Which countries/regions in Europe, Near East, and the New World can Armenians pass? Vote please!

**~~JMack~~** · 05-03-2017, 01:43 AM

They pass in most Latin American countries. I would say all South America and Mexico. The Caribbean and Central America are more difficult for these ones.

They also pass individually as balkanites or islanders in Southern Europe. As a group they don't pass at all. Individually some of them could pass in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well.

**Sloth Jesus** · 05-08-2017, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Frater Taciturnus

They pass in most Latin American countries. I would say all South America and Mexico. The Caribbean and Central America are more difficult for these ones.

They also pass individually as balkanites or islanders in Southern Europe. As a group they don't pass at all. Individually some of them could pass in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well.

To me some of them looked rather Iranian, others levantine (Syrian in particular). All in all they are pretty varied in their appearance but posses a look exactly from the Caucasus (it might just be me, but some people from the caucuses look as though they have unusually flat heads). A few of the woman gave me an almost Spanish vibe for whatever reason, but for the most part I think they would have the easiest time passing in the most eastern parts of the Balkans.

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**Tauromachos** · 06-16-2017, 06:35 PM

@Sikeliot

Why did you exclude Turkey from the possible choices?

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 06-16-2017, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by cybernautic

@Sikeliot

Why did you exclude Turkey from the possible choices?

Too obvious.

**Tauromachos** · 06-16-2017, 06:50 PM

Ok :-)

Some guys could be greeks,
Others could be more likely bulgarian or romanian.
The voting in these threads makes only really sense if you do it by the following
reasoning:

Voting a country A means ,that there is at least one picture with types that fit in this country.

In this sense i can give you a sample of votes

**liberty** · 06-21-2017, 02:11 PM

New World:

The place these folks would definitely feel "at home" in Brazil is definitely São Paulo State, where the world's largest Syrian-Lebanese diaspora, mostly Christian and very well established (staple among professionals), is based. Just as virtually everyone of East Asian is refered to as "Japa" in Brazil (since the Japanese are the most numerous East Asians here, as well as the earliest to arrive), most of these folks would be outright called "Turco(a)" (Syrians and Lebanese, also the first to arrive, had Ottoman passports) as soon as we placed our eyes upon them. As a side comment, I must say that for obvious reasons, if I was either a Christian Levantine or an Armenian, I would feel VERY offended everytime someone referred to me as a "Turco".

I hear Colombia, Argentina and Mexico also have significant Syrian-Lebanese communities, so I guess they are a safe bet for them too.

Old World:

The ones that could fit in Europe without seeming too exotic (a quarter of them I'd say), would certainly do best as groups in Sicily and Cyprus. The even fewer ones who happen to be dolichocephals and without a huge schnozzle (the most distinctive feature of Levantines - and one very absent in the Iberian Peninsula) could maybe fit in the Iberian Peninsula.