The issue of the national minorities is very topical in all over the world, even in the developed European countries.
The globalization, the relative liberalization of the human travel and the several other adjacent factors have made the picture quite an interesting one, when several European capitals lose their “ethnic faces.” In Paris or Berlin, for example, the quantity of newcomers multiplies quickly. It is a big difficulty for them to integrate into French or German systems of values.
These states start to apply preventive means to contain the quickly changing ethnic picture into certain frames. For Armenia this issue may be not quite urgent.
In our country the national minorities compose 2 % of the total population.
Great number ov Yezidis live side by side with Armenians, study their native language and preserve their own culture.
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