You may laugh but one place I have seen this on the ground? Research about online dating and visa marriages over the last decade. There is marked uptick in white western men AND women desiring former Soviet country partners because they are “traditional”.
https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1496886564265373703
(This doesn’t matter at all.) I remember seeing a presentation on this about six years ago. I logged on to some of the discussion boards to follow up. It was like a Trump rally but before Trump. A lot of reverence for Russian leaders as a cultural pinnacle.
It was clearly about race. And once Trump was elected, there was a lot of reflection about Melania as an avatar, with her ethnic origin as a white credential. (Again, none of this matters. It just came to mind.)
For me it was an example of how contemporary Russian myth making was in very basic everyday white American cultural spaces. I still don’t know what to make of it all. But I do know that “oooh Russia” doesn’t sound un-American to as many people as one might assume
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