(necessary comment added two hours after a blank repost and after reading the comments)
It’s interesting that almost everyone perceives this text by Dilyara as an “attack,” because they see a contrast between the lines: “I am smart, while they are stupid and narrow-minded.” Actually, she wrote in such a way that, yes, this can be read between the lines, and it’s bad. But the actual lines say something different.
Dilyara writes that there are groups of people with different values, who grew up in different environments, were raised on different ideals, and who are largely incompatible with her, Dinara. And let’s face it, they are incompatible with many of us as well. However, incompatibility is not bad. That’s just how the world is structured; it’s diverse.
She talks about Russia. But it’s the same here in the USA if you drive around the country. If I get in a car and drive for half an hour to an hour west, I will move from our area with an average household income of 120K per year to a place where the average income is 22K. This is true for any major country. Do you think it’s different in China? France? Germany? It’s more or less the same everywhere.
Dinara gave her own characterization of such a group. Any generalization of people is evil. All people are different. Roughly speaking, each person is a bundle of traits taken from their environment, upbringing, from parents, from school, from television. But to an individual observer, some patterns always seem to appear. That’s what Dilyara noticed. I would remove something, add something else if I were forced to generalize with a soldering iron in hand. Everyone has their own experience, and their own generalizations. I try not to generalize because it is mathematically impossible if you were to formalize all these traits.
But, I think it’s important to understand such groups in some form, to understand their motives, actions, desires. These groups exist everywhere, in the USA, in Russia. They vote. They go out on tractors to rallies in Europe. Sometimes they grab pitchforks and overthrow rulers. And sometimes they ignore what seems important to us, and demand some nonsense that we find unimportant.
In some countries, the proportion of such people is larger, in others smaller. They are certainly not worse than us, nor are we better than them. They are just different from us. Because they grew up in a different context, in a different environment. Of course, when it comes to making decisions, they are guided by the values of their group, not ours.
I thought Dilyara’s post was about this.
I cannot help but recall the controversy around Dima Markov’s photos, which depict provincial Russia as it is, with dirt, trash, alcoholics, graffiti on leaning fences, and the like. For some reason, people react to those with “why show us the very worst, it’s like this everywhere.” Of course, it’s everywhere – take, for example, Louisiana from the first season of True Detective. It’s just life, this is how people live and think. People vary. Every country has its differences. Maybe in somewhere like Luxembourg or Norway, their proportion is smaller – just because of a different distribution of capital population versus provincial population, but all large countries are more or less the same in this regard.
Well, that’s the comment.
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