Quote: (09-06-2012 12:55 AM)booshala Wrote:
Thanks for the tips, choche. You're right, I noticed Latinas are much more open to Asian guys than just about any other Racial group save Asians themselves. But Belarus, huh? Never heard of the girls being ok with Asians, but I always wanted to go to "the last dictatorship in Europe" and I have more than a million frequent flyer miles in my travel bank... ![[Image: smile.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/smile.gif)
I do know that Russian girls tend to have a negative reaction towards Koreans, after we started immigrating there after the 1940's. Most people don't know, but Kim Jong Il's birth name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim (born in Siberia).
I must respectively disagree with you when you say that "Russian girls tend to have a negative reaction towards Koreans". In the US, having a last name like Tsoi/Choi marks you as a beta nerd and more recently, a potential pyscho-killer. In Russia, a girl would be more likely to ask if a Tsoi is related to the famous Viktor Tsoi - a Korean-Russian rocker whose early death gave him the fame of John Lennon. So much so that the über babe Oksana Akinshina - this girl
http://www.kinomania.ru/stars/o/oksana_a...5755.shtml - starred in a movie called Sisters (Syostry or Сестры) which is a 83 minute tribute to Tsoi - this from the late Sergey Bodrov Jr., who is otherwise known for directing Russian nationalist themed movies filled with anti-Caucasian stereotypes. Anyway, Koreans in particular, if anything are stereotyped as very creative musically.
As for other stereotypes: in the movie A Woman in Berlin, an Asian of unknown ethnic origin from the Russian Far East, is stereotyped as the strong, silent type - a real man compared to the often drunken Russians around him. In others (Gruz 200, Tochka for example), the Vietnamese are portrayed as the only moral characters in a sea of Slavic corruption.
As far as I can tell, there is no Russian cinematic negative stereotypes of East Asians ala Sixteen Candles or Fargo.
Negative stereotypes of Asians in Russia exist mostly for Central Asians, often stereotyped as gastarbeiter (German, both singular and plural, literally meaning guest-worker). A good example would be the characters Ravshan and Dzhamshut, from Nasha Russia.
Having said that, there is a tendency for women from the likes of Moscow to stereotype the Chinese as overrunning Russia. I have not encountered this, however, in the Ukraine or Belarus.