And as I have argued in numerous posts, these “based� sentiments in Russia are almost certainly stronger amongst youth than amongst the elderly (nationalist share of the vote rises, communist share of the vote falls with decreasing age). This would also reflect Polish Perspective’s observation on trends in Poland.

There is a similar trend in France too, where younger voters are more likely to support “nationalist” politics than older voters. This is even though the younger cohorts of France are less ethnically French. I wonder how the politics of ethnic French and non ethnic French youth in France differ?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/le-pen-national-front-macron-france-election/525759/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nearly-half-young-french-voters-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-french-election-2017-a7723291.html
https://www.ft.com/content/5119f9ac-08cb-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b
http://www.businessinsider.com/front-national-is-no-longer-taboo-for-french-youth-2017-3?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/france-far-right-youth-voters_us_58f4dea7e4b0bb9638e5394e?guccounter=1

If/when competitive politics return to Russia, the result will be an Orban, a Zeman, a Netanyahu, a Salvini, not some Sorosite cuck that neoliberalism.txt hopes for.

As a Russian, I’m not so sure. Russia’s key distinction is its size, meaning it would take a lot of money to run a national campaign and access to television will be crucial.

Just like in the US, politicians with the best ability to fundraise will dominate competitive politics. These politicians will serve the needs of Jewish oligarchs, and at the same time Jew-controlled television will work to supress any populist voices, just like they do in the US, just like did in Russia during 1990s.

Personally, I think Russia can exist as an Autocracy or a (Jewish) Oligarchy, but Orban style populism isn’t viable here, due to the country’s diversity and size.

Why is Denmark so pozzed when their politics and migrant policies seem to be fairly based?

Will political violence against liberal personalities and their supporters be useful in stopping liberalism?

Yes, this is odd. Even the Social Democrats in Denmark are now onboard with immigration restriction. Worth noting that Danes are renowned for their guile, trickery, and deceit.

Sweden doesn’t have based migration politics…yet.

Sweden Yes! aside, the Swedish result is odd in light of the fact that the Sweden Democrats are now the most popular party in the country are for the first time out-polling the Social Democrats…and I don’t think any party has out-polled the Social Democrats in the past century (the three center-right governments which have held power since the SocDem monopoly began in the ’30s have all been coalitions).

This might be a case of Scandinavians faithfully repeating the sacraments of bioleninism, but then adopting “common sense” to politics. Of course we love diversity! But we simply can’t have returning ISIS fighters importing child brides from Pakistan!

On the flip side Russians are based but they keep approving of and voting for the mass-immigrationist Putin regime.

Denmark was not included in this survey. The DE means Germany.

http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/news/essnews0038.html

The German result in that poll is of course extremely depressing, but I do have to wonder how accurate it is. There was a poll in 2016 in which 53% of surveyed Germans were in favour of stopping ALL Islamic immigration:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/most-europeans-want-muslim-ban-immigration-control-middle-east-countries-syria-iran-iraq-poll-a7567301.html

There has also been a poll in Germany about the question “Does Islam belong to Germany?”, with a majority of somewhat over 60% saying “No, it doesn’t” (although unfortunately the youngest age cohorts are tending more towards “Yes”):
https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/gehoert-der-islam-zu-deutschland-umfrage-insa

Still, the differences to Eastern Europe and Italy are certainly real, for whatever reason there’s a very large and influential segment of society that holds strongly multiculturalist views.

Navalny, was also the first liberal to go from their usual margin of error support levels to something noticeable (27% in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections)

“something noticeable”…..like his 2% in Kostroma election in 2015.

Liberast idiot voters in Moscow are in the 10-12% region, consistently throughout the Putin leadership ( I don’t use false insulting terms like “regime”). There was a 34% turnout for the Moscow Mayor election and it must be assumed that , literally, 100% turnout for Navalny hamsters in this election. If we assume a normal election would get 60% turnout, and a 100% turnout of Navalny supporters as here…….then the Navalny result is about 15%, for a city that has immeasurably improved in the 5 years afterwards.

I know German boomer conservatives who would support all banning all Islamic immigration but are mostly fine with “based” black African Christians. This might explain the seemingly contradictory poll results

Anyone running ‘against the system‘, anywhere in the world with reasonably open elections will get 20-25%. You can check elections that run ‘outsiders’ of different types, they always score in 20% range, sometimes cumulatively. That’s the built-in rebel or malcontent support.

The issue in many Western elections is that most outsiders are managed out of the system. There is always some method that prevents them from running: internal party controls, qualifications to run, money and media, and last-minute demonisation. Access to ballot is always regulated (it has to be), and obviously the system group tries to make sure those who are listed are manageable and managed.

Navalny helped himself with his nationalist rhetoric, but protest candidates have a built-in support and 27% is only slightly better than one would expect when you add up the hard-core, the malcontents, and the unhappy.

Still, the differences to Eastern Europe and Italy are certainly real, for whatever reason

Public opinion reflected by various polls is not a function of actual reality on the ground. Different realities may lead the same outcome in public opinion and similar realities may lead to different outcomes. The ‘whatever reason’ can be very easily manufactured.

Liberast idiot voters in Moscow are in the 10-12% region, consistently throughout the Putin leadership ( I don’t use false insulting terms like “regime�)

It’s a highly personalistic system of government, to the point that insiders within the Putin regime claim, that there can be no Russia without Putin, hence the “regime”.

Well, Russia is not unique in this: Hungary and Czech Republic are even ahead of Russia in rejecting immigration, while Poland, Israel, Italy, and quite a few others are not far behind.
Unlike suicidal Sweden and Germany, Russians don’t want to feed parasites. That might be the legacy of Soviet Union failed “internationalist� policies. Russians are OK with migrants who work and earn their keep, but not with the parasites seeking payments for nothing, like the scum flocking to Germany or Sweden. Overall, this is a good sign: Russians won’t let their country be destroyed by migrants from various “whateverthefuckistans�.

Not true. If you look around that is about how any collection of humans works. This is why average IQ is better predictor of success than anything else.

It should be noted that the largest group of immigrants in Russia are Ukrainians. For this it would be better to clarify (in the survey) what kind of immigration is in question.

Foreign citizens residing in the territory of the Russian Federation, 2014-2017. Blue – Ukraine, Red – Uzbekistan, Green – Tajikistan

Where are you from, DreadIlk? As a Western man you may be having difficulty picturing what traditional autocracies are like, since you never lived in one.

I assure you that Russia not like USA. There is certainly no “Trump regime” in America. I would go so far as to say that the American system is anti-Trump.

It should be noted that the largest group of immigrants in Russia are Ukrainians. For this it would be better to clarify (in the survey) what kind of immigration is in question.

The survey does that. It asks about immigrants “of different race/ethnic group from the majority”. Ukrainian people is really a variation of Russians.

What is happening to the Germans? There were almost 394k self-identifying as such in 2010 census and there seems to be a good bit over 300k in early 2014 in that graph. The rate of decline doubled?

There can and will be Russia without Putin. Contrary to the claims of current propaganda in the US and EU, the West will rue the day when Putin is gone: he is the most pro-Western leader Russia would tolerate under current circumstances.

Ukrainian people is really a variation of Russians.

Well no, not really. A Ukrainian would have exhibited greater writing skills and have written:

The Ukrainian people are not really a variation of the Russian nation. 🙂

You guys (some Russians – nationalists?) must really have a low self esteem, if you continuously need to incorporate the Ukrainians into your own national mythology! 🙂

Can’t you stand on your own two feet and go forward?

It’s possible, but not a foregone conclusion. After Putin is gone, the country could conceivably revert to an oligarchic system of government it had in the 1990s. The West will certainly like that.

Hate to disappoint, but the prevalent feeling in Russia is that they don’t want Ukrainian “brothers� (basically, because with brothers like that, who needs enemies). Even though in reality Ukrainians and Belorussians are in many ways Russians, prevailing current attitude in Russia is that the people consider Ukrainians as something different, something that they despise.

The opposing view comes mostly from Ukrainians. Rostislav Ischenko, who worked for the Ukrainian government and ran away to Russia after the coup in 2014, said that anyone who is good for anything and has a chance to compete considers himself Russian and competes in Russia. The ones good for nothing count themselves as Ukrainians and are proud to be the biggest frog in a pathetically small puddle. He should know, he was there 1991-2014.

