yeah I know! That's what puzzling to me! :) Not in you particularly -- I don't mean to try and pick on any of your feelings, obviously they are not a bit less valid than mine. It is just that it is not the first time I hear from people who were born in Russia that they don't condiser it their home and it is really puzzling to me, I just can't relate to it, that's all. However... I must confess in some of your words previously and also in some other friends' words I did hear certain aggressiveness towards Russia, or should I say... Well, I mean things like "Thank God I don't have to live there!". I believe you said something like that when it was your 10th anniversary in the US or something? Maybe I am mistaken. And the other day another frien who has lived in the US for 15 years now said the same thing. And it really was puzzling -- like, I understand that people may be very happy or content here, but why the need to emphasize how happy they are to NOT be there? I am sorry if I am being unclear - I do not mean it as a personal attack, on the contrary: I feel that with you I could discuss a thing like that.
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Date: 2009-04-06 09:59 pm (UTC)However... I must confess in some of your words previously and also in some other friends' words I did hear certain aggressiveness towards Russia, or should I say... Well, I mean things like "Thank God I don't have to live there!". I believe you said something like that when it was your 10th anniversary in the US or something? Maybe I am mistaken. And the other day another frien who has lived in the US for 15 years now said the same thing. And it really was puzzling -- like, I understand that people may be very happy or content here, but why the need to emphasize how happy they are to NOT be there? I am sorry if I am being unclear - I do not mean it as a personal attack, on the contrary: I feel that with you I could discuss a thing like that.