America didn’t have a racism problem because it was uniquely heterogenous, the legacy of slavery meant it was particularly racist and segregated. Racism is a problem everywhere, but we need to stop grabbing on to the comforting lie that what we had was just the natural consequence of demographics.
And the Soviet Union had a whole ton of ethnicities. I don’t know about Armenia specifically, but that is right down at the confluence of multiple cultures, so we’re not looking at somewhere like Sweden.
When you’re dealing with the Soviet Union (which I remember as an actual nation, not just a line item in a history book) you were dealing with a nation that hid a phenomenal amount of abuse to any and every ethnicity that wasn’t actual Rus. To this day, my father’s family can not get information on our ancestry from Russia because of my ancestors ethnicity.
I guess the questio then is, what should be done to change history? Vote Democratic? Admit it happened?Yeah, I’m down with it… but what do you want from making this post? What have you discovered that others in the past have not? It’s like there’s all this finger pointing, but WHAT is the thing that the finger pointers want from this?
America didn’t have a racism problem because it was uniquely heterogenous, the legacy of slavery meant it was particularly racist and segregated. Racism is a problem everywhere, but we need to stop grabbing on to the comforting lie that what we had was just the natural consequence of demographics.
And the Soviet Union had a whole ton of ethnicities. I don’t know about Armenia specifically, but that is right down at the confluence of multiple cultures, so we’re not looking at somewhere like Sweden.
When you’re dealing with the Soviet Union (which I remember as an actual nation, not just a line item in a history book) you were dealing with a nation that hid a phenomenal amount of abuse to any and every ethnicity that wasn’t actual Rus. To this day, my father’s family can not get information on our ancestry from Russia because of my ancestors ethnicity.
Read up on the Holodomor.
This is just a second whatabout and doesn’t address my post at all.
I guess the questio then is, what should be done to change history? Vote Democratic? Admit it happened?Yeah, I’m down with it… but what do you want from making this post? What have you discovered that others in the past have not? It’s like there’s all this finger pointing, but WHAT is the thing that the finger pointers want from this?