Highly unlikely. Too many people still remember the horrors of the “liberal� 1990s.

Can you clarify what do you mean?

Well no, not really.

Sure, but the discussion here is about Ukrainian immigrants to Russia. Ukrainians are not Russians, but they are very easy to assimilate into Russians. That’s what makes them such convenient migrants for Russia, the fact that that they (or their children) will quickly become ethnic Russians.

Probably a quarter to a third of Russians have close relatives in Ukraine. My wife’s parents do. I don’t live in Russia, but did until 1991. I was born in Ukraine (in Lvov, of all places) and have an aunt and a cousin living in Ukraine (my other cousin and the children of both of these cousins ran away from Ukraine, some to Russia, some to the Netherlands). Some of those Ukrainian relatives went mad, thereby reinforcing the impression of Russians that a Ukrainian is something contemptible and generally retarded (which would explain downward trajectory of that unfortunate entity from 1991 to this day).
However, after a move to Russia most Ukrainians become quite human and easily assimilate. BTW, there are schools teaching in lots of languages in Russia, even Armenian and Georgian, but there isn’t a single Ukrainian school: minority-language schools are created on the request of parents, and most Ukrainians living in Russia prefer to pretend that they have nothing in common with Ukraine.

I have some Vietnamese acquaintances who lived in Russia, as well as South Korean and Chinese aquaintances who studied there or traveled extensively.

Their opinion:

1: Russians are pretty hospitable in general. Just dont be a dick.

2: East Asians are seen as outsiders, but have a bit of a model minority status.

3: The South Korean eventually walked around with a South Korean flag pin, improved many things. He was occassionally mistaken for a Central Asian or Buryat, being seen as South Korean was an improvement.

4: Other acquaintances were quite harmless looking girls. This probably improved their reception.

5: Generally speaking, East Asians have a migrant hierarchy themselfs, and arent particularly shocked to encounter one.

I should have mentioned that this was so even before 2014 coup. The “progress� of Ukraine is best described by the promises of its contemptible “leaders�. The first president, Kravchuk, said in mid-1990s that in five years Ukrainians will live, like in France. The second president, Kuchma, said in early 2000s that in ten years Ukrainians will live, like in Poland. A few years ago Saakashvili (Odessa governor back then, failed Georgian president before that) said that if Ukraine develops successfully, in 20 years Ukrainians will live like under Yanukovych (the last legitimate president, deposed by 2014 coup). Some progress, wouldn’t you say?

Post-Putin government, will be in a similar political territory as the Putin government just with some with some different idiosyncrasies.

And Putin’s agenda itself is not so idiosyncrasies – he is experimenting a lot of the time to try to follow, as much as shape, the national mood.

As for immigration. I think it is simply that from a distance everyone can see how suicidal the situation became in countries like Netherlands or Sweden – so countries in East Europe, or poorer countries in total, had an advantage of some years of being able to watch the countries in Western Europe stupidly flooded with incompatible economic immigrants, and Western Europe has in this topic helped to show the rest of the world everything to avoid in life.

For the government, this situation also was used (not for any special ideological reason) as part of the propaganda against the decaying West – so that the government itself unintentionally helped to reinforce the idea that the Western example is bad in this area, and correctly in this area (although uncorrectly in others).

There are reasonable grounds to hope that most of the Central Asian guest workers will go home permanently once conditions in their countries will improve.

TJ and KG will remain poor.

Naturally, a Korean would be considered way above Central Asians, who mostly hold jobs that do not require any qualification in Russia (like street sweepers). Quite a few Russian guys like Asian girls. Quite a few Russian women like Chinese husbands. There is a lot of inter-marriage in Russia, and a lot less racism than in the US or Europe. That’s probably because of centuries of co-existence with Asians and people of different religions in the Russian Empire.
BTW, how many people in the West know that Russian defense minister Shoigu is from Tuva? His father is Tuvan (FYI, Tuvans are Buddhists) and his mother is Russian.

There is a lot of inter-marriage in Russia, and a lot less racism than in the US or Europe. That’s probably because of centuries of co-existence with Asians and people of different religions in the Russian Empire.

Based Civic Imperialism!

And as I have argued in numerous posts, these “based� sentiments in Russia are almost certainly stronger amongst youth than amongst the elderly (nationalist share of the vote rises, communist share of the vote falls with decreasing age). This would also reflect Polish Perspective’s observation on trends in Poland.

I think old people seem more personally “racist” than young people.

Question in the surveys is about immigration policy, which is a different topic. There would be various correlations, but you will find there exist racist people in underlying views, who support internationalism (even the kind of idiots who established “People’s Friendship University”). At the same time, many people who are not in racist, but would prefer not to have flooded with e.g. random African immigrants.

You might visit Turkey every summer for holidays and be a fan of Turkey, but it does not imply you want your home city to be flooded with Turkish cattle and all their criminal elements (as actually happened in Germany).

This is surely a rising fast demographic in educated Western populations (including many scientists, engineers, managers, etc) at the moment – people who oppose mass immigration, not through uneducated prejudices towards the world, but from a simple rational understanding of the unpleasant consequences of these policies.

BTW, there are schools teaching in lots of languages in Russia, even Armenian and Georgian, but there isn’t a single Ukrainian school: minority-language schools are created on the request of parents

Ukrainian community in Moscow were complaining that the government refused to allow a Ukrainian school in the city.

A few years ago Saakashvili (Odessa governor back then, failed Georgian president before that) said that if Ukraine develops successfully, in 20 years Ukrainians will live like under Yanukovych

Western and Central Ukraine are ahead of where they were in 2013, under Yanukovich. The country as a whole should pull even by the end of the year.

You are just gloating at the expense of the more pro-Russian eastern Ukrainians.

More info:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/ukrotriumph/

Then so-called multiculturalism is Civic Imperialism, too. One of the key differences between Europe and Russia is that Russia is doing, whereas Europe is mostly preaching (largely on the principle “do what the priest says, not what the priest does�).

Even though in reality Ukrainians and Belorussians are in many ways Russians, prevailing current attitude in Russia is that the people consider Ukrainians as something different, something that they despise.

I was in Russia in April, spoke a lot of Ukrainian to my kid on the streets, never experienced any rudeness. Russians are not you.

BTW, how many people in the West know that Russian defense minister Shoigu is from Tuva? His father is Tuvan (FYI, Tuvans are Buddhists) and his mother is Russian.

Shoygu – just a bureaucrat/functionary that kissed the right asses, now owns mansions. Not the samurai warrior he appears from the face.

Ukrainian stats? Sure, sure… If Ukraine is so successful, why about a 100,000 people leave Ukraine every month, so that even some members of the Rada got worried that there would be nobody to pay taxes 10 years from now? Why there were 54 births for 100 deaths in 2018?

Unlike some people, Russians (with the exception of a few retards) never make these things personal. In fact, that’s what they have in common with Americans.

Not a samurai warrior, but a Samurai Lord.
With fitting mansions.

Well, I found reports about that in The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and on the website of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. All referencing Navalny as the source of info. Considering that Navalny is a well-known liar and thief (Gucci handbags of his wife clearly show how “clean� he is), Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty is directly funded by the US government well-known for spreading numerous improbable lies that were later debunked, and British newspapers, including The Telegraph and Daily Mail, also have a stable reputation for lying (Skripal affair is the latest example), could you please indicate a reliable source? I am not saying that it cannot be true, I just want to get it from a source not known for habitual lying.

If Ukraine is so successful, why about a 100,000 people leave Ukraine every month, so that even some members of the Rada got worried that there would be nobody to pay taxes 10 years from now

Because Ukrainians make as much money in Poland as Poles do (that is, several times what they make at home):

https://www.unian.info/society/10142516-ukrainians-in-poland-receive-almost-same-wages-as-poles-study.html

a lot of Ukrainians go to Poland for 6 months and come back. This has basically wiped out Ukraine’s real unemployment rate.

If Ukrainians had the opportunity to work in the West as easily under Yanukovich as they do now there would be no difference in such behavior.

Why there were 54 births for 100 deaths in 2018?

