Russian diaspora in USA

I live in chicago and we have quite a few russian people here and Ive had positive experiences with them.I wanted to know what do russian people feel about those who immigrate to USA
Isnt a big russian diaspora in USA useful to russia as a country ? esp when it comes to lobbying and determining foreign policy

Also is there some kind of a pan slavic society of immigrants in USA ? encompassing russian ukranian polish etc
a place where they can put aside their "old country" rivalries and bitterness

For every person there will be a different reason to leave a country... whether it is for money or better weather or to escape from a situation, or the future of their family.

Many will have a chip on their shoulder regarding where they came from and a desire to integrate by continuing local stereotypes...

GarryB wrote:For every person there will be a different reason to leave a country... whether it is for money or better weather or to escape from a situation, or the future of their family.

Many will have a chip on their shoulder regarding where they came from and a desire to integrate by continuing local stereotypes...

unfortunately here in midwest US russians are hated just as much as muslims

people here are SO POORLY educated about world history its pathetic

I know for Germany that we have a great russian/soviet diaspora. Most of them are "ethnis germans" living in Russia for hundreds of years and coming back in the 90ies due to better economic situation in Germany.

And really most of them are loving Russia and the most have good memories from soviet time. At paper they are germans, but most of them are more Russian    Most germans view "russian germans" and Russia positive, but thanks to mainstream media Russia has a bad touch again in the last years.

In USA most Russians (immigrating from 90ies to now) are elite...scientist, manager, artists etc. It's not easy for Russians to immigrate to USA. Problem in USA are stereotypic views, not in urban areas but at countryside. Russians are in Hollywood always evil, bad communists etc.

Stupid!

http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-moms-flock-miami-give-birth-score-us-passports-chain-migration/ri22167

Karl Haushofer wrote:Stupid!

http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-moms-flock-miami-give-birth-score-us-passports-chain-migration/ri22167

Well, a 100 every year with 30% of them being same customers as before isn't a lot. Then again, we don't even know the validity of the report.

And anyway, you will find stupid people from everywhere. No point worrying about it.

This is a completely irrelevant issue, as Anatoly Karlin demonstrates:
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/the-colony-of-russian-ppl-especially-in-nyc-nobodies-talking/

https://www.stalkerzone.org/a-message-to-russian-expats-living-in-the-us/

Interesting article on the western values and the return of russian expats in their home country.

I am an Italian expat living in northern Europe, and I am actually thinking about something like that, maybe in the next 5 years.

My Russian is definitely way too rusty (about a A2 level in the european framework) to work in a Russian company, but if there were in the future good opportunities in some foreign companies in one of the larger cities (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, or even Sochi etc), I would definitely consider it.

I have not properly lived in Russia yet, just stayed there a couple of times for a few weeks (and only in Moscow), but from what I saw and experienced it is much less "foreign" for me than living in the US or UK.

Furthermore I felt more freedom about speaking my mind while in Moscow. In the west you can lose your job if you do that on some "sensible" topics (even in Germany: it is very difficult to fire an employee with a permanent contract for not working good enough, but you can be fired for saying something that is against the new rules of political correctness...)


The main problem would be possibly the really cold winters for a south european (but they are not worse than in Montreal, and many Europeans adapt easily there).

Maybe I just need to wait for Russia to finally free Constantinople

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:https://www.stalkerzone.org/a-message-to-russian-expats-living-in-the-us/

Interesting article on the western values and the return of russian expats in their home country.

I am an Italian expat living in northern Europe, and I am actually thinking about something like that, maybe in the next 5 years.

My Russian is definitely way too rusty (about a A2 level in the european framework) to work in a Russian company, but if there were in the future good opportunities in some foreign companies in one of the larger cities (Moscow, Saint Petersburg,  Kazan, or even Sochi etc), I would definitely consider it.

I have not properly lived in Russia yet, just stayed there a couple of times for a few weeks (and only in Moscow), but from what I saw and experienced it is much less "foreign" for me than living in the US or UK.

Furthermore I felt more freedom about speaking my mind while in Moscow. In the west you can lose your job if you do that on some "sensible" topics (even in Germany: it is very difficult to fire an employee with a permanent contract for not working good enough, but you can be fired for saying something that is against the new rules of political correctness...)


The main problem would be possibly the really cold winters for a south european (but they are not worse than in Montreal, and many Europeans adapt easily there).

Maybe I just need to wait for Russia to finally free Constantinople

There's Sochi, Simferopol, Sevastopol.