People in my chat are arguing (again) about whether or not Russians are White.

While it’s true that Russian civilization and culture is arguably inferior and non-Western, I currently believe that ethnic Russian individuals can be Westernized. The ultimate test for this is in measuring their capacity to assimilate into Western culture, usually when they’re born and raised within the West, without being part of a Russian community.

I think you can take Moscow out of the soul of the Muscovite, turning them into a Westerner that just happens to have Russian DNA.

Russians are White people, they’ve just lived under a system for almost a thousand years that deWesternized them. But maybe I’m being optimistic here. Hopefully there were no hard genetic consequences downstream from all those centuries of Mongol rule, Communism and Moscowvite culture.