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comment by lil

Maybe because he identifies as a person, not just an ethnicity. Are you Russian, or a Russian person?





user-inactivated  ·  2869 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Over my Hubski presence I've always called myself "a Russian" - that is, a member of the Russian national community, born into and by blood. It doesn't make me less of a person or more diluted into the national stereotype, as many of the hubskiers will agree.

I mean no offence to the author; oppressed communities - Jews, blacks, hispanics - seem to be the only ones to used that construction, and I find it weird that they even have to.