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by Anonymous User on Thursday February 14, @10:42PM EST (#1)
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I lived in Glendale, California for three years, in a building that eventually was about half Armenian, in a heavily Armenian community.
Armenians may have suffered exclusion when they first came here, but my experience, when I lived in Glendale, was that they were fairly quick to pass it on to other people. I saw some of them looking down on native-born Americans, being rude, etc.
I didn't like living in the middle of that community, though I do still work for a first-generation Armenian man. But even here, there have been culture clashes. After having been in business over 10 years, and with most of his employees and contractors being native-born American women (with a few men and also his older sister), he is still not used to women talking back to men.
I shopped in some of the local ethnic grocery markets; while they would take my money, I noticed that many of the employees weren't at all friendly or polite about it. Hardly a "please" and "thank you" in the transaction, the way I am used to in a regular chain market.
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here is the article itself
BW2300 FEB 11,2002 6:05 PACIFIC 09:05 EASTERN
( SW)(CA-MLB/DODGERS-LASORDA) Tommy Lasorda and Bobby Valentine to Be Honored at Charity Sports Banquet; Proceeds to Benefit CHOC, Ararat Home for the Aged and the Tommy Lasorda Jr. Foundation
Sports Editors/Baseball Writers & Columnists
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--Feb. 11, 2002--Tommy Lasorda and Bobby Valentine will be named International Baseball Man of the Century and Humanitarian of the Year, respectively, at the 16th Annual Armenian-American Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on Tuesday, February 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Newport Marriott.
Proceeds from ticket sales, raffle tickets and auction items at the banquet, which is sponsored by the Orange County chapter of the Armenian-American TREX Fraternity, will benefit Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), Ararat Home for the Aged, Mission Hills, Calif., and the Tommy Lasorda Jr. Foundation, Yorba Linda, Calif.
"Tommy was a clear choice for International Baseball Man of the Century, having led the Los Angeles Dodgers to four National League pennants and two World Series championships, in addition to leading the U.S. men's Olympic baseball team to its first Gold Medal," said Jack Kayajanian, founder and co-chairman of the Armenian-American Sports Hall of Fame Banquet.
Kayajanian, a prominent Costa Mesa attorney and a past president of the TREX Fraternity's Orange County chapter, said of New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, "We chose him as Humanitarian of the Year because of the countless hours he spent driving the relief effort at Shea Stadium in the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy. He also dipped into his personal collection of baseball history, auctioning items to raise money for the Twin Towers Fund."
The Armenian-American TREX Fraternity was founded in Fresno during the 1920's. Inspired by hatred, prejudice and ignorance, the group was founded as a social club by Armenian fathers whose children weren't being invited to school events. They formed their own social club to fill the void. The fraternity now boasts 1,000 members and 15 chapters statewide, with 70 members in the Orange County chapter.
Information regarding tickets and corporate donations is available by calling the Kayajanian Law Firm at 714/437-7000.
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CONTACT: McCullough Communications & Marketing
Jack McCullough, 949/833-1135 or 949/833-1244 (fax)
jrm@mcculloughmarcom.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT MEDICAL SPORTS
SOURCE: Armenian-American TREX Fraternity
©2002
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