Check the geographic distribution. It is largely Sovoks dying out. Lowest birth rates and highest death rates are in the East. Highest birth rates and lowest death rates are in the West and in Kiev.

Economically and demographically, your gloating comes at the expense of the pro-Russian part of the population.

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BTW, 3.1% GDP growth in first quarter 2018.

Meh, it would not bother me if it was true.
Someone who has spent the last decades in various cabinets of a major country should be able to afford a bunch of nice villas.
His Singaporean counterpart earned S$1.76 million per year.

I am not saying it cannot be true, but are there no other sources of this info except proved liars?

BTW, I once saw a military parade in Singapore, likely involving most of its armed forces. The spectacle was rather pathetic. If someone with an army (Malaysia, which allowed it to break free?) wanted to attack Singapore, they would have little problem conquering it. On the other hand, if no one plans to attack, why does Singapore waste resources on something as useless as its army? I don’t know the answer to this question. I am sure Singaporean government can’t supply it, either.

BTW, I am not trying to belittle Singapore. Its government seems very sensible: they have four official languages, every sign everywhere is in these four languages, so that nobody feels alienated. I think some countries (naming no names) would be wise to learn from them, rather than pushing primeval tribal nationalism and a single official language. Fools never learn, though.

Check the geographic distribution. It is largely Sovoks dying out. Lowest birth rates and highest death rates are in the East. Highest birth rates and lowest death rates are in the West and in Kiev.

Details here:

https://ukrstat.org/en/operativ/operativ2018/ds/pp/pp_e/pp0318_e.html

For every 100 deaths in Luhansk oblast, there are only 36 births.
For every 100 deaths in Donetsk oblast, there are only 37 births.
For every 100 deaths in Kharkiv oblast, there are only 47 births.

For every 100 deaths in Lviv oblast there are 66 births.
For every 100 deaths in Rivne oblast there are 86 births.
For every 100 deaths in Kiev City there are 103 births.

Compared to other countries:

For every 100 deaths in Lithuania in 2017 there were 68 births.
For every 100 deaths in Hungary in 2017 there were 70 births.*
For every 100 deaths in Belarus in 2017 there were 78 births.
For every 100 deaths in Russia in 2017 there were 93 births.

*probably lower for ethnic Hungarians than for gypsies

Israel, Poland, Italy, Estonia, and Austria round off Europe’s based leagues.

Israel’s not European.

Malaysia, which allowed it to break free?

They were expelled for not accepting Malaysia’s “primeval tribal nationalism”.

: Russia, Rivne, and Kiev really do perform relatively well in regards to this.

Also, as a side note, I’m unsure that you should celebrate the demographic decline of eastern Ukraine too much. After all, the less people that eastern Ukraine will have, the easier that it will be for Russia to occupy it if Russia will decide to do so.

Do you honestly think any of this matters? You are probably aware of the “most important graph in the world”, Ukraine is already at deaths door, it has become another puppet to the international jew and thus will be accepting mass third world immigration eventually. I recommend you look at fertility rates of places like Nigeria and Afghanistan to see what the future of Ukraine holds, dumb cucks are not the future of any nation.

: Does this mean that Russia doesn’t want a lot of Chinese immigrants either?

Indeed, I was thinking about the idea of having Russia gradually accept 10 or 20 million Chinese immigrants in order to increase its population a bit (accepting more than that would probably be too much for Russia to swallow). Also, these immigrants could replace the Jews (whose numbers are rapidly declining and have been declining since the 1960s) as Russia’s cognitive elite.

: Poland has a declining population and yet refuses to take in a lot of Third World immigrants. Why exactly would Ukraine be any different?

Poland retained some sovereignty, whereas Ukraine has none.

AP is not a Ukrainian cheerleader, he is West-Ukrainian cheerleader.
Reducing the influence of the East is what he wants.

Poland’s population is stagnating, not declining.
At least officially.

The South Korean eventually walked around with a South Korean flag pin, improved many things

Awesome.

To retain popular support (which Putin appears to like nowadays) Russian government can accept Donbass (Donetsk and Lugansk regions, that did not accept Nazi coup in Kiev in 2014), but nothing else in the rest of Ukraine. To the best of my knowledge, even in Donbass, where Ukrainian Nazis are universally hated, the opinion is split: about half wants to join Russia, whereas the other half wants to remain independent.

It is curious to see how Ukrainian population basically falls into two categories: some expect the West to solve their problems, whereas others believe that Russia should solve them. The fact that those who believe that Ukrainians themselves should solve the problems of Ukraine is so small explains the pathetic failure of that would-be country.

It’s the youngest daughter they focused on.

His kids are 1/4 Tuvan and 3/4 Russian… so I guess it is truly the Russian-samurai race.

When she was 22 years old, in 2013, she created the “race of heroes” project. And now she is boss of “race of heroes” as her main job.

But for a girl to start in 2013 at age 22, (and now she still runs) a nationwide project of this scale as the “race of heroes” – she must be “lucky”.

Anyway she gives talks on how to become an entrepreneur.

Its mostly to stop paramilitary NGOs according to my friend in Singapore. So it is supposed to be capable of stopping,say, ISIS but nothing more than that.

Also, as a side note, I’m unsure that you should celebrate the demographic decline of eastern Ukraine too much.

I don’t think it’s something to celebrate. It would be great if Sovoks stopped being Sovoks and became Ukrainians, or (in the case of Donbas especially) Russians. But choosing to disappear by not reproducing is a lesser evil than imposing themselves upon non-Sovoks.

the less people that eastern Ukraine will have, the easier that it will be for Russia to occupy it if Russia will decide to do so

1. Russia’s population, though stable, is still declining and not expanding.
2. The fewer of them, the less chances they have in elections.
3. Sovoks might be inclined to become 5th columnists. Better a small aging population.

Poland retained some sovereignty, whereas Ukraine has none.

…Which is why Ukraine’s government has blocked corruption-reform efforts demanded by the West.

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according to the South Korean, South Koreans actually have the best standing in Russia (compared to other east asians) because of:

A) Not much of a history of hostility or a feeling of being threatened (China)/inferior in living standard (Japan)
B) Koreans were already a bit of a model minority in Czarist times
C) South Korea is now somewhat hip
D) Visa free travel in both directions. One could argue that South Korea is the most modern country for which Russians do not need a visa.
E) No “little brother” thing like with the Vietnamese.
F) Korea is like, one of the very few/the only countries which border Russia and which never invaded it.

But in general, Russians are easy to get along with. Be respectful, flatter them a bit and dont do stupid shit. Same procedure works nearly everywhere.

S.Korean tourism to Vladivostok is booming, esp. among youngsters. They see VVO as European city closest to Korea. Main attractions include visa-free travel b/w RU&SK, affordable airfares, price-competitive shopping, good food, and encounters w N.Koreans.
https://t.co/lfwLCSSnUB

— Artyom Lukin (@ArtyomLukin) May 9, 2018

Also Korean is an indigenous, if rare to find, nationality in some places of Russia.

But really, Japanese have a higher cultural status (image of the country in people’s minds), as Japanese have in almost every country in the world.

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On the other hand, Russia’s image in Japan – it’s an area for economic improvement. Japanese tourists are flooding London and Paris in large numbers, seen on every street with shopping bags.

Whereas in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg the numbers of Japanese arriving are multiple times lower, despite being cheaper for them, and now with visa-free entry.

Currently, there are not even direct flights between Saint-Petersburg and Tokyo

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Eccentric ideas this week to get more Japanese visiting the far-east.
http://www.zrpress.ru/business/primorje_19.06.2018_89691_v-trende-katastrofy-rasstrely-i-voennye-bitvy.html

On the other hand, Russia’s image in Japan – it’s an area for economic improvement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/world/nemuro-journal-the-russians-have-come-and-they-re-welcome.html
”The reason those other towns are barring Russians from baths and snack bars is because Japanese don’t like being around Russians,” Mr. Suzuki said. ”When we began targeting the Russians, we feared that our customers would feel the same way. But we found that the people of Nemuro don’t harbor any revulsion for Russians. We want to have good relations with them. Who knows, one day it may even help us recover our lands.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/02/21/national/otaru-racism-controversy-lingers-on/#.WyxBNmaZOu4

https://apjjf.org/-Arudou-Debito/1743/article.html
In September 1999, we came on the scene. Several multinational families (German, American, and Chinese, all with Japanese spouses) and I dropped by as customers at the original exclusionary Otaru onsens. The managers only refused entry to the Caucasians in our contingent. Reason given? “Russian sailors disobey our bathing rules. They drive away our Japanese customers.”

