Idiots do that. Resenting a whole people for the acts of one asswipe. Not every Russian want this war. Not every person loves war. Stupid propaganda shit from both sides.
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you couldn't be more right, my friend
We're all the same apes, we just speak different languages βΊοΈ To answer your initial question (in proxy, am no Russian) btw: The russian friends i have do not feel more xenophobia than before. In Russia that is. I'd say here they totally would, considering how hating Russia became the new normal (and also considering how many Ukrainians fled to here)
Not really. Mostly online there's some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it's not the worst thing happening right now.
I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov't is also disappointing.
Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I'd bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they'd laught if off or say something like "I just like Putin, he's so funny". It's been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It's been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist "charismatic" leaders though. Please don't make me have to immigrate again.
No quantity of "I told you so" will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don't always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don't necessarily relate directly to them.
At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.
Hugs, hope you are in a safer place now! I hope that that Putin hits the dust soon.
Thanks! Yeah I'm in the UK, not great, not terrible, and I hope whoever comes after is better but I honestly can't even begin to speculate how you could actually permanently fix Russia's jingoism.
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Im not sure if this is relevant but I completely agree
Usernamme
I live in the US and I havenβt noticed any xenophobia. I have heard a couple of people refer to βRussiansβ like we are a monolith but they were still understanding of someone like me who is very anti-war.
Also, if you're still in Russia, are you okay with taking over neighboring countries? If not, are you able to leave, or have they shut down travel?
You can still leave but you might have to jump through hoops. My mom had to go to Kazakhstan to get an American visa to come visit me because all embassies are closed in Russia.
Not in Russia. Definitely not OK. Left 10 years ago, don't want to look back. I wish there was an easy way for people to expatriate but even with no travel shutdowns most people are too poor to really migrate somewhere. Unfortunately same is often true for Ukrainians.
I mean, I'm guessing it's not going to be as bad as during the Cold War, and even back then they were white and there were plenty who settled in North America and contributed their 1/32 of ancestry, so I'm not aware of much stigma ever being present here.