The U.S. #Armenian community is best viewed as the product of two sets of intense, opposing forces—centripetal pressures binding #Armenians closer together, and centrifugal pressures pushing them apart.
In U.S. immigration and census records up to 1920 all #Arabs, Turks, #Armenians, and more were classified as coming from "Turkey in Asia," and not until recently did the Immigration and Naturalization Service recognize "#Palestinian" as a nationality
