While walking on the street I saw some travel agency and advertisement on its door: "Special course for tourists! Survive abroad!". What does it mean, god damn it?? Of course I understand that its just a way of earning money, but if this thought took a place, then there is something.
Humanity have built SO many walls, so now we need guides like this - "sirviving abroad". Really, are we so far from each other? Even nowadays, at the time of globalization and uniting? Could be...
In my russian blog I wrote a post about the reaction of people around on our interns. And in comments I got the same reaction as I wanted to provoke - agression, jealosy and misunderstanding. I don't know what is it - mentality, or humans nature, but it's always strange.
When you see a person who looks different, it's natural to look at him, cause all people are curious. But agression?..
Russia is a multinational country. More than 180 nationalities lives on its territory. Even in supermarket you can hear not russian language. Not english or some another "international" language, but different.
Russian people often says something like: "Russians are minority population in Russia". And this sentence has negative attitude. Like "Why here are so many emigrants??"
But let's take a look back at the history. Historically, this territory was populated by Eastern Slavic, Finno-Ugric, Balto-Slavic and Turkic tribes. Especially 200 years of Mongol overlordship we should take into consideration. Assimilation and so on. Also Russia is a federation which includes Tatarstan and Bashkortostan Republics, Jewish Autonomous Region, Chukchi Peninsula and etc.
So now it's natural to see in Russia not only people with Slavic appearance, as many foreigners use to think about Russia.
So, for Russians it's VERY strange and actually stupid to say something about "pure nation". We're international country. Just we used to it. People have to understand it more that something else.
Government implementing now a new campaign. Everywhere its posters - on billboards, in public transport, on TV. It says: "Love has many faces"; "friendship has many faces"; "in Russia lives more than 180 nationalities", "citizens of Russia speak more than 250 languages" and so on. And pictures of our nations.
When I saw it at first time I smiled and thought: "FINALLY!!!".
I hope we're moving on the right direction.
It Don't Matter If You're Black Or White
Michael Jackson
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