On the limits of Russian
attempt to engage a meaningful dialogue on national issues every now and then stumbles the absurdity of the dispute "as distinguished from non-Russian Russian?" It is strange that such questions asked by people living with birth surrounded by Russian. I did not want to deal with this topic, but did not stop provocateurs , and attempts to answer them not always enough friendly. Meanwhile, there is no ground for conflict and resentment.
First of all, we must clearly distinguish between the context in which to ask this question: whether it is a Russian as a civic nation or an ethnic Russian as group. Civil nation need to think as a team: "playing for our people, our team, against our competitors by our rules, then - ours." By Russian civic nation belongs to all Russian-speaking, who wants this and loyal Russian. A man who wants to play a Russian team "against rival "Command", there is no reason to hide their origins, to worry about, will find his "full-blooded Russian," or not. Conversely, the more he candor in this issue, the less he has complexes about it, the more confidence he will call.
another matter - as the Russian ethnic group. Ethnicity identification - an intimate, family affair, with that born and die, it should not be confused with citizenship or partisanship. The fundamental mistake people make, trying to determine the boundaries of the Russian ethnic group is their passion for indecent dichotomy of the "Russian / non-Russian." However, ethnic group, like many other real-world objects has blurred, "thick" borders. If ethnic groups live side by side or in one area, apart from those whose ethnicity non-alternative , there is always plenty of people with intermediate identities. You simply take for granted the existence of a buffer «alternatively Russian» : that is, people who in addition to the Russian identity, have some reason to indicate otherwise. Need to get rid of the obsessive desire to share the "alternative Russian" insiders "and" outsiders "with a specially sharpened the definition. Absurd debate about "defining Russian" often caused by the desire to eliminate this intermediate group, "mentally raped" her and artificially divide its members to "uniquely Russian" and "unequivocally non-Russians. " And that is wrong and impossible.
attempt to shift the focus "definition of Russian" is not the core of the ethnic group, and the border situation and the specific the problems it generates, makes it unfit and self determination. At the same time suffer themselves "Russian alternative, which try to fit in a uniform template and to deprive a double identity (and it's not only "problem", but also a special gift of fate).
for a "clean Russian" ethnic identity rigidly defined origin. The representative of the ethnic core, ie a person born Russian parents and raised in the Russian media, has here any degrees of freedom. And here at "alternative Russian" have a choice. For the "alternative Russian" "the degree of their Russian-ness" is defined not by a "definition" "Count% of the blood, but only their personal positions, actions, and evaluation of these actions by other Russian. They are Russian, to the extent to which they themselves considered to be Russian, and what others take them for Russian. Here play the role of their relationships not only with Russian, but also with the ethnic group in the direction of which there is an alternative.
typical example here - Pushkin. Integrate "back to Ethiopia" real Pushkin would not have been easier than "go" in German, French or any other ethnic group. Thread connecting it with the tribe's great-grandfather, was broken. In Russia at that time he was a Russian alternative. Nothing would change even if the king sent him as ambassador to Ethiopia. He certainly would flirt with the Ethiopians, advertising their origin, but only in order to ingratiate themselves and their leaders to win over policy favorable to Russia.
But suppose that in St. Petersburg since the days of Peter I settled the whole community of Ethiopian migrants to preserve their language and culture. Assume that the ancestors of Pushkin married in Russian, however, kept in touch with this community, tried to convey to their children some Ethiopian customs. Assume that Pushkin in his childhood listening to Ethiopian nurse, learned something from this culture and was filled with sympathy for the Ethiopian brethren. Growing up, he would think about the hard life in the inhospitable Ethiopians, Russia, to devote this issue their poems. Instead, "Dubrovsky" would have written "Uncle Tom's Cabin. Instead of "Poltava" - a poem about a glorious victory of the Negus Iyasu I over Turkish naib Moussa. Some poems he would have written in Amharic, studied and fell in love with this beautiful language. And this is without a doubt, would have been brilliant poetry. I have not found the Internet an online translator into Amharic, but translated into Kiswahili, "I remember a wonderful moment" looks like this:
Nakumbuka wakati wa ajabu:
Kabla yangu alionekana,
Kama maono duniani,
Kama sanamu ya urembo safi.
