Thanks, but I already did this mistake all by myself. I believe I got over it. A great help in the matter was our friends – a Romanian/Polish couple with whom we can and do talk about politics and history – in general and between our countries.
But I can relate to feeling slightly paranoid about being Russian in North America. It is not so much particular people who ask silly questions (how many times one can listen to “How cold is in Russia?” and “How’s your communism?” – but at least I am not being asked about our vampires as the aforementioned Romanian guy): I can answer silly questions and explain climate conditions and the political situation in Russia. It was more of a general undercurrents that were felt – that’s why I sometimes wasn’t sure if it was really here or it was just me being paranoid – opinions that Russia is a weird place, populated by weird people, and rarely a good thing can be expected from there. Beside Tolstoy, Dostoevskiy, caviar, and vodka.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zaluzianskya and ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
skylark_photos
no subject
Date: 2004-07-21 03:29 pm (UTC)But I can relate to feeling slightly paranoid about being Russian in North America. It is not so much particular people who ask silly questions (how many times one can listen to “How cold is in Russia?” and “How’s your communism?” – but at least I am not being asked about our vampires as the aforementioned Romanian guy): I can answer silly questions and explain climate conditions and the political situation in Russia. It was more of a general undercurrents that were felt – that’s why I sometimes wasn’t sure if it was really here or it was just me being paranoid – opinions that Russia is a weird place, populated by weird people, and rarely a good thing can be expected from there. Beside Tolstoy, Dostoevskiy, caviar, and vodka.