Armenian point of view:
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Keeping_a_home_in_Georgia_and_a_heart_in_Armenia
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The biggest concern Armenians have in Georgia is assimilation. They say the best chance to have success in Georgia is to change the Armenian surname suffix to shvili or dze.
An Armenian student of the State University in Tbilisi says she was told she should change her name before applying for her PhD diploma.
The truth is that even after succeeding in getting a PhD, there is no chance to get a well-paying job with an Armenian name, the student says.
If Armenians now feel like second-class citizens, it has not always been so.
According to an 1821 census, Armenians far outnumbered Georgians in the capital at that time. In Tbilisi, Armenians will show many architectural pearls constructed by prominent Armenian architects of the last centuries. Mansions built by influential Armenians of long ago are among the most attractive buildings in Tbilisi.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, rich Armenian merchants, jewelers and oil industrialists invested heavily in business and helped build cultural centers and schools.
Today in Old Tbilisi, the Caravanserais, the popular trade centers of the 18th and 19th centuries owned by Armenians are being renovated turned into modern salons, boutiques, restaurants. And the gentrification is also removing traces of the districts Armenian past, as signs that once said Bari Galust (welcome) are being covered over by new, non-ethnic, facades.
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