T l lyan agreed that what has changed is the strategy. The goal is always to organize the diaspora the better to utilize it. Armenia is not disposed to give the diaspora anything, argued Beledian. And anything it may have to offer is of little use to the diaspora. Say Armenian textbooks are on offer.
Textbooks prepared in Armenia are necessarily obsolete at birth.
They cannot correspond to our local values and, besides, the people who would prepare them are fundamentally ignorant. A large segment of the intellectual elite in Armenia is insular. For them nothing exists on the outside. There is no outside culture, no outside world, no need to interact, to change. In ten years, there has been no change.