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Only when visiting. Not when
living there for most people of color.
Are you talking to me? On what are you basing this statement? Russia's Native people tend to hang out with the African students when they're in university. It makes sense; both groups generally put up with the same cr@p, except nowadays the African students have it a lot worse.
Are you talking to me? On what are you basing this statement? Russia's Native people tend to hang out with the African students when they're in university. It makes sense; both groups generally put up with the same cr@p, except nowadays the African students have it a lot worse.
Then why was Russian mobs attacking blacks
in the news?
Why is Russia not one of the countries of choice
when most blacks decide to visit another land?
I believe that many American Blacks do not have an overwhelming desire to travel to Russia because of the familiarity of brutal racism unlike Africans and other ethnic minorities there
Trust me there not even thinking about racism, its the money...lol
Then why was Russian mobs attacking blacks
in the news?
Why is Russia not one of the countries of choice
when most blacks decide to visit another land?
You're not getting it. The context of our little digression here was that someone's son was stationed somewhere in Siberia or a Native area of the Russ. Far East. So we were (I thought) discussing how Siberian Indigenous people relate to Black people, not how Slavic Russians relate to them. Those two things are like night and day.
You're not getting it. The context of our little digression here was that someone's son was stationed somewhere in Siberia or a Native area of the Russ. Far East. So we were (I thought) discussing how Siberian Indigenous people relate to Black people, not how Slavic Russians relate to them. Those two things are like night and day.
Oh ok. Siberian Indigenous people are basically
Asians right.
Don't listen to a thing anyone says. If I listened to every fear-mongering story of racism, I'd never travel anywhere. Maybe that's why so many black Americans don't. There is no singular "black experience". Russians don't have some collective feeling towards you. Everyone will have different experiences depending on paranoia, age, how friendly they are, whether they are in a big city or small town.
Two rather big determining factors are whether or not you are attractive & whether or not you look affluent. For example, in Italy, the blacks I came across were mostly African. They don't look like me & they were on the outskirts of society, selling their wares and sticking together. I was a well-dressed tourist who was doing the buying. The average Italian could instantly see they had more in common with me.
Some countries are a bit more insular or have a greater deal of poverty, so they are averse to nearly any immigrant, including ones that look like them. Many blacks would interpret it as racism, seemingly clueless that, many times, it has to do with being a foreigner.
So, maybe you will run into issues. Maybe it will be because you're foreign, maybe because of racism, maybe it will be in your head. Bottom line is, everyone (whites included) run into folks who don't care for them. It's not s separate category when it happens to blacks.
If I let the experience of other black people influence my reality, I never would've even tried to catch taxis in NYC. Turns out, I've never had a problem getting a taxi, but tons of blacks will warn you about it all day.
Why is Russia not one of the countries of choice
when most blacks decide to visit another land?
For foreigners, the image is not always positive Russia. Putin, cold, lack of diasporas.
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