“But we are not Russian sailors,” we replied. “Also, we have lived here for more than a decade each. We have Japanese families. We know how to take a bath.”

“Doesn’t matter,” they retorted. “Refusing only Russians would be blatant discrimination. So we refuse all foreigners equally.”

“Including our Chinese friend you just unwittingly let in?” we asked. Quick to admit their “mistake”, they tossed her out too.

Americans didn’t want them either but they still got them.
What could make a difference? The internet maybe. I’ll believe it when I see profitable anti-invasion watchdog groups being formed.

It’s a highly personalistic system of government, to the point that insiders within the Putin regime claim, that there can be no Russia without Putin, hence the “regime�.

WTF does this “personalistic style of government ” BS mean? Sounds like the drivel Bershidsky comes out with

Most of the laws that western ignorant dipshits have ( response to Magnitsky, fag propaganda and so on) have almost had almost no relation to Putin in their formulisation or implementation….except that he has the consitutional authority to reject or accept them

Why have so many critics of Putin come up in high positions like Rogozin, Glazyev, Milov, Pamfilova ….do you actually think Putin is desperate for Chubais to control Rosnano ( and f**k it up?). Why did he even have Kasyanov as PM?

insiders within the Putin regime claim, that there can be no Russia without Putin

Because he is so good at his job…and any idiot knows that the threat of the west against Russian culture, Russian economy, Russian politics…is very much real.

Sure, but everyone’s sailors, probably can make a bad impression – I doubt American sailors are more popular.

Also this article is extremely old and is from the New York Times.

Japanese culture is very popular in Russia, but with a specific people, i.e. polite geeks who want to transform into characters from Nintendo games.

A lot of tourists going to visit or live in Japan nowadays are these people. Japan welcomes eccentrics and will probably think they are cool, and so they’ll contribute to improving relationships when they visit Japan.

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Japanese-Russia relations reached a new level this year, after skaters were being welcomed as honorary almost Japanese

Zagitova at least looks Japanese.

And Medvedeva can dance like them.

you … certainly can’t speak Ukrainian

The fact that you keep posting a Ukrainian-language video and insist it is in Russian suggests that you can speak neither Ukrainian nor Russian. Ukrainian or Russian speakers feel free to confirm.

Japanese culture is very popular in Russia, but with a specific people, i.e. polite geeks who want to transform into characters from Nintendo games.

A lot of tourists going to visit or live in Japan nowadays are these people. [b]Japan welcomes eccentrics and will probably think they are cool,[/b] and so they’ll contribute to improving relationships when they visit Japan.

Ok some of those might frighten even the Japanese..

it wouldn’t be a culturally “Ukrainian� community doing this

I went to the cultural center on Arbat during a meeting and they were complaining about it. This was about 15 years ago. It still wasn’t done.

For a fan of late unlamented Ukraine you are remarkably ill-informed.
Ukrainian Rada adopted a bill on establishing High Anti-Corruption Court
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/politics/10161143-ukraine-s-rada-adopts-bill-on-establishing-high-anti-corruption-court.html

Japanese culture is very popular in Russia, but with a specific people, i.e. polite geeks who want to transform into characters from Nintendo games.

Japanese culture is popular in Russia also among normal people, only other areas of culture. Here is a Park in St. Petersburg:

Japanese culture was popular among normal people even in the USSR. I read Akutagawa ans Natsume Soseki way back then, in excellent Russian translation.

There is a lot of inter-marriage in Russia, and a lot less racism than in the US or Europe.

It seems difficult to compare, given the difference in ethnicity.

I don’t think people in USA or West Europe mind East Asians that much. Vietnamese people in France seem integrated and I think ethnic French have a positive view of them. Similarly longer-established East Asians in the USA have a not so low intermarriage rates with Anglo-Americans.

Probably comparing East Asians with say, Middle Eastern Muslims or Africans or Amerindians would produce the wrong impression regarding inter-marriage or racism.

I’m well aware of that. And it is full of loopholes. West isn’t pleased but can’t do anything about it:

http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/01/18/now-world-bank-slams-poroshenkos-anticorruption-court-bill-800-mn-in-the-air/

Ukraine will happily take IMF money but it is no longer dependent on it, as in 2014. It paid back more than it took in last year:

https://www.uawire.org/over-the-year-ukraine-paid-more-to-imf-than-it-received-from-it

n Russia, the same situation with the Koreans. They are perfectly integrated, and (in the eyes of the population) make up a very different category than the inhabitants of Central Asia. Usually (in Russia) in a group of students in 20-30 people one student has an East Asian appearance, and this student with 95% probability is Korean. Or here are the winners of the competition (among schoolchildren) for knowledge of Russian literature on Sakhalin.

Confucians strong

Well that’s what we call good information.

Sweden must be the most disgraceful (formerly-) white nation on earth. And, sadly, there’s stiff competition for the title. I’ll remember this the next time something awful happens there: they want it.

That is in Kazan though ;:)

Now former Swedish ‘conservative’ PM in 2006:
‘The ur-Swedish is merely barbarism. The rest of our development has come from abroad.’

https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/reinfeldt-det-ursvenska-ar-blott-barbari/

Even though he didn’t intend it, I found the double entendre interesting.

Japanese-Russia relations reached a new level this year

Well, 2018 is supposed to be the Year of Russia in Japan.

Princess Takamado continues her visit to Russia. After watching the Japanese national team play in Saransk, she will travel to Ekaterinburg for Japan-Senegal on Sunday. She is the first member of the Japanese imperial family to visit Russia since 1916. https://t.co/KdYZNXfhgO

— James D.J. Brown (@JamesDJBrown) June 22, 2018

https://static.vl.ru/news/1527897234063_default
https://www.newsvl.ru/vlad/2018/06/02/170793/

Sad and true.

Denmark would be DK.

It was a Communist Party official who recently made news for saying that local women shouldn’t fraternize with foreigners during the World Cup.

Chinese factory workers at the much-derided “sweat shops” for companies like Apple do pretty well, certainly better than the Russian average

Does Russia have live-in positions for factory workers?

Japanese culture is popular in Russia also among normal people, only other areas of culture. Here is a Park in St. Petersburg:

Sure any normal people can a Japanese garden.

But I was talking about these polite geeks in the new generation who became obsessed with Japan anime, and almost believe they are Japanese, and these guys are spreading in every city.

Kind of people even go to events of Hatsune Miku in Tokyo, dressed as Hatsune Miku.

Japanese seem flattered though (she says they take photos).

Japan Civilization is putting more specialists into Culture production for a long-term plan to flip Vladisvostok.

Its always been interesting to me how much art output Japan creates, and it should be noted that its not really designed for export. The -chans board within Japan are extremely active and productive, and doujin(independent comics) are popular enough that people can make a living off writing them. “Web novels” or blogs of fiction/episodic content can be popular enough that it can be adapted into anime for a general audience, and so on. IIRC someone mentioned that the much smaller population of Japan on one of the chan boards created almost as much material as American DeviantArt.

Would be interesting if that was analyzed someday, and filtered for “high quality” art akin to high quality science.

No idea, but they have the lowest minimum wage in Europe (or close to it)

And this is a bad thing, why? Why on Earth should anyone want to have foreign ethnicities constitute their cognitive elite?

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/limits-to-cognitive-elitism/

Especially when the world is probably near the technological verge of allowing countries to create their own cognitive elites at will (via genetic IQ augmentation).

There is no lack of clever people now, – the issue is just also having no lack of idiots who lower the average.

To give one example: Re: Zero is an incredibly popular anime adapted from the web novels of Tappei Nagatsuki, who is in real life, was a butcher working full time(he might be working part time now). So he essentially wrote material worth millions(and attendant soft power, if you care) in his free time after cutting up meat. Despite owning all that IP now, he continues to work as a butcher.

Maybe if he quit, he’d be more productive like GRR Martin.

