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user-inactivated  ·  3418 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Russian drivers "blink" on the road

You're welcome! Feel free to stick around - and give ideas on the topics: I'm growing blinder to the stuff that's different the more I write about it.

I wouldn't ascribe my motivation to patriotism - though, I won't deny that a part of me is brainwashed to believe Russia to be great, and powerful, and blah blah blah... Patriotism is a false banner, and I won't stand under it.

What drives me is the wish to spread the idea that Russia is more than people in the US are lead to believe through idiotic stereotypes in the modern artistic media. "Oh, Mader Ruhsha is always snowy and cold, da! Vi drink vodka and dance prisyadka! Vaen vi ah bord, vi ride our pet bears!"... Greedy cretins who make money out of people's ignorance. It's a shame to see that ignorance propagated.

I wish that every country's representative users would do the same: every country has something they could share that would amaze non-locals. Tell us about the UK, for example! Do #ukbynatives: I'll follow that shit in a moment.