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NORTH AMERICAN ARMENIANS (USA)
Index → Americas → North-America Non-Natives→ North American Armenians
Also featured:
Mormons, African
Americans, North American Hasidic
Jews, Italian Americans, North American Hmong, Serbian Americans, Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans
According to Wallis
(1965)[1][177],
the native pattern of courtship was nihil. “There
is no courtship, the marriage being arranged by the parents of the boy and
girl. It usually takes place at an early age” (p22-3). Little had apparently
changed in Fresno, California: “The
custom of betrothal by parents, common in Armenia, is
still practised in modified form here. There is little courtship among boys
and girls, who associate but little, and are usually married at an early age,
the girls frequently at the age of sixteen. Even at the high school boys
associate practically not at all with girls and such association is generally
discouraged by parents as undesirable”.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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