I was talking to a 21 year old Russian recently and he mentioned that older Russians, like his mom born in 1978, were basically raised to see everyone except China as an enemy. His mom lived through the collapse of the USSR and genuinely thinks everything is worse now. No real free speech, you can't own anything, the system screwed everyone over
Of course he told me that not everyone is like that, and he isn't like that himself. He basically said it's more of a boomer Soviet generation thing, that they're the ones who are distrustful and xenophobic toward foreigners, and that younger generations don't really have a say in how the country is run anyway
I'm just curious to know if this is true, what's really going on in Russia, and what Russians are actually like when it comes to their opinions on foreigners
yes. russia isnt a special anti racist anti xenophobic different than all of europe and to say so would be very offensive to the revolutionaries that died to change it.
Yeah... i mean he also taught me a slur called "churka" (чурка). He told me it literally meant a sawed off tree stump that just sits there doing nothing, and that it’s used mostly against darker skinned immigrants
Something you might find curious is that by "darker skinned immigrants" he probably meant...caucasians. As in ethnicities from the Caucasus. Also some people from Middle(Central) Asia. That one is mostly for them.
A Russian racist is more likely to use the n-word for people of African descent. The American n-word, not the Russian n-word. The latter is a neutral descriptor.
The fuck am I doing explaining slurs...
It was an entertaining (derogatory) experience reading the highlights of leaked Yandex source code where background workers were being called hard r n words