Russian Places
How The Times Have Changed
Neighbors and brothers make for the most bitter of enemies. Just look at any quantity of historic rivalries for proof: As an interloper, one is always puzzled, and even amused, by how closely the antagonists resemble each other, despite the denials of the warring parties themselves.
Who can tell a Greek from a Turk, or a Turk from a Kurd? What's the difference between a Chinese, a Japanese and a Vietnamese? Are Indians and Pakistanis really that distinguishable, or for that matter Pakistanis and Bangladeshis? How about Frenchmen and Germans, or the English and Irish?
Whether you inspect Arabs and Jews or Russians and Ukrainians or Ukrainians or Poles or Poles and Germans, you'll find bitter histories which call into question their common cultural and linguistic ties. It is truly extraordinary how our human minds can make so much of so little, and conversely reduce to nothing all that we have in common.
Africa is a most engaging example for African-Americans raised on a diet composed of victim-hood. What stupefies many African-Americans is the extremely entrenched hatreds different clans have for one another. Kikuyu against Masai, Tutsi against Hutu, Hausa against Igbo against Yoruba it's all really mad, as an independent 3rd party can right away see.
And it's all human nature, of course. Most of us who grew up with brothers can testify to quite a few rivalries in our adolescence, and plenty still maintain uneasy relations with their relations. Then there are our neighbours, whether we all know them or not "hell is other people", as Jean-Paul Sartre stated in all seriousness.
The United States of America is the most interesting experiment in getting along there is. For it is in the U. S. that former enemies can get along to oppose new ones,eg Germans and Poles against Mexicans, and new enemies can be made among people who previously had no contact whatsoever, such as Koreans and blacks.
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Bogolubovo Places of Interests (Russian Railways)
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