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Author is Belarusian, not Russian, contrary to what many other comments say.
by lobito14 2y ago
Author is Belarusian, not Russian, contrary to what many other comments say.
- yreg 2y agoNot a single comment in this thread says the author is Russian.
- bhaney 2y ago[flagged]
- throwaway290 2y agoIn other threads from 2022 and 2023 they do
- Aeolun 2y agoDoes it really matter? Even if they were, it’s still amazing.
- beretguy 2y ago[flagged]
- armchairhacker 2y agoGovernment != people. Russia has a population of >140 million and not a democracy, you can’t accurately assume anything about a random civilian’s stance on Ukraine.
- epgui 2y agoThe parent commenter didn’t say anything about civilian Russians.
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- ivm 2y agoYes, it matters a lot with regard to the colonial history where Russian, Soviet, and Tsarist governments have tried many times to eliminate the local cultures and identities of both indigenous peoples and other Slavic neighbors like Belarusians and Ukrainians.
- antisthenes 2y agoYou have to be quite delusional or historically ignorant to think that current "civilized" Western nations didn't do the same in the Age of Sail or British India or colonizing Africa. For some reason I don't see your posts condemning that in every other thread?
- qwerty456127 2y agoBelorussian vs Russian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. The references we see in this demo clearly are what the whole Soviet Russian (Russia+Ukraine+Belarus+Kazakhstan etc) cultural space has been exposed to during the recent decades: American + Some European + domestic Soviet Russian retro + some Japanese (anime). This already looks extremely cool (a masterpiece of art!) yet it can be made even cooler (more interesting, also potentially a work of cultural science) by expanding to include more ethnically niche memes from other cultures.
- lambdaxyzw 2y agoThis is like saying that American or Canadian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. Technically true, but it's still a bit rude to confuse both nationalities.
- snowpid 2y agoA better comparision would be WASP American with Indigenious people. People died to be Belorussian.
- deaddodo 2y agoThat's a terrible comparison. Belorussian, Ukrainian and Russian people are ethnically and historically almost indistinguishable. Their main qualms are with cultural distinctions and relatively recent history (which is totally fair, and does not give the right for any of them to forcefully integrate/annex the others). WASPs and Native Americans are ethnically, culturally and historically completely distinct peoples. The American/Canadian example is almost a perfect 1:1 example.
- snowpid 2y agoThey have never been an attempt to force Canadians to become Americans by killing them or occupying them. This is the reason why it is a bad example.