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Sometimes I witness some Armenian discussions on the Internet on the topic “stop remembering the great achievements of the Armenians.” “Stop bragging” and the like are often fair theses. I myself sometimes get annoyed by very intrusive posts about the great heritage, made in haste. Bragging is really not good, especially when there is no measure in it. But. I am categorically against the other extreme (and we often suffer from our radicalism in judgment) - “let’s not remember past merits.” Some even agree that remembering the achievements of the Armenian world is awkward and even shameful. The abolition of Armenian culture is in full swing, to the drumbeat of iron cans of black Caspian caviar and barrels of oil. After all, the world, in general, doesn’t care what the genius Khachaturian was by nationality; they love his music. The world doesn’t care what Aivazovsky’s nationality was, they love his paintings. The world simply accepts the intellectual gifts of our people, and except for art critics, no one in 50 years will challenge “facts” like those presented today to this very world by the army of Baku propagandists/history swindlers. What will happen if Armenians do not competently and beautifully, based on texture, talk about the great Armenian history, about the great Armenians, about the great Armenian culture and way of life? I assure you that in 20-30 years we will say goodbye to them. 20 years are enough and the children of Armenians will be confident that they are eating “Azerbaijani khash”, drinking “Azerbaijani cognac Agridag”, washing down with “Azerbaijani mineral water”, to the music of the “great Azerbaijani composer” Khachaturogly and will admire the paintings of the brilliant “Azerbaijani artist” Eyvazov. And all this will happen on the territory of “Western Azerbaijan” on which the “good Azerbaijanis” allowed (so be it) the Armenian people to live. I would not advise thinking that this is all frivolous and that the wind of history will dispel the clouds over the Armenian heritage. No. Alas, everything is just beginning. Taking into account the development of artificial intelligence capabilities, it is possible to make a video in which the great Aznavour will sing and give interviews in the Azerbaijani language, saying that Karabakh is the ancestral land of the Turks. We are talking not only about the war with the Armenian state, but also with the very national identity of the Armenians. This is a new front in the struggle for our heritage. And you need to be prepared for it.

This week students in my course on Baroque Italian literature and culture have been reading the 17th-century treatise on poetics “Il cannocchiale aristotelico” (‘The Aristotelian Spyglass’, 1670) by Emanuele Tesauro. Already the oxymoronic title hints at the synthesis between Ancient (the poetics of Aristotle) and Modern (the recent invention of the telescope and Galileo's discoveries) that marks the work. In keeping with some of the principal characteristics of the Baroque period - excess, novelty, marvel, discovery, new worlds - Tesauro emphasizes the importance of metaphor, which he describes as “la madre di tutte le argutezze” (‘the mother of all wit’). The idea is to use unusual and even shocking metaphors that “link together remote notions” from disparate concepts in order to evoke greater expressiveness. One of the examples he gives is the one here: “prata amoena sunt” (‘the fields are pleasant, happy’) vs. “prata rident” (‘the fields are smiling, rejoicing’), for which he explains: "If you say "prata amoena sunt" ("the fields are happy"), you don't represent to me anything other than the fields becoming green, flowering. But if you say "prata rident" ("the fields are rejoicing"), you will make me see the Earth (as I said) as a live man, the field as a face, pleasantness as a happy smile. Such that in one, small word all of these notions from different fields come out: earth, field, pleasantness, man, soul, smile, happiness." #uditalian #italyintexas #texasinitaly #baroque #barocco #italian #italianculture #italianlanguage #italianliterature

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the “First Americans” and for three years they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. Coolidge issued a proclamation on Sept. 28, 1915, which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens. The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. On December 14, 1915, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governments at the White House. There is no record, however, of such a national day being proclaimed. The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday. In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including “Native American Heritage Month” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month”) have been issued each year since 1994. https://lnkd.in/gM8B6pi9

America and Europe tomorrow like Italy today  di Francesco Caracciolo What happened in the Italian peninsula yesterday happens today and will happen tomorrow in some Western countries. In ancient times the hybrid and decadent Roman society generated the tolerant, chaotic, conflictual Italian society. From the second century B.C. Rome and the Italian Peninsula received millions of individuals from very different places in the then known world. They hosted them to be served and to burden them with the fatigue of work no longer borne by the natives. L'articolo continua nel seguente link: https://lnkd.in/dvDSfYxp