Pushkin, of course, would help the Ethiopian community, give her patronage, to intercede for her, using his connections at court. He would call for a duel everyone who is treated badly by the Ethiopians. He was engaged to charity in favor of the Ethiopians would be built for them to hospitals, schools and orphanages. Ethiopians would be idolized by Pushkin, it would be considered their guardian angel. Clearly, in this situation, he himself would have regarded themselves as "alternative Russian, and the surrounding would have seen this alternative. People who like to see "% of the blood, not without reason, said would be that "Pushkin - polurussky, poluefiop.
But even this fact would not prevent him from becoming a full member of Russian civil nation. Assume that Pushkin, as a wise man, he was afraid to turn the Ethiopian community angry at the Russian criminal community that everyone hates. He became to smooth out conflicts between Russian and Ethiopian, to bring the latest in a spirit of respect and friendliness to the indigenous population, would help them in their schools learn Russian language and culture, pour over the ethnic group in the Russian civil nation. For Ethiopians, it would be a true teacher of life, for Russian - a guide the integration of Ethiopians. I think that in the end, and the Ethiopians, and Russian would become aware of Pushkin not only as a poet but also as a great public figure, a teacher of international harmony and friendship among peoples. And we are today with even more reason to say: "Pushkin - is everything to us!»
general formula that allows to share an "alternative Russian "to" uniquely Russian "and" more non-Russian ", is impossible because" the alternative Russian "are living human beings, with their Personal history. The process of assimilation into the Russian depends on many factors, a family may take a generation, and another family - and ten generations is not enough. It all depends on the person with whom people communicate, how they raise their children, what identity they instill, as taught to look at the surrounding Russian people.
Much also depends on the "starting position" on whether the source is close to the Russian ethnos. In some cases, assimilation is not required even intermarried. For example, a family of ethnic Ukrainians, having no "Bandera complexes and good speaking in Russian, will be perceived as a Russian. Even more so - their child, who grew up in Russia, even if he is proud of his small home and jokingly called himself a "crest". Ukrainians and Belarusians majority Russian perceived as "part of a united people," as "almost Russian", or as subethnos Russian. Most Russian without any problems agree to call "Russian" Russified the Finno-Ugric people of Karelia and the Volga region, who live in friendship with the Russian for hundreds of years ago with mixed at the genetic and cultural level. But the Zulus to integrate into the "uniquely Russian" somewhat difficult. For all the sympathy of the Russian (as "white Negroes") to the Negro people, "afrorussky" is perceived as exotic, because it contradicts the image of ethnic stereotypes. Probably the descendants of Hannibal were recognized by others as' completely Russian, "only when lit up considerably, despite the fact that the ideology of racism in Russia was not.
not get people to take someone to a Russian, if they do not believe this. Intuitive, tacit, spontaneous recognition "of their ethnic" and "ethnically alien", various degrees of both - is an inherent property of a living ethnic group. This intuition is fundamentally important to the preservation of ethnicity and ethnic identity. Ethnos - this is a lot of people are without any "certificates with seals and DNA tests can more or less uniquely identify each other as Russian. Scientists, experts can only watch this process from the side and try to recreate it a possible model.
Someone may be an illusion "vicious terms in the definition: "How is it that you define through Russian Russian now!" Yes, exactly: Russian need to define "a Russian" and not through other people. "Vicious circle" is not here: for the ethnic group, as for any historically given object is a fundamental connection to the place and time, to its unique history. This ethnic group is not "universal essence in the world of ideas," but "nature-individual, entity, historically rooted" here in these people, here in this land. " In other words, Russian, as an ethnic group - is not "birch general", but "this is the birch tree, growing on a riverbank, which my grandfather, Ivan Sergeyevich planted forty years ago. "
Although Russian is not peculiar to shake the genealogies of 40 tribes, however, a general idea of their roots (at least until the grandparents), the "small homeland" whence came the ancestors - is an important part of ethnic identity. If the majority of Russian indifference to the subject of origin, it is because he does not expect there are no surprises, realizing that the ancestors of the great-grandfather and to the king Peas - "peasants H-ray province. The roots of most Russian genealogy, if they follow по архивам, как бы «вырастают из самой земли», «теряются где-то там, в полях и лесах», пунктиром восходя к «дорусской» эпохе, когда наши славянские (и не только) ancestors still lived in some rural communities, and wondered about the ethnicity. If the archive, family tradition or facial features allow suspect in one of the ancestors assimilated "is not entirely Slav", then the identity is not affected, if not open a real alternative revert to the "ancestral ethnicity. If the alternative is real, then anywhere from it no escape and no "definition" is not correct.
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