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DOUBLE-FACED MYTH IN ARMENIA
The new EU package for the Eastern Partnership based on Vilnius summit
focuses on the public visibility of the EU in the EaP.
This issue is especially urgent for Armenia. Armenia needs to know
more about Europe, or rather Armenia does to know Europe. Europe is a
domain of myths for Armenians, a big part of the society. In addition,
the myth has two faces. On the one hand, Europe is believed to be wily,
cunning, pervert. The other side of the myth says that Europe is a
universal civilization, people there are not like us but decided to
change their lives and achieved big achievements but some supernatural
persons and dealing with them is beyond us.
Armenia needs to bust these mythical perceptions with their double
faces and explain to the greater part of the Armenian society,
explain that Europeans are neither cunning and wily creatures nor
supernatural creatures but people just like us, societies that have
a lot of shortcomings and problems who admit and think on overcoming
and resolving their shortcomings and problems.
Armenia needs to simplify Europe and serve it as it is. Nobody has
done this so far. For example, television, the most popular media in
Armenia, never tells about Europe aside from some translated news or
travel shows.
The Armenian television does not televise an average European with
his quality of life, achievements and problems, perceptions of human
relations, culture of social coexistence. As soon as the public
consciousness is cleared of myths, and Europe and the Europeans are
perceived as part of mankind, the mind and heart of Armenians will
start working calmly and will defy the Soviet Russian propaganda.
When Europe transforms from a supernatural example to a practical
image, it will help the Armenian citizens to review their self-esteem
and the limit of their assumptions of possibilities of human societies.
Otherwise, Europe in Armenia is limited to trainings and seminars in
the conference halls of Armenia's resorts. They are also necessary of
course, but when it is limited to this scope, a generally inefficient
and vulnerable environment is shaped which harms the real link between
Armenia and Europe, as well as the conference hall initiatives.
The consequence is that there is no conscious public demand for the
European integration (except among a small active civil circle),
the public opinion is manipulated, the real political necessity for
European integration is misrepresented.
The general narrative of the new EU package shows awareness of the
existing problems, and it stems from the public and national interests
of Armenia. The development and application of an effective mechanism
for the solution of this issue will change essentially the depth and
content of the EU-Armenia relations, as well as the balance of forces
in Armenia, lowering the scale of the society of Armenia in domestic
and foreign issues.
17:55 14/02/2014 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31923
The new EU package for the Eastern Partnership based on Vilnius summit
focuses on the public visibility of the EU in the EaP.
This issue is especially urgent for Armenia. Armenia needs to know
more about Europe, or rather Armenia does to know Europe. Europe is a
domain of myths for Armenians, a big part of the society. In addition,
the myth has two faces. On the one hand, Europe is believed to be wily,
cunning, pervert. The other side of the myth says that Europe is a
universal civilization, people there are not like us but decided to
change their lives and achieved big achievements but some supernatural
persons and dealing with them is beyond us.
Armenia needs to bust these mythical perceptions with their double
faces and explain to the greater part of the Armenian society,
explain that Europeans are neither cunning and wily creatures nor
supernatural creatures but people just like us, societies that have
a lot of shortcomings and problems who admit and think on overcoming
and resolving their shortcomings and problems.
Armenia needs to simplify Europe and serve it as it is. Nobody has
done this so far. For example, television, the most popular media in
Armenia, never tells about Europe aside from some translated news or
travel shows.
The Armenian television does not televise an average European with
his quality of life, achievements and problems, perceptions of human
relations, culture of social coexistence. As soon as the public
consciousness is cleared of myths, and Europe and the Europeans are
perceived as part of mankind, the mind and heart of Armenians will
start working calmly and will defy the Soviet Russian propaganda.
When Europe transforms from a supernatural example to a practical
image, it will help the Armenian citizens to review their self-esteem
and the limit of their assumptions of possibilities of human societies.
Otherwise, Europe in Armenia is limited to trainings and seminars in
the conference halls of Armenia's resorts. They are also necessary of
course, but when it is limited to this scope, a generally inefficient
and vulnerable environment is shaped which harms the real link between
Armenia and Europe, as well as the conference hall initiatives.
The consequence is that there is no conscious public demand for the
European integration (except among a small active civil circle),
the public opinion is manipulated, the real political necessity for
European integration is misrepresented.
The general narrative of the new EU package shows awareness of the
existing problems, and it stems from the public and national interests
of Armenia. The development and application of an effective mechanism
for the solution of this issue will change essentially the depth and
content of the EU-Armenia relations, as well as the balance of forces
in Armenia, lowering the scale of the society of Armenia in domestic
and foreign issues.
17:55 14/02/2014 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31923