Submitted 6 days ago by voytek709@lemmy.ca to rant@lemmy.sdf.org
Obviously, not everyone is like this, if you’re not like this, I don’t mean you.
You can hate the Russian government or the culture or whatever, but you shouldn’t hate people. You shouldn’t hate people of Russian descent just because of where they came from, because of the language they speak, because of what the russian government is doing.
It always seems to come back to people judging folks for their demographics rather than their behaviour, the things they advocate, and the impact they have on the people and world around them
Judging people for their demographic is dumb.
One time I got banned from a site for speaking Russian. It wasn’t because he didn’t understand me, it was the language I was speaking.
Who the fuck hates people for their ancestry? I mean seriously that’s one of the fucking dumbest things any human could do!
It’s typical among losers that try to piggyback on the accomplishments of their own ancestors.
Stupid people intrinsically see value is taking credit for the work of others, and they project that mindset onto everyone else.
I gotta say that anecdotally I’ve heard how awesome and accepting and loving the people living under totalitarian governments are except for Russian people.
So I honestly apologize, it’s just been reinforced by my media consumption and lack of travel to learn and mingle.
I’m guessing you’re in Europe?
On this side of the pond people don’t register things as “ancestry” as in “being descendents of x nationality/ethnicity” unless it’s genuinely the previous or one before that generation.
Even the term “second generation immigrant” refers to different things.
I technically have some ancestry from what is now Russia. And I don’t think theres many generations I have to go back to reach some Swedish ancestry. But I’m Finnish, and it would be utterly ridiculous to even talk about being “descended oof Russian/Swedish ancestry”. And that on the other hand, happen constantly in the US.
Although again, I do understand the difference, as the US had many diasporas which tried keeping their ethnic identity. But also, they did develop a little differently.
What I’ve noted is that in the US it’s usually more a chosen identity thing / continues family tradition than an actual genetic thing.
Also, it’s a super white thing, as most of the slaves lost their origins throughout the years, as it was purposefully suppressed as well. And identifying with Africa in general is quite a large set in terms of specific cultural practices.
I’m thinking OP is less talking about actual ancestry than parentage. Which technically is ancestry but…
In the US itself, there’s also people that claim they’re every bit as Italian as someone born and raised in Italy, like it’s a biological race. I’ve only seen that a couple times and it doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic, but I’ll mention it anyway because it’s so very, very cringe.
I’m in the U.S. 😓
Weird. I have Russians in the mix and literally nobody has ever cared.
commander@lemmings.world 3 hours ago
There’s a lot of hysteria going on right now. I don’t subscribe to it, but most useful idiots do.
I’m sorry for any discrimination you have received from these idiots; they don’t know any better.