xenophobia in russia: past and present
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XENOPHOBIA in Russia: past and present. Our team. Liza. We have to find right ways to prevent xenophobia. Ξένος + φόβος. Xenophobia is the fear or dislike of strangers and foreigners. Xenophobia may appear when we feel a threat to our cultural or material wellbeing. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
XENOPHOBIAin Russia:
past and present
Our team
Liza
We have to find right ways to
prevent xenophobia
Ξένος + φόβος
Xenophobia is the fear or dislike of strangers and foreigners.
Xenophobia may appear when we
feel a threat to our cultural or material wellbeing
We are all so different!
Russia is home for 195 ethnicities
(First coloured photos (beginning of the XX c. Proskudin – Gorsky’s collection.)
Cultural and religious differences
Misunderstanding => agression
Nika
Russia nowadays.
Russia (Kievan Rus) in 10th-12th cent.
Russia, the Mongol Empire, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 14th cent.
Russia expanding by Syberia.
Russia before annexing Syberia (khaki), Russia in 17thcent. including Syberia (all green).
Rurik, Scandinavian Prince (830?-879)
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod resembles Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.
Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
Saint Sophia in Novgorod
Castello Cforzesco & the Moscow Kremlin.
Peter I called the Great.
The Great Embassy, Holland. Russians working on shipyards.
Peter the Great in Holland.
Saint Petersburg.
Nevsky Avenue nowadays.
Kazan Cathedral in 19th cent, postcard.
Saint Catherine’s Armenian Church.
Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church (Petrikirche), 20th cent.
The Dutch Reformed Church.
The Catholic Church of Saint Catherine.
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary.
The Swedish Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina.
The Great Choral Synagogue in Saint Peterburg.
The Mosque in Saint Peterburg.
The Buddhist Temple in Saint Peterburg.
Alexandre Dumas, père
(1802-1870)
‘What a manifestation of religious tolerance!’
Essential quality to minimize xenophobia: inclusive culture
Question: what are the limits of being inclusive?
Answer: being non-destructive.
Katya
• ‘Communism’ is a political movement that believes in an economic system in which the state controls the means of producing everything on behalf of the people. It aims to create a society in which everyone is treated equally. – Oxf. Advanced Dictionary
In theory there could not be xenophobia in socialist country
because:• Life in socialism would never hold the main
factors of hatred – inequality and financial ill-being
• There wouldn’t be any religious differences
• All nations should be joined in one ‘Soviet nation’
Peace!
National friendship Fountain (VDNH. 1951-1954)
• The world revolution was absent => idea of socialist formation in one particular country appeared. It resonated with the idea of patriotism.
• Patriotism grew stronger in the years of the Second World War. Motherland was defended by everyone.
• The whole ethnicities were replaced from front-line and borderline regions.
• Manifestations of anti-Semitism showed as in the well-known in Russia “The Doctors’ plot” (1953).
At the same time the government got rid of those, whose loyalty being strongly doubted:
• The state caught some difficulties in explaining people that the political system in the Soviet Union was going the right way.
• More and more dissidents appeared; people tried to emigrate.
• People started associating on the basis of ethnic and religious strings.
• They wanted to be free and live better
• Government tried to cope with xenophobia, but it just turned in a specific way: any dangerous to the regime dissidents were cruelly broken.
• The state proposed general system of values, accepted by lots of people; many large-scale economic projects uniting so different men and women were offered.
Nikita
Territory coloured pink is now russian territory
• Migrants working.
• Unemployed people.
• “Luxury apartments” of migrants in Moscow.
• Benevolent guests of Moscow.
• Our ex-president with Islamic leaders of Central Asia.
Our president with Tartars
• School in Beslan. 334 people died, from them 186 were kids.
• Car blowed up near by metro Rizhskaya. 9 people died, 33 injured.
• Gurianova street. 307 people died.
• 41 person died. 88 got injured.
Terrorist attack on Domodedovo airport.
31 person died, 130 got injured.
Kurban-Bairam in the center of Moscow.
• No, that’s not a rush-time in Moscow. Just Kurban- Bairam.
• Muslims “having fun” on streets of Moscow.
Sonya
How to avoid xenophobia?
• The state policy.
• Personal attitudes and universal values.
The state policy.
1) The state must make better laws, which will defend the national and religious feelings of everyone, who live in this country.
2) The state must allocate money for the intercultural and interreligious dialogue: it should organize festivals, exhibitions to show the culture of other countries and peoples, the state should organize different sport competitions, it should deal with education of migrants, so that they might be able to assimilate.
3) The state should introduce quotas and regulate the flow of migrants.
Personal attitudes and universal values.
• Everyone on personal level, should study the culture of their neighbors, to understand and respect their values, because it stops being apprehensive.
• Focus on universal values.
What might be reason for you to dislike the people around you?
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Personal qualities Belong to different goups,ethnicities
The qualities that best describe the human
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Being kind and nice
Appearance
Character
Knowledge
Professi
onalism
Friendlin
ess
Intelligen
ce
Behavior
Culture
Courage
Nationali
ty
The groups, which have negative feelings.
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The homeless
Nationali
ty
Secta
rians
Addicts
Nationali
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Nationali
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Drug A
ddicts
Criminals
Nationali
ty
Officials
Youth su
bcultu
res
Nationali
ty
The group, which have positive feelings
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Nationali
ty
Adequate
people
Children
Sports
men
Intellectu
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Religious B
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The Friends
The Slavs
The Family
Artists
People,love
of work
The Students
Nationali
ty
Friendship of all nations!
CONCLUSIONS
Nika's conclusion:
Russians have always tried to get on well with their neighbours and to
respect foreigners. Russians used other peoples’ experiences.
Katya’s conclusions:
1) In the USSR the state proclaimed deliverance from all the conflicting views for building the community. That's why the state power persecuted all people dissenting from the official views.
2) At the same time the government offered people a system of common values. Many people accepted it.
3) The government concentrated all finances in their hands. There was no social inequality and unemployment. The government pushed forth some large scale projects that ought to unite people.
Sonya and Nikita said:
Nowadays in Russia displays of xenophobia are connected with migratory processes.
We are сonvinced that it's necessary to resist xenophobia!
1)The government should regulate migratory processes emphasizing the role of education and other humanitarian tasks.
2) Everyone should try to cope with xenophobia on their personal level. We have our own values and at the same time we should not be neglectful of values of our neighbours.
3) We think that there are universal values which unite the world!
THANK YOU, PEEP!
Thanks for attention!