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We know conventionally that he lives 'somewhere around Boston' When Americans ask me where I was born, I don't say the actual country that no longer exists (US
by ph0rque 13y ago
We know conventionally that he lives 'somewhere around Boston'
When Americans ask me where I was born, I don't say the actual country that no longer exists (USSR) nor the country that it is called now (Kazakhstan). I simply say Russia. The reason is that it's simpler for Americans to understand Russia.
- sejje 13y agoWhat makes you think we understand Russia better than we understand Kazakhstan? Maybe you wish to have imparted your culture or something, however I don't expect most people have any reasonable idea what the culture is like in neither Russia nor Kazakhstan. Are you just hoping they know where it is on the map?
- ternaryoperator 13y agoI think he means it's easier to understand in the same way we would tell a Russian that we're American, rather than from Ohio.
- ph0rque 13y agoI should have expounded: I am ethnically Russian, as both of my parents' families moved from Russia to Kazakhstan when it was all USSR. So if I were to say I was born in Kazakhstan, most Americans would have no idea where it is. Those that know something about Kazakhstan would ask why I don't look Kazakh. Thus I just answer with Russia.