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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow-Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Russia is wary of listening to America's views on tolerance and even when I am trying to explain the difference between "Afro-American" and "nigger," Russians sometimes make me feel as though I am a cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow-Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Russia is wary of listening to America's views on tolerance and even when I am trying to explain the difference between "Afro-American" and "nigger," Russians sometimes make me feel as though I am a cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...they stood at the center of the empire with other ethnicities under their Great Russian thumb. Now, however, faced seriously with a racially heterogeneous (rather than multinational) society for the first time, Russians in Moscow have taken to a form of racism subtly different from that which exists in America...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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