Women's Volleyball FIVB Intercontinental Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019

[Monzanator 4,502]

7 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

That doesn’t vindicate his actions though. I mean, I expect higher standards from someone in a position like him. 

 

Really? Like LDOG said, Russia and most of Central/Eastern Europe doesn't really care much about racial insensivity. You're applying Western standards where they don't fit

[Olympian1010 7,973]

13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Really? Like LDOG said, Russia and most of Central/Eastern Europe doesn't really care much about racial insensivity. You're applying Western standards where they don't fit

I wouldn’t call not being a racist a Western standard. That’s kind of a thin line you’re walking there. I understand the East has diversification issues, but excusing them is not the way to move forward.

[Monzanator 4,502]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I wouldn’t call not being a racist a Western standard. That’s kind of a thin line you’re walking there. I understand the East has diversification issues, but excusing them is not the way to move forward.

 

It doesn't matter what your way of moving forward is, you won't change the Russian and/or Eastern European culture whatsoever. Asians or black people are "strangers" over here and that is unlikely to change

[diable 27]

17 godzin temu, Olympian1010 napisał:

Raise your hand if you’re not shocked by a Russian being racist

 

 

He is Italian. 

 

[nenad 442]

15 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Oh Eastern Europe

 

really dude? you want to go there?

 

from a nation that was built on the backbone of slaves, where 400 people a year still gets gunned down in cities like Chicago or Baltimore, of course all of them black. from a nation that wants to rule the world, meddle in other people business all the time bringing chaos, despair and suffering wherever their boots lay ground across the world, thousands of miles from your own shores?

 

please don't generalize like this. because generalization gets you here. 

[Dunadan 1,103]

A great lesson on about generalizations coming from mister "British are always the worst" himself. No double standards here. 

[dareza 911]

26 minutes ago, diable said:

 

He is Italian. 

 

 

Lol 

[phelps 7,675]

by the way, in Italy that gesture doesn't have anything to do with racism or trying to offend anybody...

 

on the other hand, if you indicate the number #2 as you normally do in the USA (raising index and little finger like in the horn gesture), it's highly likely that here (especially in the big cities and in the Southern part of the Country) you get a knife in your stomach in less than 1/100 of a second...

 

every place has its own meaning to the same kind of gestures, generalizing is always the worst thing to do (and ignoring that is even worse)...

[heywoodu 15,140]

56 minutes ago, diable said:

 

He is Italian. 

 

When someone's second ever post on the forum is a diehard fact-check  

Edited August 8, 2019 by heywoodu

[ChandlerMne 1,037]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

by the way, in Italy that gesture doesn't have anything to do with racism or trying to offend anybody...

 

on the other hand, if you indicate the number #2 as you normally do in the USA (raising index and little finger like in the horn gesture), it's highly likely that here (especially in the big cities and in the Southern part of the Country) you get a knife in your stomach in less than 1/100 of a second...

 

every place has its own meaning to the same kind of gestures, generalizing is always the worst thing to do (and ignoring that is even worse)...

I remember that Spanish basketball team was criticised back in 2008 for doing exactly the same thing. Just before Beijing OG.