article_snippet.sent: (CNN)For years, when I'd tell new friends I was half-Armenian, a puzzled look would cross new friends faces, before new friends'd ask something like, "Do you have a country?
article_snippet.sent: Or, when there was a spark of recognition, new friends'd chortle, "Ah, you're the people with the last names all ending in 'ian'!
article_snippet.sent: In fact, one of our most famous Armenians, Cher, was better known for Kim Kardashian Oscar-winning portrayals of Italians, and had dropped Kim Kardashian own identifying surname.
article_snippet.sent: Standing in front of the statute of "Mother Armenia," Kim seemed to seize the label Kim, and the adoring crowds appeared to agree.
article_snippet.sent: On another stop of Kim tour, Kim dressed in a red jumpsuit, and placed tulips at the slate gray Armenian Genocide memorial complex, bringing new color to an issue and to a people who usually pay tribute to a people who usually pay tribute to their dead relatives every year in their best funereal black dead relatives every year in their dead relatives best funereal black.
article_snippet.sent: After the Kardashian trip to Armenia, my elderly mother Anahid called me nearly breathless with pride:  
article_snippet.sent: " my elderly mother Anahid's own father, Stepan Miskjian, with his own "ian" surname, had narrowly survived the killings.
article_snippet.sent: When the Kardashians first rose to fame, many Armenians cringed over many Armenians potboiler storyline, many Armenians million-dollar weddings to basketball players and rappers, multiple divorces, and a clothing line at Sears.
article_snippet.sent: Through many Armenians fame, though, people began to learn about Armenians -- even people outside Los Angeles, where the Armenian population is as thick as the Kardashian hair.
article_snippet.sent: That Americans may also have been equating the ancient culture with the latest "Keeping Up with the Kardashian" plotline was a source of discomfort for the community.
highlights_snippet.sent: Kim Kardashian says Armenian community has long sought global recognition of the atrocity, but Armenian community took a Kim Kardashian to catapult Armenian community into the news .