white Mexicans always get elected
President, and trying to put a stop to it.
Mexican elections may be like this partly because of the corruption
of Mexican society. But it’s also because the descendants of the
Conquistadors have more energy and intelligence than the descendants of
the conquered. (Which may have something to do with why they conquered
in the first place.)
But a lot of people have more energy and intelligence than the
Spaniards, and that’s where immigration to Mexico comes in. Not only
is the ambassador from Mexico an Armenian, but
Vicente Fox’s grandfather was a German-American named Fuchs (which
is the kind of name that you sort of have to change).
The world’s richest man lives in Mexico, but he’s not a Mexican.
Carlos Slim’s family name is Salim, and they come from Lebanon.
The best-looking Mexican actress in the United States, Salma Hayek,
[Pictures, amusing video] is not entirely Mexican, she’s part-Lebanese.
Here’s what Elena Poniatowska said in 2001: "The Mexican writer
Elena Poniatowska affirmed today that Mexico is presently recovering
the territories lost in the past to the United States, thanks
to emigration. ‘The people of the poor, the lice-ridden and the
cucarachas are advancing in the United States, a country that wants
to speak Spanish because 33.4 million Hispanics impose their culture’
affirmed Poniatowska when presenting her novel La Piel del Cielo
in Caracas."[Leading Mexican Journalist: "Mexico is recovering lost
territories via immigration", El Imparcial, July 3rd, 2001]
Poniatowska was born in Paris on May 19, 1932. (Happy Birthday!) Her
birth name is Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores
Poniatowska Amor.
So if an Armenian, a German, two Lebanese, and a Polish Princess
are stopped by the Arizona police, can they be asked for their
identification without Eric Holder and President Obama crying
"racial profiling?"
Answer: no, of course not.
Hayek, by the way, is now a naturalized American citizen, and to add
further confusion, is also the wife of a French multi-millionaire,
Mme Salma Hayek Pinault.
Hayek, as a Mexican-American, who speaks English with a thick Mexican
accent, represents what’s supposed to be the ultimate horror of
the Arizona law–a person who can easily be mistaken for an illegal
alien, because of her "national origin," rather than her race, but
is actually legal.
There are also Mexican-American natives of Arizona and legal Mexicans
with green cards who, as I say, are supposed to represent the "victims"
in the "racial profiling" suit. Of course, as demonstrated above,
Mexicans aren’t all one race, any more than Americans are.
However, if all these Armenians etc. can become Mexican patriots,
perhaps the (legal) Hispanics of Arizona can become American
patriots–and stop complaining about measures that are as much about
protecting them as they are about protecting the remaining White
Anglo Saxon Protestants of Arizona.
After that, we could work on restoring American patriotism to the
Oval Office and the Justice Department.
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