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opinionated-dick t1_j5iqnkq wrote

Football (shudder… soccer) fan from England.

My own stadium (St James Park) in Newcastle is the only U.K. club soccer stadium in the centre of the city, and it’s due a revamp due to new ownership.

Any American examples of stadiums that are located downtown but make really good use of the space around it for public square etc?

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ZurakZigil t1_j5iptdn wrote

I agree there's wealth inequality (and growing rapidly), and it has a huge play in situations like this... but ignoring "identity politics" doesn't help us solve these issues any quicker.

No one is saying it's only because white people don't like ___ people except the people that get immediately pissed when they see posts like this. It's a systematic issue, and one of the key issues is wealth disparity. But I hope you also see that's the issue. That's the entire problem. Your "solution" is also the problem. That's why they have tried to tackle identity politics...to solve the wealth inequality.

edit: Still want to clarify your first comment...definitely off the wall lol

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madrid987 t1_j5ipbeo wrote

Frankly, it was true that the Russians in Crimea were quite anti-Ukraine. The same is true of Donbas's Russians. In fact, Donbas has more ethnic ukrainians, but the Russians tried to incite them into pro-Russia. There are numerous Russian diasporas in the world, but Russians in Ukraine are particularly severe.

The Russians in Kazakhstan don't have that inclination.

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SlouchyGuy t1_j5ip896 wrote

A note - people of the same ethnicity are defined by sharing the same common cultural background or descent, so there's a huge variability among self-identifying Russians, they can't be separated from the other ethnicities by certain alleles of genes. Historically Russians were mixing up with other ethnicities that lived in regions, and also people who moved to Russia often started to call themselves "Russians" in the second or third generation, so percentages here are more cultural than anything else.

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