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Being russian is not a race, just a passport type. They have a lot of blonde blue eyed people on the west (courtesy of vikings raping and killing those areas fo

Being russian is not a race, just a passport type. They have a lot of blonde blue eyed people on the west (courtesy of vikings raping and killing those areas for centuries), brown, black haired, asian in the east (courtesy of mongols doing exactly the same), typical muslim visage on the south. Basically all mixtures apart from Africans. Also, being russian is sort of lifestyle and comes with certain mindset, as internet memes documented darn too well in past decades. As for OP's remark, its harsh but not incorrect, same happened to most enslaved nations. Unless freedom was won by bloody mass revolution and whole movememnt had some momentum, tribes and nations who suddenly gained freedom know very little what to actually do with it, and mess up quite a few things in transition. I've seen it first hand in eastern Europe, as soon as russians moved away from their decades long enslaving occupation.

medo-bear 4y ago
lol this is so stupid. being russian is as much an ethnicity as it is a nationality. if you make derisive prejudicial comments about an ethnic group that is racism
- saiya-jin 4y ago
  With that logic, you can't say ever any critical remark about a group of people (since they can self-identify as ethnicity XYZ and who are you to say otherwise), because it all gets siphoned into 'that's racism' outrage. If anything, it should be labeled 'ethnicism', in fact thats a proper word so lets be factual. What about, instead of this totalitarian auto-censorship outrages in anonymous online forums, we discuss actual topics? I wasn't bashing russians specifically mind you, rather pointing out that generally nations that got their freedom way too fast then didn't know how to handle such freedom well. Collapse of CCCP created a massive sphere of such countries. As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    ops remark that russians have a brainwashed slave mentality is plain-as-day racist. you saying that its harsh but true is also racist. you saying that being russian is somehow a lifestyle choice also makes it very hard to take you seriously > As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard rest assured you are not a special snowflake
  - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
    I don't "self-identify" as anyone, I have a birth certificate issued by the Kazakh government that plainly identifies me as ethnically Russian. Since the beginning of 2022, that has been enough to receive limitless amounts of vitriol and death threats from people such as yourself.
5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
I am ethnically Russian, and I have never held Russian citizenship (and have no desire to), and also have never lived there. You're just waving hands around trying to cover your *-cisms. Next you'll be telling us that Russians do not exist (you're already basically saying that). Now, who does that one remind me of, let me think... I recognize that I live in a bubble and have a small circle of friends, but neither I, nor any one of them adhere to that stereotype you've mentioned that is supposedly required to "be Russian".

medo-bear 4y ago

lol this is so stupid. being russian is as much an ethnicity as it is a nationality. if you make derisive prejudicial comments about an ethnic group that is racism

saiya-jin 4y ago
With that logic, you can't say ever any critical remark about a group of people (since they can self-identify as ethnicity XYZ and who are you to say otherwise), because it all gets siphoned into 'that's racism' outrage. If anything, it should be labeled 'ethnicism', in fact thats a proper word so lets be factual. What about, instead of this totalitarian auto-censorship outrages in anonymous online forums, we discuss actual topics? I wasn't bashing russians specifically mind you, rather pointing out that generally nations that got their freedom way too fast then didn't know how to handle such freedom well. Collapse of CCCP created a massive sphere of such countries. As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard
- medo-bear 4y ago
  ops remark that russians have a brainwashed slave mentality is plain-as-day racist. you saying that its harsh but true is also racist. you saying that being russian is somehow a lifestyle choice also makes it very hard to take you seriously > As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard rest assured you are not a special snowflake
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  I don't "self-identify" as anyone, I have a birth certificate issued by the Kazakh government that plainly identifies me as ethnically Russian. Since the beginning of 2022, that has been enough to receive limitless amounts of vitriol and death threats from people such as yourself.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago

I am ethnically Russian, and I have never held Russian citizenship (and have no desire to), and also have never lived there. You're just waving hands around trying to cover your *-cisms. Next you'll be telling us that Russians do not exist (you're already basically saying that). Now, who does that one remind me of, let me think... I recognize that I live in a bubble and have a small circle of friends, but neither I, nor any one of them adhere to that stereotype you've mentioned that is supposedly required to "be Russian".