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- Mona00MostafaDecember 2020
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exRangerDecember 2020 I love Slavic culture, particularly the culture of Eastern Slavs -- i.e., Russians, Ukrainians and Belarus. The fact that I lived in the USSR from 1978-1986 as part of my 10 years in the US Army Special Forces (75th Rangers Second Battalion and Delta Force Specialist, LRRP) certainly was a factor in the development of this affinity, but the ”Russian bug” bit me even before I was billeted to the (then) USSR as part of a special exchange program between the Soviet Army and the United States Army. So what is it about ”East Slavic Culture” that I liked so much? Remember that I refer SPECIFICALLY to SOVIET TIMES. As I recall it pertained to THE SLAVIC SOUL, something unlike anything I’d ever experienced in The States ... in fact the only aspect of life in America that comes close the RUSSIAN SOUL is Chicago’s South Side ”BLUES” culture, an element of urban life in the USA w/ which I was also very familiar, having been raised on Chicago’s South Side at the zenith of the city’s cultural impact on the world via Chicago BLUES and GOSPEL music. But this too points to something (again) special about East SLAVIC CULTURE: The East Slavic and ”Soviet” worlds persisted in the music of their indigenous culture and did not ”culturally capitulate” to the Lure of the West (chiefly via Chicago BLUES), as did THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD (UK, Australia, etc.) and JAPAN and most of Western Europe (exception: France) in the 1960s and 1970s. |
Mona00MostafaJanuary 2021 Sounds interesting, Thank you.
vincentJanuary 2021 Thanks
SykdottJanuary 2021 I like how Americans always greet you with asking how you are doing. |
TiskitablettiJanuary 2021 Small talk
MexicanNameNoGenesSeptember 2021 I love recipes from South America that aren’t in English online they are wildly different than the US-Texas-Mexican food I’m used to and it makes me feel so happy because it feels like going there to me without being like ”Ah well, I’ll never go there it’s too expensive (dream festers for several years and makes me bitter” Internet really does connect us all so much more than I realized. |