As an Asian person, this sounds like a lot of the bs people online say about Chinese people, so I guess I’m more sensitive to this kind of stuff.

  • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    Is she sure where her husband is from? They call him хохол. It is a Russian slur for people from Ukraine. See here. It doesn’t mean “pig”.

    But all the other claims are just anecdotes. But the worst part is to say, that someone’s bad behaviour has something to do with its culture. This is not true. Russia is a state with a bunch of cultures and different ethnicities.

    Racism and nationalistic tendencies are a big rising problem there because it is endorsed by the state (Lenin wrote enough about the great-Russian chauvinism). But nothing of it is genuine Russian. Compare the actual Russian society to how it was 50 years ago, totally different.

    I am quite tired right now and so I won’t go into detail. It feels more like this persons doesnt like russians, because she had a bad experience with some. Yeah, this can happen.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      10 months ago

      хохол. It is a Russian slur for people from Ukraine

      Poland fact: in polish, “chochoł” (pronounced very similarly as in Russian), while rarily used for Ukranians despite the same etymology from the cossack hairstyle, is much more insulting because it means “strawman”, so calling a man (it’s specifically masculine insult) chochoł is expressing quite high level of disdain.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          10 months ago

          Basically yeah, not many people will make the connection between it and Ukraine. Most used is as common word for the straw protection from frost draped on trees or sheaves or potato pits etc., or scarecrow.

          For example: chochoły on the field

          It also have tons of folk and literature meanings, which aren’t very relevant, mostly about farming.

          • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            10 months ago

            Those look spooky as fuck I wouldn’t wanna spot that on the horizon while wandering the fields of Poland

    • EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      10 months ago

      Might easily be from Russia. A lot of Russian immigrants in the west are libshits that fled imaginary persecution, desperate to prove they didn’t uproot their entire life for nothing. You can imagine what sort of people those are. The sort of shit in the post is exactly what they tend to spread about Russia.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    10 months ago

    Wow! I can’t believe everyone clapped after they put those damn evil orcs in their place! Thanks for gold kind stranger!

    I’ve met asshole Russians before, doesn’t mean everyone from Russia is an asshole. I don’t know why this is such a hard concept for people to grasp. If you meet an asshole, you just met an asshole. Doesn’t mean they come from a country where everyone is an asshole.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    10 months ago

    “Russians have no concept of love and compassion and they treat everyone terribly.” - Definitely not the schizophrenic thoughts of a genocidal racist.

  • EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    10 months ago

    What a confused thought-salad…

    Is it culture “from what you know”? Is it propaganda? Economy? Does this go for every country still or is it something Americans only did during the cold war?

    Shit, at least smear me properly!

  • GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    10 months ago

    Is there a term for the belief of, “it’s their culture to do x”? I’ve heard this argument before about other countries as a crutch to why socialism isn’t viable.

    I’m tempted to say chauvinism or just plain racism but I’m not sure if it’s both, one or neither.

    Appreciate any comrades who might be able to help me on this one.

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’m going to be honest, this statement can be applied to every group in the fucking world. You can replace Russian with Portuguese and it’s the same. If you based Portuguese culture on the behaviour of some of my family members you’d think its the worst country on the planet.

    cult of violence

    This is said with sincerity, I know, but its still to hard to hear. How can one say this? What do they even mean by “cult of violence?” Some Portuguese customs are pretty brutal (mainly related to pig slaughter), does that mean they also have a cult of violence? A family member of mine advocated for nuking China, does that mean all of Portugal disrespects human rights? I don’t get it, I really don’t.

    You encountered some mean people, so what? Get over it and yourself.