Derrick Lewis Doesn't Want to Recreate Drago vs Apollo, Refuses to Fight Volkov in Russia.

ImNotSurpisedDonks! said:
I think it's hillarious when foreigners enter the landmine known as PC American race culture.

It was hillarious when Conor, a guy from a country with no black people in it or racial history, tried cooling down racial tensions by referring to himself as "black from the belly button down", then saying he could not be racist because he likes hip hop music. The better he tried to make it, the more he triggered the Lord of Cultural Appropriation, Shaun 'I just look white' King
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I'm also foreign to this , but the nickname Talcum X is one of the funniest things i've ever seen, for that Shaun King weirdo.
 
Spearfish CA said:
I disagree. Most other countries are pretty much mono-ethnic. Most western/first-world countries have some degree of representation from a variety of cultures, but none like the US. And I think the US is currently on the leading edge of progress in terms of cultural acceptance. I mean, consider how extremely taboo it is now to be seen as racist or insensitive (and this extends far beyond race.)


I don't think people from other countries, including Canada for sure, understand the environment in most major US cities, especially those near the coasts. I think if you turned Moscow into Los Angeles, you'd see how they really feel about minorities. It's easy to pretend to be open minded when your city is 90%+ one race, and/or when there are only a couple distinct ethnic groups largely confined to one area in a city.

I think people are roughly the same everywhere, and tolerance doesn't happen overnight. In the US, we've had a much greater degree of exposure to many races living side by side, and it took a long time and a lot of pain before things started to be more peaceful and truly equitable. And we've had a lot of carried over issues from the centuries past that other countries, with a more modern influx of foreign peoples, haven't had to deal with. When your country's main ethnic groups immigrated in the last few decades, yeah, it's going to be much smoother than if they came in 1950 or before.

But overall, I think people from other countries underestimate what it's like having a litany of foreign cultures around you all the time. Personally, I love it. I get to eat all their great food and learn new things about different people. But I am hard-pressed to believe that people from other countries, who aren't used to it and haven't grown up with it like I have, would see it that way. If you guys walked a mile in our shoes, you'd learn just how tolerant you really are and I think you'd be a little disappointed in yourselves and your countrymen. If America isn't the least racist country in the world, it's daaaaamn close to it.
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Nice PR pitch. The US is mostly segregated.
 
Beer tastes awful said:
If I was black I wouldn't want to go to Russia either

A lot of those Euro soccer-crazy countries are known for being super racist

People always think I'm joking when I tell em that America is the least racist country in the world, but they don't wanna hear it

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These wonderful values are well exemplified by its finest citizen
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It's not surprising that people know barely anything about the world outside their own country. Meanwhile both Europe and USA are by far the least racist areas in the world when compared to the likes of Africa, Middle-East or Asia.
 
Spearfish CA said:
I disagree. Most other countries are pretty much mono-ethnic. Most western/first-world countries have some degree of representation from a variety of cultures, but none like the US. And I think the US is currently on the leading edge of progress in terms of cultural acceptance. I mean, consider how extremely taboo it is now to be seen as racist or insensitive (and this extends far beyond race.)


I don't think people from other countries, including Canada for sure, understand the environment in most major US cities, especially those near the coasts. I think if you turned Moscow into Los Angeles, you'd see how they really feel about minorities. It's easy to pretend to be open minded when your city is 90%+ one race, and/or when there are only a couple distinct ethnic groups largely confined to one area in a city.

I think people are roughly the same everywhere, and tolerance doesn't happen overnight. In the US, we've had a much greater degree of exposure to many races living side by side, and it took a long time and a lot of pain before things started to be more peaceful and truly equitable. And we've had a lot of carried over issues from the centuries past that other countries, with a more modern influx of foreign peoples, haven't had to deal with. When your country's main ethnic groups immigrated in the last few decades, yeah, it's going to be much smoother than if they came in 1950 or before.

But overall, I think people from other countries underestimate what it's like having a litany of foreign cultures around you all the time. Personally, I love it. I get to eat all their great food and learn new things about different people. But I am hard-pressed to believe that people from other countries, who aren't used to it and haven't grown up with it like I have, would see it that way. If you guys walked a mile in our shoes, you'd learn just how tolerant you really are and I think you'd be a little disappointed in yourselves and your countrymen. If America isn't the least racist country in the world, it's daaaaamn close to it.
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Well, you know that in Russia there lives people of more than 185 ethnicities (you can look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia or here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_Russia) (I think there were some changing in stats over the years, like they started to list Greek Albanians and Italian Albanians just as Albanians)? And in Russia non-Whites and Muslims lives for centuries, so I think US probably has more people from Africa, than Russia (like, I think I've seen stats that around 2000 Somalians lives in Russia (Russian wikipedia claims that number is higher and around 5000) while in US there is more than 100000 of them). Plus, there is multiple republics in Russia where ethnically Russian is a minority, I'm not sure that there is multiple states in US where Whites is a minority.
 
Spearfish CA said:
I disagree. Most other countries are pretty much mono-ethnic. Most western/first-world countries have some degree of representation from a variety of cultures, but none like the US. And I think the US is currently on the leading edge of progress in terms of cultural acceptance. I mean, consider how extremely taboo it is now to be seen as racist or insensitive (and this extends far beyond race.)


I don't think people from other countries, including Canada for sure, understand the environment in most major US cities, especially those near the coasts. I think if you turned Moscow into Los Angeles, you'd see how they really feel about minorities. It's easy to pretend to be open minded when your city is 90%+ one race, and/or when there are only a couple distinct ethnic groups largely confined to one area in a city.

I think people are roughly the same everywhere, and tolerance doesn't happen overnight. In the US, we've had a much greater degree of exposure to many races living side by side, and it took a long time and a lot of pain before things started to be more peaceful and truly equitable. And we've had a lot of carried over issues from the centuries past that other countries, with a more modern influx of foreign peoples, haven't had to deal with. When your country's main ethnic groups immigrated in the last few decades, yeah, it's going to be much smoother than if they came in 1950 or before.

But overall, I think people from other countries underestimate what it's like having a litany of foreign cultures around you all the time. Personally, I love it. I get to eat all their great food and learn new things about different people. But I am hard-pressed to believe that people from other countries, who aren't used to it and haven't grown up with it like I have, would see it that way. If you guys walked a mile in our shoes, you'd learn just how tolerant you really are and I think you'd be a little disappointed in yourselves and your countrymen. If America isn't the least racist country in the world, it's daaaaamn close to it.
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Also if you are interested, Russian population by languages, data from 1989, 2002 and 2010 (in Russian) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Этно-языковой_состав_населения_России
 
Drago and his camp were very racially inclusive as evidenced by his black trainer, Derrick Lewis is uninformed.

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I just thought he meant fuck getting on a plane for 18 hours to go fight.
 
If only Michael Winslow/ Sgt. Jones felt the same way, Police Academy 7 could have been avoided.
 
theres no point in going to russia for usa fighters when everything important is happening in usa

you have to fly out your coaches, train there and pay taxes out of your 50k paycheque

might aswell fight for free
 
Moscow is great nowadays, not racist at all. And very safe , amount of cops per square meter is too damn high. Nowhere near to a tough place like it was growing up in the 90ies.
Very clean too, compared even to some European capitals. I for exmaple love one particular very ancoent city, but the amount of litter is disturbing
 
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