"Kadyrovtsy" in the trend. Why did the man in the street stop being afraid of Caucasians and when he gets scared again
Dear readers! For half a year, our country has got rid of the misfortune that has been tormenting it - the crimes of immigrants from the republics of Central Asia and immigrants from the Caucasus. Feral Uzbeks and Kyrgyz do not kill and rob, wild mountaineers do not rape and extort, no one dances a lezginka in the squares and does not terrorize the inhabitants of megalopolises and its suburbs. Dear readers! For half a year, our country has got rid of the misfortune that has been tormenting it - the crimes of immigrants from the republics of Central Asia and immigrants from the Caucasus. Feral Uzbeks and Kyrgyz do not kill and rob, wild mountaineers do not rape or extort, no one dances a lezginka in the squares and does not terrorize the inhabitants of megalopolises and its suburbs.
Well, or at least, blogs and forums are silent about this.
Why and why the public, yesterday cursing the Chechens, Ossetians and other “blacks”, today puts them in a excited way “likes” - it is very interesting to make out.
The mass consumer of information has a short memory, but I still remind you - last year most of us were sure that the main threat to the national security of Russia is migrants. From the blogs and media headlines of that period, it followed that we were at war with the newcomers, and we were merging this war ineptly. "Putin has merged the country to migrants" - this is from that time, if you forgot. Think of a series of scandals: “a popular gathering against Caucasians in Pugachevo,” “Biryulyovsky pogrom”, “an anti-Caucasian gathering in Arzamas” and much more. Any, even the most timid mention of the fact that the same Caucasians are actually our compatriots and the social problems connected with them are similar in the same way to the rest of society, provoked a furious indignation and rejection. In the trend were and stories that "the Chechens are cowards and can only throw in a bunch on one, and ours beat them in all wars."
Honestly, if I had lived in a hermit for a year, and now I looked into the same blogosphere, I would not have believed my eyes. Here, the Ossetians ignite the lezginka, and the Russian viewer does not minus, but with delight distributes likes and approving comments:
If by inertia someone now thought that they were Ossetians, and not Chechens / Dagestanis / Ingushs, etc., then I will remind you that recently the public gave a popular arrogant excuse for such clarifications: “In varieties of ... I do not understand. "
However, today it is also applauding to the Chechens, and Ramzan Kadyrov (or his account, which is not important) has become one of the main generators of patriotic memes and retweets.
... Such a lightning and cardinal change of image should have a fundamental basis. For example, a significant decrease in the crime rate among the groups described above or the almost complete elimination of labor migration as a phenomenon. Alas, we do not observe this. If you do not trust the statistics, try to google at the request “killed a migrant” and you will understand that if you want, there will be reasons for “people's gatherings” now - however, there is no desire for “gatherings”. There was no radical reduction in the number of illegal migrants or outflow of visitors in general. That is, the real situation for the year / six months has not changed significantly.
One would assume that the Caucasians who so irritated us all went to the Donbass at once and broke the course of the war there, which caused a change in their image. However, we have no data on the national composition of the militias, and there is no reliable information about the contribution of people from the North Caucasian republics to the overall success on the fronts of the Ukrainian war.
All that we have is two myths, one of which has defeated the other today. The fallen - that Russia loses in the "war with blacks", and the winner - that they "win the war for Russia."
This does not mean that volunteers from the Caucasus do not fight bravely in Ukraine. Surely they are fighting. And Ramzan Kadyrov really does more for Russia than all the “sofa patriots” put together. Nor does it mean that some of their representatives suddenly stopped violating the law and annoy the society: it’s hard to imagine that representatives of the “major Caucasian youth” sent to the capital for a better life suddenly rushed to fight in the ranks of the militia instead of the usual shooting at weddings. I repeat: neither Caucasians, nor Central Asians did not become less, they did not become different, they still possess the same pretty and annoying qualities of their national characters. It is just that the scale of both of them in the public’s views does not correspond to the real ones.
Now about why one myth suddenly overshadowed another. There is an opinion that if a person is hit with a hammer on a finger, then he will no longer feel the itch from mosquito bites that irritated him before. This is how our perception is arranged: we cannot be afraid and hate everything, but we are looking for the most actual, as it seems to us, threat.
If we dig in the archives, we find that according to the results of the VCIOM poll in July 2013, Russians considered migrants as the main threat to national security (35%). This, of course, contributed to the existing at that time information background. Exactly the same survey a year later showed that we were less afraid of migrants (27%). But the fear of military conflicts with the closest neighbors for the year grew from 10% right up to 23%. Which again corresponds to the existing information background today.
