Armenia Rules & Etiquette

Rules & Etiquette

Armenia is much like any other European country, though still a bit more old fashioned. Shorts are newly catching on for men, though skirts have been extremely short for years. However, locals tend to be very accepting that tourists, as guests, have different habits and it would be hard to offend a local by actions which an ordinary American might not find offensive as well. That having been said, refusing someone's hospitality is a tricky art! The issue of the Armenian Genocide, in which the Armenian people and a majority of Western scholars believe up to one and a half million Armenians were killed by the Young Turk government during World War One, is a sensitive one, and respect should be shown when discussing the subject.