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Written by Kapunta on 2024-08-20 at 10:10

one thing i find annoying and harmful about the russian is that they equate their language with their identity.

imagine a foreigner wants to ask you something. first they say "do you speak english?" or "parlez-vous francais?". i had someone walk up to me and ask "are you russian?".

i'm not russian. i do speak your language. i wish i didn't. would this logic be applied to other colonised countries? would a french person call a congolese person french because they speak the same lanaguage?

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Written by Kapunta on 2024-08-20 at 10:12

yesterday i spoke to a russian woman. she was nice. she didn't feel wrong saying "the belarusain and the russian are basically the same people".

this is how identities get erased. russia successfully assimilated a whole continent of nations. we are next. in the end the dominant culture wins and gets enforced.

you want me to be you. get lost.

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Written by WimⓂ️ on 2024-08-20 at 17:20

@kapunta It's very annoying, isn't it?

Sometimes it's just ignorance. I speak Dutch but I am not Dutch (I am Flemish). Still, because it's my mother tongue, lots of people think I must be Dutch.

(Usually they get it even more wrong and ask if I'm German.)

Then again, I don't think any Dutch person would say that Dutch and Flemish people are the same. It's like you say, a matter of dominant culture.

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