The girl has gone mad!
Nune Yessayan will put on a 100$/ticket performance in Yerevan to raise funds for the family of the World Trade Centre victims. Can anyone else see the irony in this? I mean how can she expect that the average worker who makes about 34$-45$ a month will be able to afford such a thing? And why this cause? I read the article in armeniaweek.com (http://armeniaweek.com/april052002/nune.html) where she says that since the USA has helped Armenia so much it’s time for us to help them… hey, we’ve helped by sending thousands of new tax payers to that country! Seriously though, I agree that Armenia and Armenians in general should me more compassionate to issues concerning other nations. I applaud her innitiative to reach out and put Armenia on the international cultural scene. However, would it not have been smarter to reach out to those who are really in need? I assume that most of these families (for which the entire world gave money to – just Hollywood raised billions) who had a member working in those buildings had life insurances. And it’s not like they lost their homes. How much money could they need? Are we supplying their children with scholarships or what? I am not, under any circomstances saying that what happened wasn’t awful. It must’ve shattered many innocent lives… about 3500 and their families. But what about the millions of Afghan families that we don’t hear about as much from CNN or BBC (thanks to yet another U.S. alley who has shifted media’s attention to itself) ? What is really happening to them and their children? For the most part, they lost their homes, their jobs, their identity and their honour. When a parent has to watch their child die in their arms because they cannot find any food or medication to provide them with… this is where I would say the REAL needs are. SO, NUNE, if you want to be genuinly worried about the world, don’t cave into your American patrons who promise you a great furture in return for this or that favor.
I thought that Nune was a real artist and that she had values that made me proud … I am so dissapointed!
What do you think?
sorry for the spelling... my spellcheck seems to be sleeping already. It's 2 AM in Montreal.
Nune Yessayan will put on a 100$/ticket performance in Yerevan to raise funds for the family of the World Trade Centre victims. Can anyone else see the irony in this? I mean how can she expect that the average worker who makes about 34$-45$ a month will be able to afford such a thing? And why this cause? I read the article in armeniaweek.com (http://armeniaweek.com/april052002/nune.html) where she says that since the USA has helped Armenia so much it’s time for us to help them… hey, we’ve helped by sending thousands of new tax payers to that country! Seriously though, I agree that Armenia and Armenians in general should me more compassionate to issues concerning other nations. I applaud her innitiative to reach out and put Armenia on the international cultural scene. However, would it not have been smarter to reach out to those who are really in need? I assume that most of these families (for which the entire world gave money to – just Hollywood raised billions) who had a member working in those buildings had life insurances. And it’s not like they lost their homes. How much money could they need? Are we supplying their children with scholarships or what? I am not, under any circomstances saying that what happened wasn’t awful. It must’ve shattered many innocent lives… about 3500 and their families. But what about the millions of Afghan families that we don’t hear about as much from CNN or BBC (thanks to yet another U.S. alley who has shifted media’s attention to itself) ? What is really happening to them and their children? For the most part, they lost their homes, their jobs, their identity and their honour. When a parent has to watch their child die in their arms because they cannot find any food or medication to provide them with… this is where I would say the REAL needs are. SO, NUNE, if you want to be genuinly worried about the world, don’t cave into your American patrons who promise you a great furture in return for this or that favor.
I thought that Nune was a real artist and that she had values that made me proud … I am so dissapointed!
What do you think?
sorry for the spelling... my spellcheck seems to be sleeping already. It's 2 AM in Montreal.
posted by Raffi N at 11:00 AM
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