Somebody: I was thinking about this, and it occurred to me that there's a wealthy Armenian community in the U.S. Armenia, like a Christian counterpart to Israel, may be benefiting from the nationalistic goodwill of it's diaspora. Some quick and dirty internet research reveals that anywhere from a quarter to one third of the GDP is based on remittances and investment by Armenians living outside the country. Apparently the country even has a Ministry of the Diaspora to encourage this sort of thing.