Posted on 03/19/2023 8:46:27 PM PDT by ganeemead
Russians as Asiatics: Memory about the Present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2013
Dmitry Shlapentokh
Abstract
History as recorded very often follows the desire of political pragmatists. Nineteenth-century French views of Russia are a good example. France was in conflict with Russia through most of that century. As racism grew across Europe, French historians presented Russians as brutish Asiatics and a mortal threat to civilized Europe. The Russo-French alliance in 1894 changed these views, but the stereotypes continued to hibernate in the collective subconscious of the West to be resurrected in times of political expediency.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/abs/russians-as-asiatics-memory-about-the-present/D2E4D5A6721A5B2D69DFA41025841F1D
It's telling that you have to resort to a fantasy character and an ad hominem argument because reality simply doesn't correspond to your beliefs.
This is pretty low...
I think it's worse than that. "Committed" implies making a choice. IMO Rusia's form of imperialism is, to quote a Klingon Captain in Star Trek TNG, "bred in the bone". Or (staying with Star Trek paraphrasals), it is far easier for a civilized man to behave like a barbarian, than for a barbarian to behave like a civilized man. The latter is not a choice, the "barbarian" simply has not evolved the capacity to think like a civilized man. Pooty and his crowd literally lack the ability* & experience to pursue a course other than imperial aggression to counter what they see as a socio-economic threat.
Putin could have chosen something more like the Chinese model of 1980 to approx. 2010, but hasn't. The model of, say, Poland, has been successful too, while remaining fairly socially conservative. Instead, Putin's Russia stays "old school Russia." And a lot of Russians are fine with that.
*"Bred in the bone"? Well, until a few days ago I'd have thought that did not actually mean a genetic disposition, but, have you seen the work being done that has found a "friendliness gene" in dogs, but it's not in other canines? But, that gene IS found in a genetic mutation discovered in "excessively friendly" humans!
“Russia’s form...”
Your plan to submit in advance to the wishes of any countries that have nukes is not a good plan.
It is public ridicule and humiliation.
Actually, it can be anything, so far all I have found is an internet meme photo, no source for what kind of protest she is doing or whatever.
This is the massive Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow that the commies had destroyed and that Putin has had rebuilt:
When was the last time anybody in North America or Europe built a new cathedral??
I surmise that this comes less from the genetics of Russians than from Russian culture and history. Most likely, within a decade or two, increasingly detailed genetic studies will offer a more grounded answer as to potential connections between national character and genetics. I expect that any such connections will be tenuous.
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