Here is a very interesting article written by a Rusky that it is not totally bleak and depressing . It's more interesting than Evil's rubbish about submarines , missiles and fighter plane sales ( !!!!! joke Evil . Not really !! ) . You are welcome to comment but I have posted it more for general interest and enjoyment . We would probably have to admit that post-Soviet Russia seems to be living in a world that is deeply surreal, postmodernist and absurdist at times, and that trust is probably what it lacks most. Indeed, we tend not to have trust in governments, and this is reciprocated. We doubt the reliability of our healthcare system, our education system, science, trade, and transportation. And we are rather suspicious of foreigners, especially Westerners, which does not prevent us, however, from preferring European and U. S.-made merchandise, with domestically produced food being the only exception. We believe Thread started at Forum 4 Politics on 04-07-2012 05:50 AM
I recognize "rubbish by raymondo" every time I see it, without looking at the poster's signature or avatar
Wrong again , Stay Home Alone . I wish I could give you just 10% of my talents to give you a meaningful life . Guess I am too caring . Anyhow , Busy, Busy . I am sure you are finding us another juicy Racist thread in between your fantasy air flights .Love a laugh .
You just do not think that Raimondo is a racist. Because Raimondo does not know who he is. Sometimes he is say that he Georgian ( main Nation of the Georgia country ) sometimes or he is an Englishman,sometimes he is just something ,as Raymonodo say about itself . http://www.politicalforum.com/russia-eastern-europe/236053-eu-set-grant-serbia-candidate-status-5.html
But you mentioned about it . But the name of the thread was created by Raymondo, and only you saw something in this thread's name about spirit of racism. Maybe then you are Racist?
Russia has so few black people, even on public television in the news these people rarely shows .I do not know about this problem.
If you have any talents, so far they're invisible. Just a (*)(*)(*)(*)-load of ostentatious, self-important, pompous crap. You're a joke
In Russia, the word "blacks" has different meaning; it is not negroes who are called blacks, but the Central Asians - Turkmen, Kirghiz and especially Azerbaijanis. And yes, the Russians do not like them. African blacks are not paid any attention to; there are many of them in Moscow, and you can frequently hear an African black speaking perfect Russian, which is almost never the case with Central Asian people.
You are wrong. Dutch absolutely correctly has given you the meaning of the word "black" in Russian understanding of this word. Speaking "black" we usually mean immigrants from Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. As to African people we use the word Negr. But this word has no offensive shade in Russian language, this is just a designation of a racial belonging, nothing more. Similarly to words as German, Englishman, Spaniard, Chinese and so on, that tell us about ethnicity. No doubt, you can meet a racist which does not love africans among neo-Nazis and skinheads. But this is very small and specific part of the population. The others 99,99 % of the population do not pay attention to africans which live in Russia, because we have very few immigrants from the countries of Africa. So we have the paradoxical situation - those few immigrants from Africa which live here, having no own diaspora in Russia, are compelled to live among Russian cultural environment and quickly enough integrated into Russian society. While we have several millions immigrants from Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. Some of them come in Russia having racist feelings towards Russians. Usually these people live inside own diaspora, not wishing to be integrated and cause crimes. There is a statistics: for example at 2004 so-called ethnic criminal groups have caused 64 % of all crimes fixed in territory of Russia. This situation generates Russian racism towards immigrants as response. I do not want to justify racism. Any racism is the savagery in my understanding. But speaking about this phenomenon we should speak about not only Russian or West European racism towards immigrants. We should not forget racism of immigrants towards aboriginals of the European countries. This racism is not better at all than Russian or West-European one.
So, basically, what you're saying is Russians don't have a problem with skin colour on the whole, but what they see as out of control immigration.
Potap trying to speak the language of the people's encyclopedia, this is his own business, but it is a spit to direction of internationalism of Russia. About topic, yes here it is a problem in the migration service,but all of these problems are largely solved with the help of the state budget,illegal migrants sends their homeland . Think of it as about the costs of the transition period in the history of the USSR. USSR still exist.
Not quite true. The USSR has a very good image, I'd rather know about it. But I am not too much older . lol
I think racism is caused by differences in cultural traditions. Color of a skin is just a thing which is evident. But people with other color of skin usually belong to other culture. People which belong to the European race have different color of eyes and hair. But nobody pay attention to color of hair and color of eyes. Blue-eyed blonds have no racism towards brown-haired tribesmen, because blonds and brown-haired persons belong to the same culture.