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Me in my Rosie the Riveter Costume last Halloween |
They really don't have Women's Studies here in Russia. They also don't have a word for Women's Studies in Russian so when I told someone I studied in the Political Science and Women's Studies Departments. She thought that meant I would teach at an all girls school. I told her no I study the issues faced by women and her reaction was what issues are those? The interesting thing about that is I know all the words for women's issues like domestic violence, human trafficking, rape, and incest in Russia but I can't seem to remember simple words like strawberry! The people that I seem to have these conversations with are educated elites too such as professors at my institute and fellow students, not the average person on the street.
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Russian women don't understand feminism because they don't understand Western mindset. Russian and Western mentalities are different ( collectivist vs individualist).
ReplyDeleteThe same confusion and misunderstanding arises between Americans and Russians in the way how they define their nationality.
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