Make credence recognised that on Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:48:18 +0530,
"grusl" has scripted:
>It's not a question of hate. But I think mentally we decide some people, or
>groups of people, are "nice until proved otherwise or "not nice until proved
>otherwise". After too much sake in a Tokyo bar last month I asked a
>neighbouring Russian woman why so many people in her country were just so
>appalling. (Yes, great opening line, I know). Instead of ignoring me or
>giving me a slap she went into a lengthy discourse about how people were
>terribly confused since 1990 and how they hadn't really adjusted to life
>overseas and they weren't really as bad as I thought. They were abrasive,
>she said, partly because of people like me who automatically became
>defensive at the sight or sound of a Russian abroad. Anyway I agreed to be
>more openminded about Russians and she to become less hostile to
>non-Russians.
After my trip to Russia, I can agree with your sentiment about them
being appalling. For every good Russian, we must have met 3 bad ones.
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