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Originally Posted by Perun
Slavs I usually have a generally positive attitude towards are:
Croats
Slovaks
Belarussians
Slavs I generally like but find some things about them annoying:
Russians
Poles
Serbs
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I'd like to know how you came to this opinion/conclusion. Have you formulated this opinion because of many personal encounters, or is this opinion influnced by politics and/or history?
The reason I ask this is because I've seen on countless occasions 'NetNutzis' claim to like the very Slavs that you do, and for some reason dislike (or find annoying) the the very same Slavs that you do as well...not that I'm suggesting that you're a Nutzi, but I find the parallel quite interesting indeed, and it makes me think that historical ties/animosities played the biggest part in your opinion, which quite frankly you could only have made from interpretation of external sources (i.e. books) and of immigrants in the States who often tend to forget their Slavic roots and who are very different from the Slavs back home.
Though this isn't a good example, I've met many German immigrants in Canada, who for the most most part have been really 'good' people. That said, I can't say the same applies when I visited Germany many times over the years-- finding many of them rude, sarcastic and self-centered for the most part. The exact opposite applies to Poles, many of whom I consider to be just as I described the Germans above, except they are usually like this once they emmigrate.