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its funny to me how americans are so out of touch with slavic cultures it feels like fiction to them and its all so one dimensional. they will google translate something and put the cirillic on their art for da look. make an alcoholic rowdy russian oc named vanya/boris/whatever
americans treat those traits like rowdy, alcoholic and uneducated like a fun fictional thing thats in some vacuum space but its fucking painfully real especially to people like me who lived my whole life in such environment of unhappy poor desperate slavs.
idk man it rubs me the wrong way to treat something that mirrors real life powerless people who never had any chances and dignity in life as a sexy/fun(ny)/weird quirky thing
i am an extremely poor person who grew up with my undeducated poor physical worker parents who treated me badly because of their lack of education. i grew up without toys doing manual field work tending to crops, my only toys were sticks and things i crafted myself.
(ofc im from an area thats as rural as it gets) i dont have education myself, i havent even finished high school. i dont have health care. my whole family struggles with addiction including myself. my best friends from usa help me get through life financially. its all painful
speaking of that if you are american and ever donated to me i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. its very hard to live for me and i appreciate your good heart, empathy and understanding. thank you very much for you support, i love you. im glad i got to talk abt this.
ppl are always in awe how i can make anything myself. i can sew clothes. i can do leatherwork. i can make furniture. i can fix everything, i can make something from nothing. the truth is that it came from necessity, i would never have anything if i didnt make it myself since ever
so if you are an american thank you for reading this, please dont forget that slav isnt just a fun aesthetic and please think when you make a slavic character and give them traits that mirror real life effects of misery of real poor slavic people
and to be clear of course you can make a slavic oc who has been through this hell and has those traits but please dont treat it as a fun quirky thing... thats what i see in peoples ocs a lot and it really breaks my heart
