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Kazarian, Shahe S.. "Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor" Humor, vol. 26, no. 2, 2013, pp. 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2013-0021

Kazarian, S. (2013). Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor. Humor, 26(2), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2013-0021

Kazarian, S. (2013) Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor. Humor, Vol. 26 (Issue 2), pp. 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2013-0021

Kazarian, Shahe S.. "Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor" Humor 26, no. 2 (2013): 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2013-0021

Kazarian S. Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor. Humor. 2013;26(2): 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2013-0021

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Last week, I wrote a column about Ronn Torossian, the president of 5W Public Relations firm in New York City, who had signed a contract for $60,000 to do PR work for the Republic of Turkey in the United States.

I wrote that I did not know whether Torossian was an ethnic Armenian or simply had an Armenian last name, since some Jews and Iranians also have Armenian last names. Before writing the previous column, I had attempted to contact him and had left two voice mail messages at his office, but he did not return my phone calls.

After writing that column, I received several emails and phone calls from Mr. Torossian. However, he requested that our phone conversations be off the record. I also received many emails and phone calls from Armenians around the world who knew the Torossian family.

I also noticed that several readers had posted comments under my column in various websites, insisting that Torossian was not an Armenian, but simply Jewish or Iranian who carried an Armenian last name. Those commenters were basing their presumptions on the fact that all of the articles about Mr. Torossian online referred to him as being Jewish and mentioned his extensive record of activism and involvement in Jewish causes and organizations.

However, I was informed by a Canadian Armenia

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