Was that man gay or something?

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My point was simply that lots of straight cis people are perfectly fine with homosexuality. I am aware that people who aren't still exist as well.

Here they seem to be mostly elderly and/or from the countryside (or super religious.)

[/I've heard that that's widely a thing in the USA, too, though there are exceptions.

BTW I am positively surprised on how many people in Japan accept homosexuality; I expected the number to be smaller there.

Spies. Whether they come in from the cold, or not, are small in number.

The point is that MANY groups were oppressed in the old Soviet Union. A number of religious groups, including Jews, were mistreated well into the Seventies. "Save Soviet Jewry" was a common bumper sticker in the US then.

This guy whom the OP met could just as easily have said "I knew folks who fled Russia because they were Jews". But that would not be a reason to assume that the guy he was talking to was himself Jewish. Likewise with gays.

That article proves her right. Not wrong. It shows that in the US most folks believe that society should accept homosexuality (the US and western European countries).

I was confused about the part of them turning themselves in. Why did they do it? And they worked to which of the two governments and turned themselves in to whom?



As far as the Jewish thing I know it very well. My own family is Jewish. While my family and relatives all stayed in the Soviet Union until the 90-s, my mom has Jewish friends who moved to Israel in the 70s.

However, you have to keep in mind, that Russian government didn't just decide to release the Jews on it's own; it was a result of international pressure. And this brings me to the following question: why would there be an international pressure in regards to gays if homosexuality was considered a crime in the US too?

Yes I heard you guys saying that the public opinion in the US was more mixed than in Russia and that sometimes the anti-gay laws in the US weren't fully enforced. But the question remains: why would US government be *actively* helping people if they think they are committing a crime? And they *would* need to be *actively* helping them -- since the Soviet Union wasn't going to release anyone without a lot of foreign pressure.

So even this sentence right here implies it's more than three. Maybe you mean to say that among your friends it's 3? Well, among my friends there are 0 on each side -- simply because I don't have any friends (although I wish I did as you could see from my posts).

You know, extreme majority of people I know are cis and heterosexual, yet I know only three people who admit being anti-gay. And two of them, one of my uncles and his wife, I heard about from my mom and have never personally heard them say anything anti-gay. Sure, some might be in the closet with being anti-gay but majority, including elders, are clearly fine with it. One of my cousins is a Christian priest and he doesn't seem to have a problem with it, either.

I heard this too. But, interestingly enough, I heard that *both* about being pro-gay *and* about being anti-gay as a US thing. Maybe the real issue is that the view of French is only the business of French but the view of Americans is the whole worlds business -- simply because America acts like worlds daddy of sorts.

But I thought you just said that you were assuming that being anti-gay is just an American thing?

My point was simply that lots of straight cis people are perfectly fine with homosexuality. I am aware that people who aren't still exist as well. Here they seem to be mostly elderly and/or from the countryside (or super religious.) I've heard that that's widely a thing in the USA, too, though there are exceptions.

Or are you saying that this statement applied only to countries of European origin? So if China is anti-gay it's fine since they aren't White but if Russia is anti-gay then it's bad since they are? Well, don't you find that double standard unfair?

My opinion on Eastern Europeans -- including poles -- is that, while they hate Russians, they still have a Russian mindset. Its perfectly possible. Like I resent that my mom is so controlling yet a lot of quirks that I retain I learned from her.

As far as Finland goes I knew it was part of Russia before the 1919 but I didn't know that it was going back and forth between Russia and Sweden. Now that naturalplastic said that it was, it makes more sense why it doesn't share as much similarities with Russia culturally..

By the way Poland was also going back and forth between Russia and "something"; maybe even Germany -- at least it was torn between two sides during World War 2. Still, however, when I talk to Poles they seem to have Russian feel to them. Maybe it's just their language that is similar to Russian. But then again, similar languages is usually a sign of historic ties.

The fact that Ukraine is culturally Russian is something I know for a fact though. Just look up Kievlian Rus. That doesn't mean Russia should take the whole Ukraine -- just the fact that I admitted I am culturally like my mom doesn't mean my mom should force me to live with her -- but Russia certainly should keep Crimea since most of it's citizens are Russians not Ukrainians. But that's a different can of worms.

As far as the rest of Ukraine goes -- even though I would say no Russia shouldn't take it (nor is it trying to by the way) it's perfectly fine to acknowledge that they have a lot of similarities to Russians. And the sane goes for majority of Slavic countries and especially former USSR. Do they hate Russians? Yes. Are they culturally similar to Russians? Also yes. It's quite ironic but it's true.

If you were employed there, I can see the concern of bullying from a coworker, but, if you don't work there, you could find another restaurant to study or if someone is making you feel uncomfortable do what most women do, when a guy starts a conversation with them, look at your phone.

They probably forgot about you.....