Thread: Ник Перумов о русофобии

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

(Как будет по-русски "white guilt" ?)

there is no such phenomenon in Russia. The article about 'white guilt' in wikipedia is only in English, no other languages are present.

Originally Posted by alexsms

there is no such phenomenon in Russia. The article about 'white guilt' in wikipedia is only in English, no other languages are present.

Thank you for pointing that out! I think it's particularly interesting that there's no article about the subject in Spanish, since there are plenty of Latino/Hispanic activists in the U.S. who love to make English-speaking white people feel guilty for "stealing" California.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

The phrase "to blow sh!t up" is a classic example of the word "sh!t" being used in a completely neutral way, without any negative connotations -- in this context, it means "stuff" or "things" or "anything and everything."

I see. "Hi! How's sh!t going?"

BTW in old Hebrew there was a phrase for "anything and everything" - "good and evil".
So the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" from the Bible in fact should be translated to contemporary English as "tree of the knowledge of sh!t". And this describes well what the forbidden fruit was in fact.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Thank you for pointing that out! I think it's particularly interesting that there's no article about the subject in Spanish, since there are plenty of Latino/Hispanic activists in the U.S. who love to make English-speaking white people feel guilty for "stealing" California.

Hm... If WASPs enjoy racially specific guilt, maybe we have to make them guilty for "stealing" Alaska?