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View submission: Western Europe is xenophobic towards Slavs and other eastern europeans
As a Belarusian living for five years in the US and 15 in Canada, I was a bit shocked at how easily North American entertainers (and ordinary people) do Russian accents and make jokes about Russians, when they wouldn't dream of doing this about, say, Indians (except the famous case of Apu), or non-Russian Slavs such as the Poles (something that used to be common decades ago, before my time). I'm not Russian, and I don't like Russia's foreign policy, etc., but yes, I find the casual way one can laugh at Russians in North American society to be one of the last few forms of racism still deemed acceptable by society.
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