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There are others in the country whose looks don’t fit the profile of an Aryan Ukrainian, a profile celebrated by Ukrainian nationalists enjoying their moment in a lot of places of power in the country, other much more vulnerable than Zhan, who for different reasons came to Ukraine from Africa and now have to experience racism on the streets almost every day.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Let's hope the Aryan nationalist thing is just a passing phase. As to the rest of it, this is normal for people who have been very isolated from the world for generations. Villages in eastern Europe are as far from cosmopolitan awareness as you can get.
Interesting. A French ultraconservative has recently shocked a lot of people when he said that in a central Parisian metro hub he felt isolated "among the negroes". The racist innuendo nothwistanding, he isn't completely wrong.As "negroes" I suppose would feel isolated in most Eastern european cities.
It's what I call the "Bedford wives" syndrome , and it's not racist. I had the same feeling recently in a train quasi exclusively full of "Young white professionals with laptops". It's the lack of diversity that is unpleasant in my book.
I don't enjoy being in the middle of the same crowd, I enjoy variety. But with globalization diversity will progressively trickle down in Eastern Europe too.
Being different in the middle of a sea of people that have nothing in common with you can be isolating.... Ukraine is a nation with a sad history filled with terror, abuse, genocide.
They are forming their character as a nation in an aggressive world (Russia always breathing down their necks trying to manipulate them), it must be hard being a Ukrainian!
Also, you cannot expect people from countries that never had colonies and that were never really multicultural to be "trained" to live in a cosmopolitan society.
MY grandma grew up in her village and lived there her whole life, when she left her village and went to NYC she was shocked to see black and Asian people and at times she said it felt weird being in the middle of so many black people and Asian people! Was my grandma racist? no.... she was just never exposed to that experience, she never wished bad upon black or asian people, nor she ever felt they were below her, she was just not used to them.
So you can't expect a Ukrainian to be PC like people in London are!! It's not like you walk around Ukraine and you find hordes of foreigners, you know?
Ukraine may survive as a European nation. Most of the rest of Europe seems bent on becoming Islamic republics this century. How dare the Ukrainians not commit suicide like Sweden, Britain and France are doing...
Is there anyone haven't yet woken up to the fact that Ukrainian CIA-staged revolution is not meant to lead to any kind of "democracy", "equality", "human rights", etc (but to the opposite)? Ukraine is a much scarier place after the coup and the kind of corrupt criminals they're putting in the positions of power speaks for itself (ex: Saakashvili, Kolomiyksiy, etc). A frightening union of the worst, the greediest colonialist foreign interests, local mafia and neonazis is all that is.
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