Thread 214196153

Serbs are irritated at Russians for not speaking Serbian even though the country has a lot of other foreigners who speak no Serbisan because we're brother nations.

>>214196153 (OP)
they should learn Russian at school just like it was when Tito was prime minister

>>214196227
This. Russian is the lingua franca of the Orthodox world

>>214196153 (OP)
>has a lot of other foreigners
Not really. If you suddenly get hundreds of thousands of people who don't speak English and don't speak Serbian it's a problem.
Also, for some reason your people think everybody should speak Russian even though no one has the need for it so you have a natural resistance to learning other languages.

>>214197166
And nobody interacts with Chinese people, but Russians live in cities and work higher-skilled jobs.
If you're brown/asian and work construction in middle of nowhere nobody is concerned about your language.

>>214196153 (OP)
everyone would be irritated if his country is suddenly flooded by people who think their native language is better than the language of the host country and expect the natives to learn the language of the immigrants rather than the other way round
in a sense we have a similar problem with some Ukrainians here who only speak Russian and don't bother learning Polish because Russian is enough to get by here at this point, the size of Russian-speaking diaspora is so big so they have all necessary services and jobs only in Russian.

>>214196153 (OP)
>>214197415
it's especially annoying when we're talking about fellow Slavs for whom learning another Slavic language to a quite high level of proficiency shouldn't take more than one month, in many cases it's a matter of "switching the code" rather than actual learning. But you can feel many Russian-speakers don't do it on purpose, they have an extreme superiority complex, they think Russian culture is the greatest in the world, Russian language is a global lingua franca and they won't learn an irrelevant language of some "limitrof" because it would hurt their pride.

Funnily enough, it's not even a new thing, we had exactly the same problem with White Russian diaspora that lived here in the 1920s/30s. But at least their excuse was that they were aristocrats, meanwhile most of current Russian-speaking diaspora are regular working-class people yet many of them show the same kind of arrogant attitude.

>>214197507
I could never understand this paradox between how Russians think their culture is the greatest in the world and at the same time the fact that they have to live abroad because their "greatest culture" is completely unable to create a functional, stable and developed state.

>>214197507
It's because they're continuous empire with like 7 centuries of rule.
French, Germans also have this behaviour on a lesser scale.
And on top of that their information sphere is so big their kids don't "have" to learn English.

But there is no excuse for a bad attitude. If you're escaping from your government then ditch your arrogance.

>>214197166
russians just assume you'll understand them if you speak another slavic language. on the black sea coast there's russians that have been living here for decades and still barely know bulgarian

>>214197602
I do understand them enough (I play DOTA 2 and can communicate simple stuff) but for mutual understanding you need enough IQ and a normal attitude.

>>214197602
not gonna looking for an excuse but Bulgarian is basically Russian without cases
knowing Russian, I can read BG wikipedia without problems, you just need to get used to that case endings are replaced with prepositions

>>214197656
reading and speaking are quite different. if i speak bulgarian to a russian he won't understand most of it and vice versa due to the pronunciation

>>214197532
seems that youve never met an albanian. this shit is more common than you think.

>>214198614
>Serbs wanted a right wing immigration from Russia
Nobody that isn't drinking koolaid wants immigration of any sort.