When the fact that the thieves are refusing to fight corruption is the sign of sovereignty, that tell us all we need to know about the country. I am glad that I don’t have Ukrainian citizenship: I’d be ashamed to acknowledge it otherwise.

Its always been interesting to me how much art output Japan creates, and it should be noted that its not really designed for export.

This about food as well.

Some cultures (Japan, Italy) are obsessed with food, with endless distinctions in taste, and where every different village has a special recipes, and there’s an endless creatively in this area.

I was shocked changing television channels in Japan by how their television was at least half of it about food.

Other cultures like France have very overrated cuisine, with little creativity – but at least it is important for them that food is at a common standard.

And then other cultures almost just do not care about this area by comparison.

Happily?? Tell me the Ukrainian elite isn’t that dumb/corrupt

Its always been interesting to me how much art output Japan creates, and it should be noted that its not really designed for export.

It is interesting, Korean pop culture is much more export-intended than Japanese culture yet Japan and Korea still have relatively similar pop cultural influence on each other and on foreign nations.

Perhaps Chinese pop culture would become more popular abroad if there was a greater push towards making it export-friendly?

Well, my wife is French so I’m going to have to object to the notion that French food is overrated. French food is probably one of the most scientific and well-organized systems of culinary elegance, but that said, many of its ideas have since been adapted into other forms of cultural cooking by now. But consider, for example, the French theory of sauces which is well-organized and modular, as compared to how Italian alfredo sauce was made with just empirical knowledge.

She was not talking about fraternizing, she was talking about not creating children who would be abandoned.

https://govoritmoskva.ru/interviews/2248/

With the exception of far western Ukraine around Lviv, right? My understanding is that many people’s genetics there are substantially Polish, and to a much lesser extent Slovak. Add Hungarians in the oblast Zakarpattiya.

I don’t have a lot of flattering things to say about Chinese artistic scene, beyond hard sci-fi, but I also don’t have a lot of familiarity. I think the censorship has its toll.

Maybe someday.

Japan Civilization is putting more specialists into Culture production for a long-term plan to flip Vladisvostok.

They are not trying hard enough. 😉

With many Japanese fans expected to transit through Vladivostok on the way to World Cup matches, this article explains about the city’s airport and restaurant scene, though, above all, it notes the supposedly “overwhelming� Korean presence in the city. https://t.co/GYZyNPBjfA

— James D.J. Brown (@JamesDJBrown) June 7, 2018

Ok, but my point was that the communist generation (and communist voters of any age) isn’t likely to be less nationalistic/conservative than the youth.

I’m just pointing out what is happening.

So, according to you –

– If Ukraine cracks down on corruption that benefits its local elite, something the West wants – it is a puppet, it is bad

– If Ukraine’s local elite successfully resists these reform efforts demanded by the West – also bad.

– Reform efforts and anti-corruption pressure from within Ukraine are mostly coming from western Ukraine and its nationalists (interestingly, Poroshenko is allied with the eastern Ukrainian Opposition Bloc party to stifle reform efforts*). So if Ukraine reforms because of nationalist pressure – I’ll bet you would think this is bad, also.

So no matter what Ukraine does with reform, it is bad according to you.

*One factor that would motivate Poroshenko to try to retake Donbas would be to add Opposition Party voters to the electorate. This would kill attempts at limiting corruption in the country.

Even pre-19th century, my impression is that Chinese culture was very sub-par compared to Japan

With the exception of far western Ukraine around Lviv, right?

Ukrainians are fairly uniform genetically. Ethnics Ukrainians even from Russian territory (Belgorod) are more similar to ones from Lviv than they are to their Russian neighbors:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452715040106

Ukrainians as a whole are genetically closest to Belarussians, followed by Slovaks, followed by Russians.

They aren’t dumb at all, but they are corrupt. The best hope is that they figure out what Russia’s no-less corrupt elite did and opt to at least reform and fix the system enough so that common people live better lives and don’t try to overthrow them.

All almost major Japanese ideas had Chinese origins, however, Chinese artistic output plummeted at some point and was actively attacked for various ideas by the early 1900s(consider the fate of the shenmo stories) and so on.

No there is no Trump regime. For now. But there is a neocon regime. And each neocon before Trump put his flavor on it. Under each president the machinery of state changed to look like the president. I only remember the last two before Trump. They were weak and let cancer of incompetence and corruption to spread through out the system. On top of it they abused their power.

So yes the regimes in US are highly personal and you can see it in how the state functions under each president.

Yes Greece had very different socioeconomic structures, but they also had much better living standards on avg than Ukraine at the time of their crisis, and we can see how chicanery with the IMF and EU destroyed the mainstream parties’ credibility with the populace.

China has vibrant classical culture, which is the basis of Korean and Japanese culture. However, after the fall of the Song dynasty to Mongols in the 13th century, China in general and its culture in particular was in decline. Economically it turned the tide in the last few decades (thanks to boundless greed of Western corporations), but it still does not generate much culture, serious or popular. That might be the reason Russian songs are so popular in China ever since 1960s. They translated these songs, and it is very funny for anyone familiar with them to hear Chinese singing Russian songs in Chinese (they do sing well – Chinese language is tonal, so everyone has a good ear for music).

Ukrainian science is amazing. If you want to prove that 2�2=5.5, ask a Ukrainian scientist, preferably a member of their Academy of Sciences (yes, they do have that Academy, even though they have no science to speak of).

Chinese language is tonal, so everyone has a good ear for music

Then how do you explain Peking opera?

I have to confess that I’ve never heard Peking opera, even though I was about a week in Beijing. I know that pretty much all Chinese and Vietnamese (two nations that have tonal languages) sing very well, which is not true for any other nation. I am a good example of that: I like good (complex, like classical) music, but I cannot sing at all, so I consider my refraining from singing as a service to the society.

That is in Kazan though ;:)

All-Russian literature Olympiad in Kazan. Medalists from Sakhalin Alexander Kim and Maria Kim http://ujnosahalinsk.bezformata.ru/listnews/prizerov-finala-vserossijskoj-olimpiadi/66152326/

I do not think you know much about food and certainly you do not understand it.

I went to the cultural center on Arbat during a meeting and they were complaining about it. This was about 15 years ago. It still wasn’t done.

This is almost as bad a dumb , retarded lie as the one about why Yuschenko’s “Ukrainian” is in fact Russian

Ukrainian science is amazing. If you want to prove that 2×2=5.5, ask a Ukrainian scientist, preferably a member of their Academy of Sciences

All the serious and talented Ukrainian scientists left for Russia years ago

This is almost as bad a dumb , retarded lie as the one about why Yuschenko’s “Ukrainian� is in fact Russian

We’ve been through this before, and Yushchenko was speaking in Ukrainian (in a 3 minute clip he included one discernible Russian word). It’s obvious that you’re fixated on your own past bloopers. Get a life, or better yet, get a brain! ðŸ™�

Many left for Russia, but many moved to the US, some even to Europe. We have a few faculty members from Ukraine here, and we are consistently in the top 15 US Universities. The main fact is correct, though: people with a brain left (which partially explains current political landscape in Ukraine, where the speaker of the Rada, Andriy Parubiy, is a certified retard).

My own hypothesis is that, for various reasons cultural closeness being one of them, Ukrainian brain drain towards Russia was more significant then Ukrainian brain drain towards the west. What I mean is that Ukrainians who move to Russia become Russians (somewhat) which is less the case for Ukrainians moving to the west. Prio to Maidan, migration towards Russia was also much simpler.

I think that the negative effect of the brain drain struck the Russophone parts stronger then the pro western ones. Ukrainians who liked Russia could easily move there, significantly improving their security and their earnings in the process, and pretty much stay there. Ukrainians who strongly disliked Russia would not migrate there, had frequently less opportunities to migrate west, and thus stayed and “stewed” in their own anger.

Recently had an expat event with an Ukrainian lady (not fully Maidan but pretty certain that Ukraine is not Russia) and some Thais. The Thai got a bit drunk and was asking about how that whole thing actually happened. I kind of tried to make an equivalence between the Thai-Viet and the Russo-Polish rivalry, with Ukraine/Cambodia in the middle and getting dunked on by everyone. The Ukrainian lady made an impassioned plea to Ukrainian rebelliousness, aversion to authority and spontanity. The Thai was like “ah, so you basically Ukrainians are like Russians but less organized and thus less good at violence?” . I chuckled a bit too loudly and thus didnt get laid.

