Good question. I’ve not met many (if any at all) self hating Jews or self hating Chinese, for example. I’d imagine those are also quite cringe. Self hating Russians though, I know plenty personally. They do tend to have one thing in common - liberal ideology. Doesn’t matter the age. Young people who have never seen USSR and grew up on a steady diet of western media and propaganda (with a smattering of modern Russian media, which is also subpar). Middle aged people, who grew up in the closing years of the Union and witnessed the trauma of the collapse. Even one whose teenage years begun while Stalin was alive!
And those that don’t go down the self hating route, often veer towards coping nationalism. It’s honestly painful, seeing just how much our people have been broken.
Good question. I’ve not met many (if any at all) self hating Jews or self hating Chinese, for example. I’d imagine those are also quite cringe. Self hating Russians though, I know plenty personally. They do tend to have one thing in common - liberal ideology. Doesn’t matter the age. Young people who have never seen USSR and grew up on a steady diet of western media and propaganda (with a smattering of modern Russian media, which is also subpar). Middle aged people, who grew up in the closing years of the Union and witnessed the trauma of the collapse. Even one whose teenage years begun while Stalin was alive!
And those that don’t go down the self hating route, often veer towards coping nationalism. It’s honestly painful, seeing just how much our people have been broken.