So much so, that when walking with one aqueintance and stumbling upon a little free library to find a children's book for learning Russian I was shocked to my core.
Oh cute, that's pretty nice. Could use it, if it were in better condition.
"Why would you like to know the language of the enemy?"
I was stumped. What the fuck does one say in this situation?
That's fucking sad... But yeah, I can honestly imagine some relatives of mine having the same reaction if I wanted to learn Arabic (I'm Spanish). Our revisionist foundational myth of Reconquista is extremely deeply rooted in society and it's very islamophobic and eurocentrist
So much so, that when walking with one aqueintance and stumbling upon a little free library to find a children's book for learning Russian I was shocked to my core.
Oh cute, that's pretty nice. Could use it, if it were in better condition.
"Why would you like to know the language of the enemy?"
I was stumped. What the fuck does one say in this situation?
That's fucking sad... But yeah, I can honestly imagine some relatives of mine having the same reaction if I wanted to learn Arabic (I'm Spanish). Our revisionist foundational myth of Reconquista is extremely deeply rooted in society and it's very islamophobic and eurocentrist
It's weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.
That was my response then, I asked her "What, and German wasn't useful in 1942?"
I don't remember the conversation past that point. Must've dozed off after the initial shock.