Discussing racial attacks with students and help finding information on the 'piataia grafa'

[Marina Antic]

I must point out that the phenomenon of "standing by and watching" is a 
well documented sociological phenomenon and has very little to do with 
Russia or Russianness.  It is the effect of the diffusion of individual 
responsibility in the presence of others.  Let's not associate it with 
anything particularly Russian for just as "attacks happen all over the 
world" so does the phenomenon of "standing by and watching."

Marina Antic
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Renee Stillings | Alinga wrote:
> Amanda brings up something that has bothered me most about Russian 
> society and its values. It is the standing by and watching attacks 
> that any decent human, which I believe most Russians consider 
> themselves to be, would normally step in and do something about. 
> Attacks happen all over the world; in an advanced society that likes 
> to think of itself as very educated an enlightened, this complete lack 
> of concern for the fellow citizen is appalling. 

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