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Sona Movsesian

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

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Was Your Father's Village in Armenia or in Turkey?

My grandparents, on my father's side were both orphans because of the geni side. And they grew up in this village. One of the reasons my dad emigrated here when he was about 16 was cause there was so much active hate and discrimination against armenians. They have a term there that's similar to any sort of derogatory term used towards ethnic communities. Didn't want to live among that sort of negativety any more; came here at around 16 years old. But it's very hard to be armenian in turkey. A lot of other armenian families have to change their last names because the ia i a n or the ya n at the the name is

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