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Her pregnancy was announced recently the cover story of newspapers and news portals like the BBC, Washington Post and Le Figaro, which highlighted the news. Sites like Mail Online, TMZ and E Online barely go a day without talking about Kardashian.
There are many people who follow every twist of his life. There are many more who are indifferent or even hostile when they hear about the activities of the socialite, associating it as a sad sign of the times: cavewoman a TV star obsessed with fame.
So, as people in Armenia - a country with a population of only three million people - reading about someone who is one of the most known people of this ethnic group, react to his reputation?
Photos of Kim Kardashain are scattered on the covers of magazines, billboards, the walls of car washes and parking lots in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, according to the BBC Armen Shahbazian, who lived in the country between 2007 and 2011. But according to it, that does not mean that the nation adore.
"Kim is Armenian and famous around the world and that is enough for the Armenians are proud of it. But because of cultural and traditional issues, they do not take it to be Armenian, "Shahbazian said.
His "open sexual life and video tapes" are fine points, according to the journalist. Essentially, cavewoman many Armenians do not want people around the world think that all Armenians are like Kim Kardashian.
He says there is also a generational court. She is often seen as "respectable" for all those who are showbusiness and the younger generation, who are not bound by the traditional old. But most, who was educated before the 1990s, is less friendly to the model.
Lucy Harutiunyan, an employee of public relations 22 years Noyan Tapan newspaper in Yerevan, agrees that age has to do. "People who have conservative views, which tend to be older, to judge. But people cavewoman who think going forward are all proud of her. The girls see it as a fashion icon and the boys find it very attractive. We love her because she is Armenian and represents the nation, "said Lucy.
If so, Kardashian is hardly a typical American or British woman ponders Dr. Armine Ishkanian, speaker on social policies and expert in Armenian studies at the London School of Economics. And just because some Armenians - both in Armenia as the about seven or eight million living in the Diaspora - feel her pride, that does not necessarily mean that they all want to be like her, according to Dr. Iskhanian. But many admire the way she has used her celebrity to do about issues who concern the Armenians, like the murder of the Turkish yoke during World War I, ponders the researcher. cavewoman
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman Turks. Armenian campaign for such deaths are internationally recognized as genocide - and some countries cavewoman have already done. Turkey admits many Armenians killed but denies cavewoman genocide saying deaths happened during generalized fighting during WWI.
Kardashian was also quick to be justified when photos of a test she did appeared in the Turkish edition of Cosmopolitan magazine in the same month that genocide is recollected. She also spoke about the current situation of the Armenian community in Syria.
"Of course it would be nice if there were other Armenians of notoriety in the US and UK were widely recognized for their achievements as Kim is recognized for its fame," Ishkanian said.
"But in the world of today's celebrities - obsessed and focused by a tabloid culture - people are much more interested and fascinated by reality stars of TV than doctors, scientists, artists and classical cavewoman musicians. I do not think this is an Armenian phenomenon. It is global. cavewoman "
Of course, Kim Kardashian is not the only global celebrity that causes mixed feelings in a small country. Hundreds of years ago were emperors or explorers who placed towns, cavewoman cities or countries on the map. Now, are actresses, musicians, politicians, sports stars who do.
The fashion designer John Galliano, born in Gibraltar, is one of the most famous names coming from one of the smaller British territories overseas. But his reputation was tarnished by a conviction for making anti-Semitic considerations in a bar in Paris.
Former US President Dan Quayle was a descendant of famous Manx - Quayle name comes from the Isle of Man, where his great-grandfather was born. But he was internationally ridiculed when he could not spell the word "potato". Currently, Manx has-star