re: #79 SanFranciscoZionist

No.

This is the part that Americans generally run into trouble with—we grew up in a nation in which there is no connection between ethnicity and nation, even historically.

A person can live in Russia, have Russian citizenship, but not be an ethnic Russian, because they are, instead, Georgian or Armenian, or Ukrainian, or Vietnamese or what have you.

I know a lot of couples where he’s Russian, and she’s Jewish, or vice versa. Both born in Russia, both have had family living there for generations, and speak Russian as their first language.