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13/11/2012 05:01:00
 
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>>So were many embassy children across the world, which doesn't earn them the national tag of the host country.
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
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>I think confusion about whether Ayn Rand is russian or not comes from the fact that in slavik countries Jews were never considered to be "russians", "ukrainians", "serbian",whatever. The anti-semitism and to some extend any anti-small-ethnic group sentiments are so deeply rooted in the slavic world that they labeled people by "nationality." And Jews who may have lived in Russia for many generations still belonged to nationality "Jews". Which was always very humiliating and degrading to us. This is one of the main things that makes USA so good to us, Jews who come from the slavic worlds; we finally belong to the country where we live. When I fill out custom declaration forms whenever I travel abroad, my nationality is USA.

I do not know about other Slavic countries but what you are talking about never existed in Serbia or even whole former Yugoslavia
if you wish. I had more then few friends who I vaguely knew were Jewish but just never made any difference to anybody. We were simply not brought up that way. Quiet opposite, Ex YU was known for respecting national and religion differences.

I can't say that the same spirit exist today after it all went down crushing back in 90ies and nations were turned one against the other
(by the pretty much the same forces that stir majority of conflicts world wide) into a bloody civil war, but that is the spirit I remember, and want to believe many Ex Yu people still embrace.
In nowadays Balkans there is still lot of resentment and bad blood over the recent, past but none of this is directed against Jewish people.

What you call 'anti-small-ethnic group' (which is IMO only true racism) unfortunately exist everywhere in the world and that is something we should all stand/fight against;
What about Arabs in US ? Do they get the same good treatment as you do ? Blacks in South US some 30 years back ? Arabs in Israel today ? Serbians in Kosovo last 50 years ? Algerians or Moroccans in France ? Turks in Germany ? Latino immigrants in US ?
List can go on and on depends on how meticulous and geographically wide you wish to go. But you will find this kind of things all over the world.

Yet you complain about anti-semitism in the country you left long time ago. You even broadly accuse Slavic people of having 'deeply rooted' racism. Sorry but I find it somewhat offensive and insulting. What about racism in the country you live in right now ? Does it bother you at all ? Or maybe you think it does not exist at all in US or in western world ?
Like we are all bright/nice/liberal/civilized and will fight to the nails racism which exist only in certain types of people (namely Slavs , ____ , ____ !) who are inherently racists, beagots and what not. How nice!

And BTW Ayn Rand philosophy sucks on a large scale!
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Srdjan Djordjevic
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