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Yes, Russian neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan.
by itg 11y ago
Yes, Russian neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y agoKazakh.
- melted 11y agoActually, the surname seems to be Armenian. :-)
- aksquestions 11y agoEthnic Russian from Kazakhstan.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoAttributing the correct ethnicity seems to matter a lot more outside of the US, Canada, and Commonwealth. I got an earful (screenful?) for calling a historical ethnic Russian painter Ukrainian, just because he was born in current-day Ukraine. This all predates the current conflict, and was from someone I'd consider educated, too.
- mavdi 11y agoIn my experience US, Canada and Commonwealth are the ones obsessed with (positively or negatively) ethnicity and race.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoRace, yes, but nobody born here asks me "where are you from?" upon first meeting, whereas I get this a lot from europeans and people from more tribal societies.
- pen2l 11y agoI'm an American, and I get asked "where are you from?" almost every time I meet a new person here (in America). I look very non-American and have an accent most people find hard to pin down, so I'm thinking that the question is just not posed to people who look and 'speak' very American.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoWell, I'm Canadian, so we can't really compare. I look brown, but have a basically Toronto / SF accent.
- roywiggins 11y agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nikola_Tesla/Nationality_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nikola_Tesla/Nationality_...