litwin wrote:Moscow empire has an elaborate culture of the so-called “ponty”— slang for a system of symbols and behavioral patterns that telegraph status.
- nytimes
A lot of Russians vacationing in Mexico. I have seen them everywhere. And a lot of them really love it here. Especially the fruit.
But, if they think that South Americans and Latin Americans are going to sign up for building dams in Siberia for some lousy rubles? Think again. Chileans make fairly high incomes. Many Mexicans can make more money in their own country than some lousy salary from Moscow. So let them dream on about getting some Latin American cannon fodder. It is not going to work.
Hondurans are going to try to go to Miami, Los Angeles, NYC, or something. And they will be working bad jobs in those big cities. They will save their pennies and then buy cheap homes in rural parts of the East Coast. Going to Siberia is not their cup of tea. When they stabilize they will go back to Tegucigalpa (the capital of Honduras) with cash to set up some business. Buy a plot of land and build a lot of rooms for the entire family to live in and retire. I used to work with Central Americans for years. They are all into building huge houses in the countryside for their entire family to have nice rooms, tiled stuff and bathrooms and a bunch of tropical trees and washing machines and conveniences. They buy a Toyota pickup truck and open some corner store in the little town and forget about the shit going down in the USA. Grabbed the cash with three jobs in the USA from the age of 20-40, sold the house for a profit, and then ran back home and lived it up.
That is the plan for the Latin Americans if they are smart. If they are stupid they spend all their money, drink alcohol get divorced, and then wind up in jail because they never learned the differences between the societies with lots of money for law enforcement and some cash-strapped badly run government with little resources.
The Central Americans if you get to know them well are just about the kindest, sweetest, most humble, and hard-working nice people on planet Earth. Very religious and very family-oriented. And very giving. I do not remember how many meals they did for me for free. They are just about the most fun people on the planet.
They like parties and dancing and having fun. And they are exciting. Very tightly knit families.
They will hate being far from home. It is easier to go and flee to the States. Not Russia. Russia is not even on their radar.