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It's not really, and even if it is that doesn't change the fact that when seeing someone like that I can draw some instant conclusions. Even off of your "non-serious" point you kind of go along with what I'm trying to say by saying that white ones are usually desperate and overcompensate when trying to go into this culture. 
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Eh, different places. Word might mean something different over there. Don't have much to add here that wouldn't be repeating myself.

[quote=@Andreyich]
Lynn, Vanhanen, Kanazawa with books like the Ten Thousand year explosion. It's also pretty evident when you just look at who emerged with farming and nomadic rather than hunter-gatherer societies first. 
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Something that goes through that book you mentioned.

http://azure.org.il/include/print.php?id=522

[quote=@Andreyich]
That doesn't change the fact that we can't really speak up and the books/studies published by this side are proverbially lynched from the get-go and half the time there aren't even publishers willing to distribute them on the grounds it's raycis. It's not hard to be right when you confiscate all of the other side's shit. 
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Well it doesn't happen here, yay free speech. (Though people will try.) But I understand that other places don't have that and people in this country don't know how good they have it.

[quote=@Andreyich]
Your loss. I've been taught to be a calculating and paranoid bugger from day 1 which has served me well.
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Everyone in my life kept telling me I was paranoid, right before/after they sticked a knife in my back. And in hindsight I'm pretty sure I've been being gaslighted for a decade and half. <.< 

Sure, I suppose being optimistic, hasn't helped me much in my life. But if I ever was actually paranoid, I don't think it would of actually benefited me. <.<

But that's neither here, or there. 

[quote=@Andreyich]
I mean, I did it in part because I get tired of pushing aside the claims. If people want to bitch and whine and push these buzzwords at me then so be it, I've had it happen too much to give a shit. 
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#HowTrumpWon

[quote=@Andreyich]
This is also more likely to do with culture preference and models, if one is over-exposed to a single cultural group - especially if it is usually designed for older/more mature people to be emulated - they will most likely come to resent it and find relief in another somewhat "rebellious" one. 
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Like every atheist teen that has Catholic parents. (Though them seeming to have a fetish for people going to hell. So frankly I don't blame them.) And guilt tripping people like that is precisely why I/my family no longer went to church. <.<

But in all seriousness. I don't think rebellion had much to do with it. Mostly me just learning, there's good and bad everywhere. I never tried to change myself on purpose. I got into parts of other cultures, books, music, art etc. But didn't ever stop me from enjoying my own.

[quote=@Andreyich]
From my country to faith, it kind of sucks being irrelevant/unheard of. 

Old Believers are pretty much the only Orthodox Christian branch/sub-group that isn't some unheard of cult or syncretism. It happened when a few hundred years ago there were differences in rite between Imperial Russian as well other Church Slavonic texts of all sorts and the Greek ones used outside of Eastern Europe. The Emperor wanted to close the differences between the Greeks and his subjects/diaspora so he ordered everyone to switch to the Greek way which was supposedly right and the Eastern European one was attributed to failures in translation and just overall differences appearing over time as is supposedly natural. Some people stayed with the old Rite and the Emperor issued a repression on them, thus many fleeing to either the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth where they couldn't pursue (Belarus being in the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth at the time) or to live with the Cossacks which were free of most Russian laws. 

Of course, later research vindicated us since it actually came to prove that we had rite based on Older Greek texts from Constantinople and such that the Greeks did not have, thus proving us, more or less objectively right. So thus came the name, "Old Believers." Reconciled means that we've accepted the Apology of the mainstream Orthodox Church but keep on with our rite. 
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Okay then. Glad to learn about something. I literally just watched like a 2 hour debate of religion last night, so I sort of had it on the brain at the time.