THE REACTIONS OF ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN THE USA TO THE SPRING EVENTS IN ARMENIA, 2018

Abstract

The Armenian community in the United States today is probably one of the most diverse and important communities in the world and is second only to that of Russia in numbers. Although the number of Armenians in the US is unknown today, speculation puts the number from anywhere between 1.000.000 to 2.000.000. The Armenian community, due to the immigration history and patterns since 1890s until today with undoubtedly the largest Armenian community in Los Angeles, has its influences and influenced itself from the Republic of Armenia. It is very important to analyze how Armenians of different communities reacted to the spring events happened in Armenia, known as Armenian Velvet Revolution. This article discusses the reactions of both Armenian traditional institutions and Armenian communities of different states mainly in LosAngeles (Glendale), Miami (Florida), New York. The events happened in the Armenian communities of US of those days such as mass demonstrations, virtual video and text messages, social media coverage of all these events, financial support from the communities to the revolutionary group in Armenia, travels from the communities to Armenia in order participate in the process itself are important directives of future cooperation model for the postrevolutionary netstate such as Armenia with its worldwide communities.