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From the surname, Melkonian sounds ethnic Armenian. So it may not be a case of "a random American".
by sn41 4y ago
From the surname, Melkonian sounds ethnic Armenian. So it may not be a case of "a random American".
- cool_dude85 4y agoI have an Irish surname despite having never been to the island in my life. What would you call it if I was leading a division of the Irish army to try and retake Derry?
- pessimizer 4y agoThe average Armenian-American has more connections to Armenians in Europe than the average Irish-American has to Ireland.
- notch656a 4y agoMay be true, but generally Americans outside of a few backwater racist areas will consider it valid to refer to someone as an 'American' if they were born here, unless they renounced citizenship. And doubly so if they were born here and spent the vast majority of their childhood here.
- notch656a 4y agoI'm curious why you put "random" in quotations.
- egiboy 4y agoMelkon is the Armenian form of the name "Melchior", so yes.