• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    That is if we’re talking Russians as an ethnicity. The terms are conflated in English, but no so much in Russian.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I’m aware that there are two words in the Russian language that are both simply translated into English as “Russian”: the one for ethnicity and the one for citizenship. I didn’t feel the need to point it out since most people think only of the former.

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        Fair enough. I felt the need to mention it to highlight the absurdity of separation. Asian, “white”. Which am I? Apparently depends on time of the day