What the Kyrgyz think of Americans, Russians and Chinese

Every great nation has a certain sense of its exclusivity and greatness, feels itself a civilizer. Most often, large nations do not care what other nations think about them. But nonetheless, rare reflexive representatives of great nations have curiosity about what foreign people thinks about Americans, Chinese and Russian in a small country, not in terms of territory, but in the population, in market, in GDP.

Let's see what citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic think about Russians: Kyrgyz people have a proverb “if you are friend with a Russian, keep always Labrys on your belt”. This philosophy of the people subjected to colonization and civilizational influence of the Russian people for over 100 years. And if we take the entire history of relations with the Yenisei ancestors of the Kyrgyz, then it turns out that the interaction is almost 300 years old. And for the last 100 years, the Tien Shan Kyrgyz have experienced a lot of grief from the Russians, but at the same time they have received a certain amount of benefits. Today, people think: Russia is the most steep country, that it is very large because on the school map of geography Russia occupies almost one-fifth of the total area of ​​the map, if not more. Russian weapons are sung in legends. Kalashnikov is a brand. The Makarov gun is the ultimate dream of anyone who wants to have a weapon. Russian vodka is still considered a steep drink and the general population drinks Russian vodka. The Kyrgyz are ordinary, the majority of the country's population say: "Russia is cool, Putin is a good man, he has a special plan, the whole world respects Putin, we would have a leader like Putin." But when they say they want to say about a man that he fought off tradition, they say - Russified. To expose a young girl in a dissolute way of life they say - she has become Russian. When they see a talented engineer who can gather something from nothing, they say golden hands like a Russian. When they talk about education, about an educated person, they say smart as Russian. In the older generation, the word "Russian" and "kafr" are synonyms. Very few people believe that the Russians harm the country by the fact that they are abducting sovereignty, harming the economy through forcing them to join the Eurasian Economic Union. Most people believe that without Russia they can not live. For a while people wanted to become part of Russia. But recently people are changing their minds.

What do people think about Chinese: Kyrgyz people think that there are a lot of Chinese, and that they are very dangerous. Such words as: "Do not let our girls get married to the Chinese otherwise they will give birth to Chinese, and then the Chinese will come and be able to populate our whole earth." They will win us very much without a fight "often. It is negative if Kyrgyz girls marry Chinese. Very much admire the Chinese success. They say that the Chinese are good people, they practically conquered the whole world with their goods and their production. Here they say you need to learn from the Chinese. Everyone says - "we will someday learn Chinese, because this time will come, the Chinese will be everywhere." All very negative attitude towards the fact that the Chinese came to work with us, they say that the Chinese just in one day can populate all of our land. Very strongly respect the Chinese, they say because same as Chinese does not work anybody. They are surprised that the Chinese people dine right at work, they think the Chinese are very hardworking. "To work like a Chinaman" practically means to work without lifting your head all day, even at night, and so all seven days a week. Often, "many Chinese do not feel sorry for them," when they say that officials in China are being punished for corruption. They say - "here we would like in China to execute officials for corruption." "Unfortunately, our officials can not be executed because there are not enough of us, and the Chinese are billion, so do not feel sorry for them." However, the old people, when they advise young people to do something sensible, are advised to learn Chinese.

What do the Kyrgyz think about Americans: Almost every American who has come to our country is considered a spy. We have a very strong influence on Russian television, that's why for all Americans, all Europeans, British, our people's perception is like for agents 007, James Bonds, spies shorter. The West for the majority of people in the Kyrgyz Republic seems to be a territory of unconventional sexual orientation filled with homosexuals without morality. In the view of our people America is ruled by the Committee of 300, or Golden Billion, or a group of Jewish elders. The conspiracy theory immediately climbs into the head. In the countryside people say America is Masons, and the whole world is ruled by Freemasons. Until now, if an American comes to the village, he causes genuine interest, of course with him simple people will behave very friendly, but just in case will watch him. The older generation considers the Americans very greedy heartless cruel. Young people and the urban population respect Americans very much and say America is a great power, a great country, it creates all the innovations. Nevertheless, all our people so that he does not speak adheres to democracy. If necessary - the people go to the revolution and defend democracy. Here we have an ambiguous interesting curious people, with its own set of stereotypes about Russian Chinese and Americans.