--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Anti Semitism in East Europe and Russia
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:07 AM
> How did you survive the Middle Passage?
>
> --- On Wed, 8/6/08, 123hop at comcast.net
> <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah. That's basically how my family got out of
> > Romania. But now it gets interesting.
[WS:] Now that you mentioned that .... A good way of gauging the amount of ethnic prejudice in a society is to look at everyday life behevior - the amount of social interecation, especially inter-marriages - instead of folk tales and national mythologies (oe even actions of some fringe elements.)
AFAIK, there was great deal of social interaction and intermarriages in Eastern Europe among the ethnic grouops living there - Slavs of various stripes, Jews, Tartars, Ugro-Fins, Germans, etc. Far greater than the level of social interaction between, say, Brits and the peoples they colonised (British colonists seemed to be particularly resitant to the idea of intermingling with the colonised peoples, far more so than Spanish or Portuguese colonists). Or for that matter, greater than the incidence inter-racial mariages in the US, including the, oh so enlightened, North.
Wojtek