[Lazamataz]

Russian people — good people. ALL people — good people.

[don-o]

Russian people — good people. ALL people — good people.

We had a friend from Kazakhstan who would say: "Koryak" (our Vanya's ethnicity) "good people. Very good. Chechnyan bad people. Very bad."

[Mrs. Don-o]

THanks for that translation. Interesting.

When we adopted our Vanya, from Russian Far East tribal origins (Koryaks on the Kamchatka peninsula) our fellow Russian Orthodox parishioner and friend said "Ah, Koryaks, good people, good people." Then somehow the topic of the people of the Caucasus region came up, and he said, "Bad, Chechens, veddy bad people.'