Fairly famous, but worth sharing. She put in quite a bit of effort to capture the “feel” of the main character as well and was trying to replicate the first episode.

IIRC it was an exhibition match, so there was nothing to win or lose, so might as well mess around and have fun.

The Ukrainian lady made an impassioned plea to Ukrainian rebelliousness, aversion to authority and spontanity. The Thai was like “ah, so you basically Ukrainians are like Russians but less organized and thus less good at violence?� .

Epic self-pwn.

It seems like all of your posts start with a colon. Is that something specific to your mobile that you’re writing in?

Also, these immigrants could replace the Jews (whose numbers are rapidly declining and have been declining since the 1960s) as Russia’s cognitive elite.

I think China needs a Russian artistic elite more than Russia needs a foreign cognitive elite.

China mostly needs Russian advanced weapons, as their limited creativity gets in the way of producing their own. They copy-catted a lot of Soviet and Russian military hardware, but ended up making inferior copies. That’s why China bought many C-400 systems from Russia: they need something that actually works right now. In fact, Chinese authorities got wise to it: China is actively wooing scientists (Chinese and non-Chinese) with the record of generating real science that reflects the reality, rather than just pleases the boss. In that they are in a better position than Russia: China has a lot of money to invest. What Russia needs from China is mostly money, and that’s what it is getting: Chinese financing grabbed the market share that was previously occupied by Europeans, who shot themselves in the foot by sanctions, and are now complaining that it hurts.

Japan Civilization is putting more specialists into Culture production for a long-term plan to flip Vladisvostok.

Such a area culture as anime/manga represents a Japanese kowtow before Europeans. Japanese art where the characters are exclusively anthropological europids (even if they are Japanese in the story) – this is a very strange psychological anomaly.

I’m of the belief that they don’t really see the characters as “European” in large part because Golden Time’s writer, for example, wrote the heroine basically as a self-insert, but her self-insert would come off as much less Japanese by appearance than herself. As for why the dissonance, I can’t quite say why. Occasionally they seem to acknowledge it.

That said, I remember an old and funny conspiracy theory(in the 1980s, when such conspiracy about Nippon Rising was rife) that they portrayed anime with European characters as a future ambition for a world dominated by Japan, with Japanese customs being practiced by non-Japanese people.

I should add:

Partly, I think its that they see themselves as very, very pale. Europeans are portrayed even paler when they do appear. From Samurai Champloo, consider the contrast between the main characters and the Very Confused Dutchman:

I have argued that Galicians are racially distinct from Eastern Slavs. AP obviously disagrees. 🙂

Don’t mix sex with politics, that’s all. Especially when the target is from a nation or a group with severe inferiority complex.

Galicians are half-Polish (although the nationalistic ones would vehemently deny it, enlisting some “science� produced by quacks; e.g., see AP post #111 above). Poles are supposed to be Western Slavs, like Czechs. Most Ukrainians have a lot of Turkish (possibly Khazar) blood: decidedly non-Slavic dark eyes and black hair is common, like among Bulgarians, for the same reason. People lie, but genes do not.

Partly, I think its that they see themselves as very, very pale.

The Japanese may have pale skin, but when the hero (Japanese schoolboy) is fiery red – haired and his girlfriend – blonde, its impossible to make a mistake-anthropologically they are Europeans. In addition, the Japanese artists (when they want) draw a definite Mongoloids

Are you sure? Poles were like a ruling caste in Galicia, even during Austrian rule, doubt they’d intermix much with the lowly Ruthenes

Ukrainian science is amazing

Study is basically a Russian study (look at the authors).

Author affiliations are:

1.Karazin Kharkov National University Kharkov Ukraine
2.Research Center for Medical Genetics Moscow Russia
3.Estonian Biocenter Tartu Estonia
4.Vavilov Institute of General Genetics MoscowRussia
5.Belgorod State University Belgorod Russia

For someone making such a dumb mistake you probably shouldn’t denigrate any national sciences.

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So, study confirms that Ukrainians even in Belgorod Russia are genetically closer to Ukrainians in Lviv than they are to next-door Russians.

The Ukrainian lady made an impassioned plea to Ukrainian rebelliousness, aversion to authority and spontanity. The Thai was like “ah, so you basically Ukrainians are like Russians but less organized and thus less good at violence?�

The Ukrainian lady had a point. While Ukrainian people is a variation of Russians, it is a “Southern” variation of Russians. Like all Southerners, Ukrainians are prone to strong emotions and are somewhat chaotic.

What makes it so hard to believe? In an age without contraception some Polish noble could impregnate a lot a peasant Galician girls.

Also, the Jews served as tax collectors in the Polish Ukraine – probably got their share of sexy time as well.

Galicians are half-Polish (although the nationalistic ones would vehemently deny it, enlisting some “science� produced by quacks; e.g., see AP post #111 above).

One of the “quacks” in the study I posted is Balanovsky, one of the most significant Russian genenticists.

Here is the link to the study:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452715040106

Authors:

O. M. Utevska rA. S. Pshenichnov Kh. D. Dibirova S. Rootsi A. T. Agdzhoyan M. I. ChurnosovE. V. Balanovska L. A. Atramentova O. P. Balanovsky

Author affiliations:

1.Karazin Kharkov National University Kharkov Ukraine
2.Research Center for Medical Genetics Moscow Russia
3.Estonian Biocenter Tartu Estonia
4.Vavilov Institute of General Genetics Moscow Russia
5.Belgorod State University Belgorod Russia

Conclusion:

In general, the Ukrainian and Russian populations of Slobozhanshchina are very close genetically; their set and frequency range of Y-chromosome haplogroups are typical for Eastern Europe. However, a detailed analysis of highly informative Y-chromosome markers showed that both nations retain the ethnic specificity of their gene pools after 3.5 centuries of coexistence in the same historical territory: the Ukrainian populations are similar to the rest of Ukraine, and Russian populations gravitate towards the south of European Russia.

Most Ukrainians have a lot of Turkish (possibly Khazar) blood

Genetics contradicts this.* Ukrainians do have some Balkan descent, which likely explains their darker features, and less Finnic descent than do Russians.

People lie, but genes do not.

Indeed. You lie, genes do not.

*There are some local exceptions – near Kharkiv there was some Turkic settlement and local Ukrainians from there show some Turkic descent

He is full of nonsense. Just look at his stupid comments about the study I posted. I wouldn’t take him seriously.

Central Ukrainians and Left Bank Ukrainians actually have more Polish descent than do Galicians. Why? The Polish community there was only about 10% of the population and nearly all were assimilated by the local Ukrainians. The Mazovian peasants who settled there mingled with local Ukrainian peasants, and the petty nobles mixed with local Ukrainian petty nobles or cosack officer families. Gogol, for example, had a Polish grandparent. In the genetic studies Ukrainians from central Ukraine were closer to Poles than Galicians were.

In Galicia the Polish community (about 23% of Galicia’s population) was never absorbed by the Ukrainians and remained intact until it was killed and deported in the 20th century. There were rare cases of intermarriage but not a population-wide absorbtion.

In an age without contraception some Polish noble could impregnate a lot a peasant Galician girls.

A lot of the “Polish” nobles in Galicia were Polonized Rus nobles so it wouldn’t be evident in genetic studies.

Also, the Jews served as tax collectors in the Polish Ukraine – probably got their share of sexy time as well.

Almost no Jewish descent shows up in genetic studies of Ukrainians. However a lot of Jews from this region have paternal Slavic ancestry; the serf and Cossack uprisings evidently involved a significant number of rapes.

Also it is boring for a comic book artist to paint Japanese externally racial characters – every character would look the same as each other. You can only use clothes then to distinguish between different characters.

They already had this problem in the film “Akira” (1988). In “Akira” – they paint the characters as realistic Japanese, and I was getting confused between them because all the characters look like the same guy.

It is ironic that the best comics are made by the world’s most ethnically homogeneous large-population country (Japan). But it is then quite predictable that comics are multinational in a country where the population naturally look almost the same as each other, and the artists will become rapidly bored, and their comics quite confusing, if they painted them as realistic Japanese.

