"Russophobia" is a bullshit word to begin with. People don't "fear" the common Russian folk. That would be stupid and pointless. They hate/fear the ruling body of Russia. They have given, and continue to give, ample reasons to do so.
There's certainly a vast difference between "I dislike Russia and its government" and "I dislike Russians" the latter of which I never see said beyond the immature
Is this Russia's new spam campaign? To stop people from talking about them? Russia is the biggest threat to world stability, Its sorta like talking about Hitlerphobia.
There is no russophobia.
It's more like russian antagonism of many things outside their own language.
Example, imagine if in WoW chinese came to european servers and you saw chinese names and chat all over the place.
There's a reason why there are french, german, spanish and italian servers.
It's the same outside of WoW.
Although, to be fair, in portugal every person of russian origin quickly tries to learn portuguese and and integrate society.
There's no russophobia here, that I know of.
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Why did you create a new thread? Use the search function and post in existing threads!
Why did you necro a thread?
Russophobia is as stupid as a concept/word as Islamophobia.
Putin came into power because he didn't rat out his boss. His boss was the mayor of Saint Petersburg who was so corrupt he was selling food meant for the poor on the black market. He was finally arrested and at his trial, Putin didn't testify against him.
Meanwhile Yeltsin was looking for a way of retiring without being convicted for corruption and sent to prison by the future government. Yeltsin and his cronies noticed Putin's loyalty and they decided they would put him in power, in exchange Putin wouldn't bring charges against Yeltsin.
The only thing to blame Russian's in general for is that they don't take charge of their government and clean up the corruption but I'm sure the Russian people would take charge if they knew how.
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Well, i criticize the tyrant Putin and his autocrat regime. Not russia. Russia is a great country.
Uhm...
You absolutely said that. And I quoted the Oxford Dictionaire stating that phoba is either fear or aversion to something, and that aversion is "strong dislike". I.e. it's not "just fear, not hate". It's also hate. What I posted absolutely contradicted what you said, because you were chastising someone for using the word "phobia" to mean hate, when in fact phoba does mean that.
It is pretty funny how "Islamophobia" is a commonly used phrase while "Russophobia" is pretty rare. I think it speaks volumes about how cultural tastemakers can shape public discourse through the choice or words. When Russians hacks John Podesta, that's a real crisis and hysteria around it is definitely not Russophobia, but when Islamic terrorists get a bit stabby again, noticing that it seems to be mostly an Islam problem is quickly branded Islamophobia.
The Google Ngrams for this is a good example of Islamophobia hysteria.
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The thing is, when people talk about "Russia" they almost always mean the Russian state apparatus. Ordinary Russian citizens are of course perfectly fine people who, for a variety of reasons, have zero influence to speak of on global politics.
The analogy you're trying to make seems to imply that a similar circumstance exists for Muslims, but that's just not really the case. While there are many countries that would like to be the undisputed leader of the Muslim world, none yet comes close to claiming that title and the different contenders are far more focused on fighting each other than coordinating against the West.
If islamophobia is real then so is russophobia. You can't have it both ways.