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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Can't remember which interview it was in those links, but she said something like - People don't understand Russian people and culture. They are shocked when they behave the way they do, because physically they look like us and it's shocking when people who look like us step out of bounds. If they were purple skinned covered in dots, people could easily understand why they think and act differently than us and it would make sense. Instead, they have many physical features that we have, so it makes it harder to understand why they are the way they are.
I'm paraphrasing what she said, but that always stuck with me. Makes sense given that for the most part, most Westerns simply don't understand most aspects of russian culture or mentality so it makes it extra shocking when they do the things they do. Lots of "aren't all 'white' people supposed to think like us?".
She really is a great source of information and a valuable resource. Her interviews are very interesting and worth watching if you want to really understand russian psyche and why their has been such failure over the years trying to integrate them into our "world". Because simply, we don't understand how they think and keep trying to relate them to our own world view.
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Further to what you paraphrased, she flipped the script and indicated that Russians/Ukrainians/Belarussians etc understand America and it's policies more so than we understand their's. It's true.
A lot of the modern world will understand higher level American politics, sports, culture and more. A lot of American's know very little about things outside their state and their border.
I recall seeing some of the conversations American's were having about Trump's impeachment over his call with Zelensky and asking him to investigate Hunter Biden and potentially withholding aid. Personally I think it was a done move to pursue him over that specific situation as a lot of American's just didn't and still don't understand it.
People were like, Zelensky?? Isn't he a hockey player? Ukraine, where is that? Next to Russia? I thought they were Russian? So Trump had a call with the guy and wanted to send him supplies and what about Hunter Biden?
Off topic: Does anybody know how I can post the youtube videos so they actually show up in the post?