Way to Russia Community and Forum

If you have a question or want to help someone, please, go to
Way to Russia Forum on our Facebook page.

We also invite you to join our Facebook community, where you can meet other travelers and read interesting news on topics ranging from visa regulations to culture and music.

We are currently moving the old forum to Facebook, so what you see below functions as an archive.

If you have a question, please, post it on
Way to Russia Facebook Discussions Page

FAQ

Usergroups

Log in to check your private messages

Chat

Log in

What is a Russian?
Goto page Previous 1, 2

Way to Russia Talk Lounge Forum Index -> Russian People

Author

Message

init6
WayToRussified

Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 363
Location: Москва, Россия

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:10 am Post subject:

This thread is also two months old. Just out of curiosity, why do you resurrect so many dead threads, Vettra?

Myskin.it
Just Starting

Joined: 10 Apr 2005
Posts: 4
Location: VERONA, ITALIA

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject:

Reply with quote

vettra wrote:

Camrade wrote:

So russkyi is a nationality, rossijanin is a status - just two different words. Foreigners can't understand it without studying russian because in english you have word "russian" and nothing more Smile

Smile

This appears to me as yet another America-bashing and over-simplification by looking at an obscure language feature, then saying "look! therefore you people are dumb!". {the writer however uses "Foreigners" not "Americans" - how polite}. FYI, one can say things like "American citizen", "American national", "Afro-American", "Asian-American", "American-born", "expat", "immigrant American", "green card holder".... I could go on for a long time elucidating and articulating all the words and phrases that describe every shade and nuances available in Russian.

Please dont be so negative.
Even in Italy we have only a word to translate "russian" and no more.
But all people know Russian language is not so easy like English.
"American citizen", "American national" and so on are 2 words: in this case a meaning is done from two different concepts.
In Russian language you must know the difference between "russkyi" and "rossijanin" studing the therms.
In English you can use a composed word (that is easyer to remember)

gonzock
Lounge Lizard

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 101

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject:

People that live in the Sahara desert have more than 100 words to call different kind of camels. In many other languages there´s only one, camel. This doesn´t mean that are calling you dumb and that is again American-bashing when they try to explain you that

MrSpice
Lounge Wizard

Joined: 14 Jul 2003
Posts: 3431

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

You cannot always identify a russian easily because it's a mix of a variety ethnic group. Yet many russians are not very tolerant of other ethnic groups.

mister_wizzz
VIP

Joined: 27 May 2004
Posts: 582

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

Reply with quote

MrSpice wrote:

You cannot always identify a russian easily because it's a mix of a variety ethnic group. Yet many russians are not very tolerant of other ethnic groups.

BTW I know Marat Safin is Tatar, so how "Russians" would identify him ? Tatar, Russian Tatar, Russian ?

Camrade
VIP

Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 516
Location: Санкт-Петербург

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

2mister_wizzz russian

vettra
Lounge Lizard

Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Posts: 123
Location: Cleveland

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

Reply with quote

init6 wrote:

This thread is also two months old. Just out of curiosity, why do you resurrect so many dead threads, Vettra? Question

Question

I live in a time warp

Display posts from previous:

	Way to Russia Talk Lounge Forum Index -> Russian People	All times are GMT + 3 Hours Goto page Previous 1, 2
Page 2 of 2