Does all this mean that Caucasus-phobia will never return to us? Does not mean. As soon as the Ukrainian issues lose their urgency, we will begin to fear and hate visitors again. And only two circumstances can prevent this: either by that time someone will frighten us even more, or the problem of migrants, visitors and illegal immigrants will be solved in reality, and not just go into the shadows.
Well, or at least, blogs and forums are silent about this.
Why and why the public, yesterday cursing the Chechens, Ossetians and other “blacks”, today puts them in a excited way “likes” - it is very interesting to make out.
The mass consumer of information has a short memory, but I still remind you - last year most of us were sure that the main threat to the national security of Russia is migrants. From the blogs and media headlines of that period, it followed that we were at war with the newcomers, and we were merging this war ineptly. "Putin has merged the country to migrants" - this is from that time, if you forgot. Think of a series of scandals: “a popular gathering against Caucasians in Pugachevo,” “Biryulyovsky pogrom”, “an anti-Caucasian gathering in Arzamas” and much more. Any, even the most timid mention of the fact that the same Caucasians are actually our compatriots and the social problems connected with them are similar in the same way to the rest of society, provoked a furious indignation and rejection. In the trend were and stories that "the Chechens are cowards and can only throw in a bunch on one, and ours beat them in all wars."
Honestly, if I had lived in a hermit for a year, and now I looked into the same blogosphere, I would not have believed my eyes. Here, the Ossetians ignite the lezginka, and the Russian viewer does not minus, but with delight distributes likes and approving comments:
If by inertia someone now thought that they were Ossetians, and not Chechens / Dagestanis / Ingushs, etc., then I will remind you that recently the public gave a popular arrogant excuse for such clarifications: “In varieties of ... I do not understand. "
However, today it is also applauding to the Chechens, and Ramzan Kadyrov (or his account, which is not important) has become one of the main generators of patriotic memes and retweets.
... Such a lightning and cardinal change of image should have a fundamental basis. For example, a significant decrease in the crime rate among the groups described above or the almost complete elimination of labor migration as a phenomenon. Alas, we do not observe this. If you do not trust the statistics, try to google at the request “killed a migrant” and you will understand that if you want, there will be reasons for “people's gatherings” now - however, there is no desire for “gatherings”. There was no radical reduction in the number of illegal migrants or outflow of visitors in general. That is, the real situation for the year / six months has not changed significantly.
One would assume that the Caucasians who so irritated us all went to the Donbass at once and broke the course of the war there, which caused a change in their image. However, we have no data on the national composition of the militias, and there is no reliable information about the contribution of people from the North Caucasian republics to the overall success on the fronts of the Ukrainian war.
All that we have is two myths, one of which has defeated the other today. The fallen - that Russia loses in the "war with blacks", and the winner - that they "win the war for Russia."
This does not mean that volunteers from the Caucasus do not fight bravely in Ukraine. Surely they are fighting. And Ramzan Kadyrov really does more for Russia than all the “sofa patriots” put together. Nor does it mean that some of their representatives suddenly stopped violating the law and annoy the society: it’s hard to imagine that representatives of the “major Caucasian youth” sent to the capital for a better life suddenly rushed to fight in the ranks of the militia instead of the usual shooting at weddings. I repeat: neither Caucasians, nor Central Asians did not become less, they did not become different, they still possess the same pretty and annoying qualities of their national characters. It is just that the scale of both of them in the public’s views does not correspond to the real ones.
Now about why one myth suddenly overshadowed another. There is an opinion that if a person is hit with a hammer on a finger, then he will no longer feel the itch from mosquito bites that irritated him before. This is how our perception is arranged: we cannot be afraid and hate everything, but we are looking for the most actual, as it seems to us, threat.
If we dig in the archives, we find that according to the results of the VCIOM poll in July 2013, Russians considered migrants as the main threat to national security (35%). This, of course, contributed to the existing at that time information background. Exactly the same survey a year later showed that we were less afraid of migrants (27%). But the fear of military conflicts with the closest neighbors for the year grew from 10% right up to 23%. Which again corresponds to the existing information background today.
Does all this mean that Caucasus-phobia will never return to us? Does not mean. As soon as the Ukrainian issues lose their urgency, we will begin to fear and hate visitors again. And only two circumstances can prevent this: either by that time someone will frighten us even more, or the problem of migrants, visitors and illegal immigrants will be solved in reality, and not just go into the shadows.
- Yevgeny Super
- http://www.odnako.org/blogs/kadirovci-v-trende-pochemu-obivatel-perestal-boyatsya-kavkazcev-i-kogda-ispugaetsya-vnov/
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