Putin’s Plot to Get Texas to Secede

[Razgovory]

And that's the thing the Russians don't understand.  Texans aren't an Ethnic group.  They are simply Americans who live in the state of Texas.  Russia is made up of various people's conquered by the Muscovites.  American territory is sparsely populated land that was settled by either people of one culture or small groups of people other cultures who aspired to be part of the larger American culture.  The closest analogy would be either Guam or Puerto Rico leaving the US which would be met with indifference.  At best it might have a temporary outrage like the US handover of the Panama Canal.

[Eddie Teach]

Texans have a better claim to being an ethnic group than Albertans.

[Razgovory]

But less then Louisianans or Hawaiians.

[Valmy]

Putin would be ok with that response.

[jimmy olsen]

or Hawaiians.

What proportion of the population is native these days? Aren't the largest ethnic groups Filipinos,  Japanese and assorted whites in that order?

[Admiral Yi]

Hawaiians might be #1 by total mass.

[citizen k]

I don't think it's ethnic so much as cultural. It's a Texas state of mind.

[Caliga]

Putin would be ok with that response.

Make sure you do it all barechested, though, and commit the murders with either poison umbrella tips, judo throws, or while riding a horse or shark.

[Caliga]

I don't think it's ethnic so much as cultural. It's a Texas state of mind.

I know a lot of Texans and I've heard them joke about being a Texan before an American, but none of it is ever serious.  It's the same with Confederate stuff down here... people joke about it and damn Yankees, but nobody is ever serious about any of that shit.

[DGuller]

Russians in general have an incredibly difficult time not viewing US through their own distorted prism.  They truly don't get it, even the KGB men whose job it is to rationally size up a potentially enemy and understand it.

[Razgovory]

I remember reading that KGB had perhaps the best intelligence gathering operation in the world, but one of the worst analyzing capabilities.  They were constantly looking for real decision making body in the US unable to to believe that Congress actually did pass the laws in the US.  Eventually they decided that the Masons controlled the US, functioning like communist Party did in the Soviet Union.

[viper37]

I mean nobody would have a problem for me not being cool with my wife cheating on me but they might have a problem with me killing her lover and his entire extended family, his friends, his business associates, and all his followers on twitter in response.

in some part of the world, it would be considered an extremely measured response.

[viper37]

I don't think it's ethnic so much as cultural. It's a Texas state of mind.

I know a lot of Texans and I've heard them joke about being a Texan before an American, but none of it is ever serious.  It's the same with Confederate stuff down here... people joke about it and damn Yankees, but nobody is ever serious about any of that shit.

there could also be a simpler difference. People are proud of being Texans, they may even consider themselves Texans first and will resist any covert plot of the Federal government to take over their lands (and guns) by staging military exercise in their State , but, at the end of the day, they're just equally proud to be Americans.

[Tonitrus]

In fact, Texans will probably tell you that they are the most important Americans. 

[Razgovory]