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As for a intrinsic multinational aspect of comics (as a way to reduce the boredom of the artists’ painting every character the same).
In the (American) television show “Futurama”

Same face can be averted by enough artistic effort.

Man, do you have any idea what science is and how it operates? A person “Balanovsky OP� has 11 entries in PubMed. Most of my post-docs have more. If that personage is “leading� in anything, my condolences to whoever or whatever he is leading. This is a typical record of a quack, not particularly smart quack at that. Than his conclusions are not surprising. I know people doing total BS science in former USSR who have stronger record in PubMed.

To some extent, the hair colors are supposed to be stylized to have additional, contextual meanings.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Japanese-characters-have-blue-eyes-and-blond-hair-in-anime/answer/Martin-Schneider-2

Yes, my impression is that the Austrian authorities successfully defused any kind of Polish insurgency comparable to what was happening in Prussian and Russian ruled areas, by basically recognizing the nobility’s privileges and ending Germanization. So Poles would have been 1.5 class citizens in the dual monarchy, but Ruthenes would’ve been 3rd class. Ruthenes looked east to help, some to Russia, but most to the emerging Ukrainian nationalist intellectual current.Anyway it really is amazing how Franz-Joseph’s government wsa able to hold A-H together for as long as it did.

Well, it was a 2016 poll. A lot has happened since 2016.

https://best-sci-fi-books.com/13-best-chinese-science-fiction-books/ 24.12.2016

“Almost no Jewish descent shows up in genetic studies of Ukrainians. However a lot of Jews from this region have paternal Slavic ancestry; the serf and Cossack uprisings evidently involved a significant number of rapes.”
Do you have a source for your claim?

Just dig your hole deeper 🙂

A person “Balanovsky OP� has 11 entries in PubMed. Most of my post-docs have more.

Balanovsky is at Vavilov Institute of General Genetics.

http://en.vigg.ru/

The Vavilov Institute of General Genetics (VIGG) is the oldest institute of Genetics in the Russian Academy of Sciences

Balanovsky heads the department of Genogeography at VIGG:

http://en.vigg.ru/institute/subdivisions/independent-divisions/genogeography/

Nice to know that Anon in TN considers him to be a “quack.”

His claims about Balanovsky tells us more about Anon in TN than about Balanovky.

BTW, the article I linked to was from a normal, peer-reviewed scientific journal.

See, you mostly write and believe complete nonsense about Ukraine. So when you happen to encounter reality, it seems like quackery to you.

These are haplogroups among European peoples:

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml

Ukrainians have basically no Jewish descent. They do have significantly more Balkan descent than do Russians or Poles. This probably is what makes them darker, and may explain their average IQ being a little lower than that of other Slavs, though not as low as in the Balkans (Balkan peoples have the lowest average intelligence in Europe, similar to that of Mexicans).

Typical Slavic haplogroup is R1A. About 5% to 8% of the Ashkenazi (male) gene pool comes from non-Jewish carriers of this haplogroup.

Anecdotal, but I’m pretty sure the Klitschko brothers, Petro Poroshenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko all have some Jewish blood. Ofc this doesn’t matter unless you’re an anti-semite of the most autistic variety.

Your picture is also the explanation of how Japanese fashion is unusually weird (cosplay is weird in itself, but in Japan a lot of people do it as their normal clothes).

In country where everyone looks like they come from the same family and has variations on the same face, then Japanese fashion is understandable way to distinguish themselves like you can in this drawing board.

It is also specifically designed for racially Japanese girls who have similar faces.

When Russian girls are trying to cosplay Japanese cartoons – aside from weirdness, most of them are looking like transsexuals.

These are probably not even bad looking girls outside costume.

For comparison, on the racial Japanese girls, the costumes is actually designed for them

Anecdotal, but I’m pretty sure the Klitschko brothers, Petro Poroshenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko all have some Jewish blood.

Tymoshenko, yes. IIRC she is 1/4 Jewish.

Poroshenko, no. There was fake news that his father was a Jew who converted and changed his name but this is false. His family tree, at least back to the early 1800s, has no Jewish people in it.

I don’t know anything about Klitschko brothers’ background.

Are Greeks still a distinct minority in Ukraine? The seem to have been the “right kind of immigrants” in the Russian imperial view.

Yes, my impression is that the Austrian authorities successfully defused any kind of Polish insurgency comparable to what was happening in Prussian and Russian ruled areas, by basically recognizing the nobility’s privileges and ending Germanization.

They curtailed Polish noble privileges significantly. They allowed serfs to use neutral Austrian courts rather than ones run by the Polish nobles who owned them, which cut down on abuses significantly.
They then abolished serfdom in 1848. So the serfs were very grateful to the Austrians for that.

The Austrians treated the Poles much better than the Russians and the Prussians did, so Poles generally kept quiet.

So Poles would have been 1.5 class citizens in the dual monarchy, but Ruthenes would’ve been 3rd class.

This is generally correct, but the reality was more nuanced. It was a conservative regime that favored class and naturally this placed Poles collectively at an advantage. But there were, actually, some Ruthenian/Ukrainian nobles in Galicia and they prospered. One of my relatives, Ludwig-Alexander Sembratowitsch, had attained the rank of Field Marshal Lieutenant (his brother and uncle were heads of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) and was in the Austrian House of Lords. Not my surname, otherwise I wouldn’t have mentioned it here.

Austrians also elevated and created an educated class of Ukrainians centered on priests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ukrainian_clergy

So they played a positive role for Ukrainians and earned a lot of gratitude from them.

Ruthenes looked east to help, some to Russia, but most to the emerging Ukrainian nationalist intellectual current.

Correct.

Anyway it really is amazing how Franz-Joseph’s government wsa able to hold A-H together for as long as it did.

It was the best situation for a bunch of small nations stuck between Germany and Russia.

I’ve never met one, but they do exist, mostly in southern Donbas like Mariupol. There’s a wiki article about them. Apparently they were Crimean Greeks who were forcibly resettled to southern Donbas by Catherine the Great. They were joined by refugees from the Ottoman Empire over the years.

In some anime, they are intentionally portraying Europe. E.g. “Howl’s Moving Castle”.

Whereas “Spirited Away”, is portraying Japanese characters.

There is a different in drawing from the same studio (Studio Ghibli) but not so much noticeable.

In “Spirited Away”. (Japanese character)

In “Howl’s Moving Castle” (European characters – looking like a Western European country, like the Netherlands)

The city in Kiki’s Delivery Service is based on Stockholm (I am such a hipster that my kids watched Miyazaki and classic Soviet cartoons rather than Disney)

Back to topic, Russia has a long history of selecting for the “right” immigrants. This may have been the first modern immigration policy
http://m.dw.com/en/catherine-the-great-and-the-russian-germans/a-16965100

This is surely a rising fast demographic in educated Western populations (including many scientists, engineers, managers, etc) at the moment – people who oppose mass immigration, not through uneducated prejudices towards the world, but from a simple rational understanding of the unpleasant consequences of these policies.

Count me as a member of this group, and far beyond mere opposition to immigration.

He wasn’t criticizing imperialism.

He was insulting Russians for being insufficiently racist and thus stooping to miscegenation, and not of the respectable #BleachRight variety.

If your claims are correct that’s a deficiency of the Russian national character and nothing to be proud of at all.

Not that the West has a leg to stand on these days on this front.

The Ukraine will be much poorer than almost every other white country, including even Balkanoid swine, for a very long time. It’s unlikely to suffer much immigration any time soon.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if the main source of immigrants now is white men from the West looking for beautiful and (somewhat) more traditional lovers.

In terms of attitudes held by the population, sure.

But even they are waking up. The local nationalist party is now the most popular one in the country.

A fair amount of Sweden Yes! nonsense is also bizarrely driven by petty nationalism. Specifically a narcissism of small differences with respect to Denmark, Sweden’s oldest rival. Unlike those deceitful racist Danes, Swedes are virtuous!

You can see a similar things in play in Scotland (vs. England) and Canada (vs. USA).

I found this open paper, claiming Japan may not be as completely homogeneous as we perceive, in some ways.

