I dreamed of reading Tolstoy, Pushkin and Solohov in their mother tongue so I wanted to study Russian from the 8.th grade. Studying Russian wasn’t exactly the most popular thing to do in my youth so unfortunately (?) there weren’t enough students taking the course. As a second choice I took French instead.What a different life I could have had if I had started my Russian studies back then. I would definitely never have become the Francophile I am as instead of going to Versailles, I had gone to Leningrad.
I never became the Jewish bride, but would have I had become the wife of a rich Russian oligarch? Instead of dying my hair blond, I would dye it yellow. Instead of having discreet and natural make up, I would prefer vivid blue eye shadows with eyelash extensions. I would buy my clothes in the same shops as Dolly Parton (no offense Dolly but you said yourself “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”) and I would wear an excess of gold jewellery.
I would never have become this open-minded person without prejudices.
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Do you mean to imply that typically the French are open-minded, unprejudiced people?
Endelig spekulerede jeg bare hvor tilfældigt alt her i livet er. En beslutning, som det med at læse fransk, har formet hele mit nuværende liv. Uden fransk havde jeg ikke mødt min mand, og skulle formodentlig ikke bo i dag i Danmark.
Det sidste var bare at demonstrere hvor mange fordomme jeg selv har; jeg skrev tidligere om russernes fordomme om os finner…
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