I didn’t enlist nowhere, just grew up in the debris of the USSR, surrounded by the artifacts of the World War Two and pretty much figuring many things on my own and taking - unthinkable by the US standards - risks since age six. Everything that Sebastian Junger spelled out in his interview, is a common knowledge for most ex Soviet immigr…
I didn’t enlist nowhere, just grew up in the debris of the USSR, surrounded by the artifacts of the World War Two and pretty much figuring many things on my own and taking - unthinkable by the US standards - risks since age six. Everything that Sebastian Junger spelled out in his interview, is a common knowledge for most ex Soviet immigrants. It also leads to many answers for the current situation in that part of the world right now.
I also couldn’t help thinking how Eugene Hutz, the lead singer of the gypsy rock NY based band, Gogol Bordello who was an immigrant from Ukraine, eventually left US for Brazil… He is from the same place and year as Sergei Brin. The main line of Hutz famous hit “Immigraniada” is: “we’re coming rougher every time” … Well, I think I know why that spirited man ended up leaving the US… and joining a more Apachi-like environment 🤔 . If you watch “Immigraniada” on YouTube, you ll know too. 😉 I keep wondering, who is now more free and better off, Hutz or Brin? Hopefully, both found what they were looking for.
Now with the US born kids i am puzzled, how to raise them and am suffocating in the safeteism . Where do I go to give them the necessary level of “figuring it out on their own and risk taking? Which “Brazil” should I take them to? I cant stand an idea or raising wimpy kids.
Last month I watched “Stand By Me” a 1984 US film about a group of teen boys in rural Oregon who headed out to find a dead body of another teen. We watched it twice with my kids, who are 11 and 12. Highly recommend.
I didn’t enlist nowhere, just grew up in the debris of the USSR, surrounded by the artifacts of the World War Two and pretty much figuring many things on my own and taking - unthinkable by the US standards - risks since age six. Everything that Sebastian Junger spelled out in his interview, is a common knowledge for most ex Soviet immigrants. It also leads to many answers for the current situation in that part of the world right now.
I also couldn’t help thinking how Eugene Hutz, the lead singer of the gypsy rock NY based band, Gogol Bordello who was an immigrant from Ukraine, eventually left US for Brazil… He is from the same place and year as Sergei Brin. The main line of Hutz famous hit “Immigraniada” is: “we’re coming rougher every time” … Well, I think I know why that spirited man ended up leaving the US… and joining a more Apachi-like environment 🤔 . If you watch “Immigraniada” on YouTube, you ll know too. 😉 I keep wondering, who is now more free and better off, Hutz or Brin? Hopefully, both found what they were looking for.
Now with the US born kids i am puzzled, how to raise them and am suffocating in the safeteism . Where do I go to give them the necessary level of “figuring it out on their own and risk taking? Which “Brazil” should I take them to? I cant stand an idea or raising wimpy kids.
Last month I watched “Stand By Me” a 1984 US film about a group of teen boys in rural Oregon who headed out to find a dead body of another teen. We watched it twice with my kids, who are 11 and 12. Highly recommend.