Japanese north–south gradient in IQ predicts differences in stature, skin color, income, and homicide rate

Regional differences in IQ are estimated for 47 prefectures of Japan. IQ scores obtained from official achievement tests show a gradient from north to south. Latitudes correlate with height, IQ, and skin color at r = 0.70, 0.44, 0.47, respectively. IQ also correlates with height (0.52), skin color (0.42), income (0.51) after correction, less homicide rate (− 0.60), and less divorce (− 0.69) but not with fertility infant mortality. The lower IQ in southern Japanese islands could be attributable to warmer climates with less cognitive demand for more than fifteen hundred years.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000949

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The paper claims Akita region of Northern Honshu island records highest average IQ test scores, while Okinawa Islands in the oceans furthest South of Japan, records the lowest in these test scores.

However, this tendency was not observed and instead there exists a simple intelligence gradient from south to north. This may be due to an almost perfect admixture within the last 1500 year (about more than 60 generations) as far as genes for taller stature and higher intelligence are concerned, as well as the selective pressures of the last 1500 years of civilization, which have been strong enough to reshape the original east–west IQ gradient into the current north–south cline. This conclusion would be in line with the Hawks, Wang, Cochran, Harpending, and Moyzis (2007)idea of ever-accelerating human evolution. They insist that more and more beneficial mutations swept populations, after the advent of agricultural civilizations with metallurgy, letters and complex hierarchical organizations. The Japanese north–south gradient in height and intelligence can be evidence that modern humans have evolved to higher intelligence within the last two millennia.

Paywall. Worth noting Reinfeldt is an octoroon.

Most of Sweden’s cultural and political development came from abroad from circa 1000 – 1500 AD or so, and foreigners continued to be important in the development of the nation’s economy for another two centuries. Prior to that Sweden was part of an emergent Viking civilization, but like our cousins the Danes and the Norwegians we threw in our lot with the West.

And yes, Swedes were largely barbarians before Christianization. Nothing to be ashamed of. Tacitus had mostly positive things to say about the ancient Germans.

Of course to ignore the past five centuries of indigenous Swedish development, including some very impressive feats in many fields (war, politics, business, science, engineering, etc.) is of course disgraceful.

And the Swedish barbarians managed to found Russia.

I think part of it has to due with the ideal beauty self-conception of Japanese people.

While there are many Japanese people that look different to each other, the ones who fit the ideal beauty standard tend to look more similar phenotypically to anime style characters.

If one looks at K-pop singers (who tend to portray the ideal Korean beauty standard) I think their looks are also not that distant from anime characters.

So artists who want to draw beautifully will also draw beautiful people.

Which raises the question of how much Japanese beauty standards has been influenced by European looks.

Although probably there are other reasons as well (e.g. Variety of hair colours – too boring with all black haired people?)

The paper claims Akita region of Northern Honshu island records highest average IQ test scores, while Okinawa Islands in the oceans furthest South of Japan, records the lowest in these test scores.

With the average IQ score of 108 – maybe Karlin needs to lead a scientific team sent here to measure their skulls.

According to youtube, railway in the region is called the “Akita beautiful women” railway.

Was going to use the “agree” button, but for some baffling reason the use of these buttons is limited to once per hour.

And yes, the French sauces are the ultimate argument for French cookery. Compare to any other national cuisine. It’s not even close.

And that’s really just the beginning.

Italian cuisine, while itself worth of praise, is basically peasant food. Which of course is ironic given the Florentine origins of haute cuisine.

Americans deserve credit for perfecting the art of steak, incidentally. I was shocked how inferior steak was in French cookery compared to what’s on offer at American steakhouses.

while Okinawa Islands in the oceans furthest South of Japan, records the lowest in these test scores.

Okinawa isn’t “real” Japan as far as I know, wasn’t it only annexed in the 19th century? I think the native islanders there are still seen as ethnically somewhat distinct from mainland Japanese.

Of course to ignore the past five centuries of indigenous Swedish development, including some very impressive feats in many fields (war, politics, business, science, engineering, etc.) is of course disgraceful.

Agreed. Reinfeldt was just being political. I just found it interesting that his statement implied that Sweden’s current state of affairs was not a natural outcome.

With Germany it is easy to dismiss it as the result of 4-Ds deconstruction and indoctrination but with Sweden it is harder to explain the cause. Even after having lived there for many years I still can’t figure it out.

I understand that defending a totally false position is hard, but even lies require some order and logic. You were repeatedly frothing at the mouth claiming that genetically Ukrainians are very different from Russians, and then you say this:

A lot of the “Polish� nobles in Galicia were Polonized Rus nobles so it wouldn’t be evident in genetic studies.

Implying exactly the opposite: that Russian admixture wouldn’t be revealed in the genetic studies.
As they say in modern Russia, you should either take off your necktie, or put on your pants.

“On-topic” obsessives are complete swine and a bane on message board culture.

That sort of immigrant recruitment was quite common in that time period in Europe, and had been at least since Henry VII deliberately recruited Flemish textile workers to England in the 15th century.

It is clear that science is not your forte (what is, I wonder). FYI, there are thousands of “peer-reviewed� scientific-looking journals nowadays (personally, I get one or two invitations to join editorial boards of new ones every day, and send them all to hell in polite terms). Some have an impact of 0.02 (meaning that an average paper published there is cited 0.02 times per year, or would have been cited once in 50 years, if the journal lived that long). In practical terms, you get better exposure to the scientific community by putting your poster on the wall than by publishing in journals with impact lower than 2. For comparison, the best journals in biology have an impact in the 30-60 range; anything above 10 is considered reasonably high profile.

BTW, only hopeless “sovok� would cite this person’s job title as an argument that his science is respectable. As they say in the States, “you can take a boy out of the ‘hood, but you can’t take the ‘hood out of a boy�.

No, the colon is just a part of my writing style. Maybe I should change this.

Also, having some Russian artists move to China and make Chinese-Russian fusion art there would certainly be very interesting!

Haven’t some Chinese people been moving to Africa in spite of the lower salaries there, though?

Also, do you think that large-scale Chinese immigration to the West will stop once China’s quality of life and GDP per capita will reach Western European levels?

As for the cognitive elite part, does that mean that you think that it was a mistake for the U.S. to import a lot of Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as to import a lot of Asians after 1965?

Also, does this mean that you would have approved of measures in Tsarist times which compelled a lot of Jews to emigrate from Tsarist Russia (such as the anti-Semitic Pale of Settlement and anti-Jewish affirmative action)?

As for the genetic IQ augmentation part, do you think that we will see significant results in regards to this in our own lifetimes? After all, it would certainly be nice to see a significant increase in average IQs within our own lifetimes as well as to see a massive population boom in underpopulated countries such as Russia within our own lifetimes.

Haven’t some Chinese people been moving to Africa in spite of the lower salaries there, though?

Aren’t a lot of them employed by Chinese companies? I would presume that their salary would be closer to Chinese level.

The elites won’t allow people’s IQ to go up: then the people would see that they are cheated, and figure out by whom. That would be the end of the elites, used to rule over stupid masses that believe their MSM, and rob those suckers blind.

As to increased birthrate, you don’t need miracles or rocket science to achieve that. It can be done by government policies when the government feels the need to increase the population. Apparently, Russian government is not concerned enough about that to do something meaningful.

If one looks at K-pop singers (who tend to portray the ideal Korean beauty standard) I think their looks are also not that distant from anime characters.

Do you have an interesting explanation why K-pop is so popular?

For me it always seemed the militarized and Westernized imitation of Japan, and the music sounds itself like American pop in a new language.

The interest in J-pop is understandable – as it actually sounds musically distinct, with its own melodies – and it reflects Japanese popular culture which is something still original, and product of an unbroken and interesting culture and country.

The interesting thing in K-pop is the similarity to North Korean culture, with the high regimentation and women selected only for aesthetic reasons.

With the music videos, some guys are just using it as porn (but even then most of the audience are female, even the youtube comments).

The Wandering Earth short stories are pretty good in general. Love the quiet optimism that almost sneaks up on you, very much captures that sense in China. There’s a character who writes down simple goals, starts with “Drink non-bitter water” and update them each chapter. It ends with “Give hope to all humanity.”

Death Notice is pretty good as well, but did not survive translation too well in my opinion.

Might as well post the best swordfight ever.