What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

[tamara48]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

circassian,arab,albanian

[skhara]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

I was aware of that. What's a Russian anyway? Now the Cossacks from Kuban are considered to be Russians as well.

Well the question would be if some Russian couldn't care less what happens to "Caucasians", why would the said Russian give a crap about Ossetians?

What's a Russian? Russian speaking slav.

Kuban Cossacks are Russians, they certainly aren't a seperate ethnic group.

[TomServo]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Well the question would be if some Russian couldn't care less what happens to "Caucasians", why would the said Russian give a crap about Ossetians?

What's a Russian? Russian speaking slav.

Kuban Cossacks are Russians, they certainly aren't a seperate ethnic group.

How do you know the ethnic makeup of that school? The Ossetia region is something like 25% Russian so there's a good chance that there were some Russians in that school.

Anyway, it would be interesting if Fedayeen could tell us more about the racist Russian "schoolmates" he had to put up with.

[skhara]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

I am not saying there weren't. I am pretty sure there were. There were also Armenian kids there too.

My family didn't really have many problems there, but I do hope that Armenians don't make themselves comfortable in Russia.

[MrLeftyHye]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

Some people mistake me for white or mexican.

[sergeyisanov]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

I am a Russian who has 1/4 Armenian blood, and who is living in Turkey for the time being!
Unfortunately racism is growing in Russia day by day. Those in Russia, who attack people with darker skin, don't care whether you are Armenian or Azeri or someone else. The only improtant factor for them is that you look like "Russian" or not...
By the way, about the question "who is Russian", I want to say that if a person feels himself Russian, then he is a Russian. The same is also applicable to other nationalities. There are thousands of people in Turkey who are ethnically Armenian, but they feel themselves Turkish, because they are muslim and they associate themselves with this nationality.

[Lucin]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

So Russians don't dislike Armenians, right?

I’m not trying to generalize it; I just was talking about some Russians, whose behaviour just surprised me.

[Lucin]

Re: What other ethnicity have you been mistaken as?

What about J.ews? They don’t look Russian either but I haven’t heard about them being attacked.