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

[Renee Stillings | Alinga]

Would not the general attitude towards individual responsibility (its the 
state's problem ...) that is so notorious in Russia also lead to more 
"standing by and watching" than would be in cultures where there has been 
historically more individual responsibility?


>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

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