Absolutely fantastic!
Via Cousin Bill
Who could have thought that in 2012 young people in Moscow would put on a "flash mob", dancing to an 83 year old American song written by a Russian born American/Jew (Irving Berlin) whose last name is the capital of Germany?:)
Wonderful, wonderful video.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why people say Russians have expressionless faces. I've never found them so.
I notice a certain "element" missing from the crowd.No wonder they`re all smiling and having a good time!. They don`t have to drag the dead weight around that we do.Make`s a good case for expatriation,with us all gone who would feed the"Poor downtrodden minority?.
ReplyDeleteThey don`t have to drag the dead weight around that we do.
ReplyDeleteI had similar thoughts.
What a great way to start the day ! Fantastic. :)
ReplyDeleteOk, since this has come up, little story for you. A few years ago, I went on a trip to Ukraine with one of the "romance tour" agencies - the ones whose business is introducing American men to Slav women (who, incidentally, are every bit as stunning in person as they seem in photos, and who are also very quick to discriminate between "man who can be squeezed for money" and "man who is worth my time"). In this case it was a group thing - 20 or so guys from varying walks of life, typical Americans mostly. One black guy, a truck driver. Smart enough, polite, personable - not a bad fellow for a neighbor. At one point, he asks our guide: "Now, listen, I've been looking around, and there's just something I can't figure out. Where are all the black people? I mean, I've been looking, and looking, and I haven't seen any black people! Where are they?"
ReplyDeleteGuy literally could not understand that in Ukraine, THERE ARE NO BLACK PEOPLE.
(Well, not entirely. In the times I've been there, I've seen a grand total of two - two guys walking together, wearing cyrillic-lettered hoodies, heads down, avoiding the people around them.)
This is something you'll see with "inner city" school classes - if shown photos of places where there aren't black people, it's by definition a racist conspiracy, because everyone knows black people are everywhere except when suppressed.
The guide's answer started off with "Oh, we're not racist in Ukraine" and then went off into irrelevant long-winded tangents that somehow satisfied our truck driver. Judging by some of the things I have heard and seen, that first part was entirely false.
"Oh, we're not racist in Ukraine" and then went off into irrelevant long-winded tangents that somehow satisfied our truck driver. Judging by some of the things I have heard and seen, that first part was entirely false.
ReplyDeleteFortunately the race card is getting old. Reminds me of HK, the black Confederate activist, who answered a question about his friend Kirk Lyons after something was made of the fact that he had a lily white family and had been married in the Aryan church thusly: "What's wrong with a man wanting his offspring to look like him?"