• marmulak@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There are good people from Russia, but Russia can and does make people bad. It’s a country where severe levels of bigotry, racism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other similar things are normalized. I live in the former USSR and people here who are more Russianized develop a superiority complex where they look down on everyone else. I’ve continuously been told by them, that they think the US is an awful country because it’s full of black people and run by gays and Jews. I’ll never get used to it.

    I’d have to know the person first before judging them personally, but if you’re asking me to just blindly choose to accept either a Russian or Ugandan immigrant, I’ll choose the Ugandan.

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      2 years ago

      By that logic, people from United States should have been banned from visiting other countries decades ago.

      But the logic doesnt make any sense. If people can leave their country, it will allow them to know different perspectives, and show that improvements in their own country are possible.