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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • See, this is why I tried to say that it was only one person’s opinion, one I found interesting. I never meant for it to mean that I thought the invasion was justified, or that one person’s opinion should invalidate all the other opinions or statistics out there.

    Anyway, this person came to the US to go to college and decided to stay. She married an American, and she was a US citizen long before the invasion of Crimea. She is ethnically Russian, and she still has family in Russia. She was in favor of the Russian invasion of Crimea because of that.

    I can’t really speak too much more about her feelings because it isn’t a topic I discuss with her very often.


  • Complete tangent, and obviously only a single case, but I know a woman originally from Crimea (now lives in the US) whose family is ethnically Russian, and she was happy when Russia invaded Crimea because she always felt Russian and never felt Ukranian. Anyway, just a single anecdote which does not necessarily reflect my feelings on the matter.












  • History teacher here. If this was turned in to me, rhe first thing I’d do is laugh, then have a conversation with the student. If s/he says they’d be ok with me emailing a copy of this to their parents (I’m assuming the parents speak Chinese), then I’d just give them an A for pure gall. If the kid isn’t from a Chinese-speaking family, I’d probably still give him/her kudos and then make them turn in whatever they put into Google translate to begin with. But really, this is the kind of malicious compliance I wish my students had the creativity to pull off.