Russian is a nationality that includes the ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Tatars, Mongols, Chechnyans, etc.
You are not a citizen of anything. Citizens have rights. All you all in Russia do not have civil rights. It is a lie. A great Russian writer E. Zamyatin wrote: We have only one right. The right to be punished. And we will stand firm to defend this right until we die. This is the kind of "citizens" you are. Sorry! You are mere "subjects".
"I'm Jewish (Tatar, Bashkir, Mari, Yakut, Tuva and other -in Russia of many nationalities)" - these are not nationalities. These are ethnic groups.
The same here, in America - there are multiple ethnic groups - English, Irish, German, Italian, Russian, French, Jewish, Chinese, you tell me what else.
But the nationality of all of them is the same - American. And yes, they all are citizens here.
When we look at Russia, we see you all as one nation, the Russians. We do not care whether some of you is of Jewish, Tatar, Bashkir, Mari, Yakut, Tuva and other ethnicity. You all are Russian for us.
Your problem is you do not perceive it this way. You do not feel yourselves as a nation. Because the Russian is still an "unformed" nation, one may say it in the Russian language: недо-нация. I am sorry one more time but it is how the things stand.
You are absolutely wrong.
You are not a citizen of anything. Citizens have rights. All you all in Russia do not have civil rights. It is a lie.
A great Russian writer E. Zamyatin wrote: We have only one right. The right to be punished. And we will stand firm to defend this right until we die. This is the kind of "citizens" you are. Sorry!
You are mere "subjects".
"I'm Jewish (Tatar, Bashkir, Mari, Yakut, Tuva and other -in Russia of many nationalities)" - these are not nationalities. These are ethnic groups.
The same here, in America - there are multiple ethnic groups - English, Irish, German, Italian, Russian, French, Jewish, Chinese, you tell me what else.
But the nationality of all of them is the same - American. And yes, they all are citizens here.
When we look at Russia, we see you all as one nation, the Russians. We do not care whether some of you is of Jewish, Tatar, Bashkir, Mari, Yakut, Tuva and other ethnicity.
You all are Russian for us.
Your problem is you do not perceive it this way. You do not feel yourselves as a nation. Because the Russian is still an "unformed" nation, one may say it in the Russian language: недо-нация. I am sorry one more time but it is how the things stand.