
Mila Kunis Tells Off Reporter in Fluent Russian: Impressed?
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Russian reporters at this week's Moscow press junket for "Friends With Benefits" must have known Mila Kunis could speak Russian. Finding that out is as simple as skimming her Wikipedia page.
What they didn't account for was her chutzpah (just don't ask Michele Bachmann how to pronounce that).
Kunis took a Moscow reporter by surprise when she began responding directly to her questions in fluent Russian, and it's clear from Kunis' demeanor she's not thrilled with the reporter's question.
According to Gawker, the reporter was asking why her "Friends With Benefits" co-star Justin Timberlake had decided to pursue acting instead of continuing his successful music career.
Timberlake, hindered by a delayed translation from his earpiece, sat back smirked as Kunis took over.
Her response, in English, went something like, "Why movies? Why not? What kind of question is that? Why are you here?"
Some essential background on the "Black Swan" star: Kunis and her family moved to the States from the Russian-speaking Ukrainian SSR in 1991, when she was 7 years old, due to anti-Semitic sentiments prevalent in the area. They had to win two separate lotteries to get permission to leave the country for the U.S., and the process took five years.
It wasn't long before she started getting walk-on guest spots in television shows like "Baywatch" and "7th Heaven," and in 1998 she landed her career-making role as Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show" with Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace.
But she never forgot her roots, or her mother tongue.
All we can say is, you go girl!
What they didn't account for was her chutzpah (just don't ask Michele Bachmann how to pronounce that).
Kunis took a Moscow reporter by surprise when she began responding directly to her questions in fluent Russian, and it's clear from Kunis' demeanor she's not thrilled with the reporter's question.
According to Gawker, the reporter was asking why her "Friends With Benefits" co-star Justin Timberlake had decided to pursue acting instead of continuing his successful music career.
Timberlake, hindered by a delayed translation from his earpiece, sat back smirked as Kunis took over.
Her response, in English, went something like, "Why movies? Why not? What kind of question is that? Why are you here?"
Some essential background on the "Black Swan" star: Kunis and her family moved to the States from the Russian-speaking Ukrainian SSR in 1991, when she was 7 years old, due to anti-Semitic sentiments prevalent in the area. They had to win two separate lotteries to get permission to leave the country for the U.S., and the process took five years.
It wasn't long before she started getting walk-on guest spots in television shows like "Baywatch" and "7th Heaven," and in 1998 she landed her career-making role as Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show" with Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace.
But she never forgot her roots, or her mother tongue.
All we can say is, you go girl!
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Какие красивые женщины.
I have quite a few acquaintances who left Romania for the U.S. and they still speak Romanian perfectly a good 20 years afterwards.
I guess if you must find something impressive about Mila Kunis's mastery of her own mother tongue, you can find it impressive that she is not one of those people who pretend to have forgotten it (i.e. snobs). Otherwise, there really is nothing impressive about it. It's all natural.
"Kunis and her family moved to the States from the Russian-speaking Ukrainian SSR in 1991, when she was 7 years old, due to anti-Semitic sentiments prevalent in the area."
Slavic people are usually Indo-European people who speak Slavic languages. I think you need to distinguish between race and nationality. Not at all the same thing.
Also, we distinguish between nationality and citizenship. People who became part of the Soviet Union still had a right to mantain their nationality, even if they were now part of the USSR. One could be a citizen of the USSR and be of Ukrainian nationality.
"The word citizenship is often used in a different sense from nationality. The most common distinguishing feature of citizenship is that citizens have the right to participate in the political life of the state, such as by voting or standing for election. The term national can include both citizens and non-citizens." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Semitic race belongs to the Mediterranian group of the Southern branch of the Europeoid race.
Slavic people are: 1. Easten Slavs: Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians
2. Western Slaves: Poles, Czechs, Slovacs
3. Southern Slavs: Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians
The Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics: Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Gruzia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
All the people of the USSR were citizens of the USSR. Each person had his/her passport from the day when the person turned 16. In each person's passport there were several lines that had to be filled: 1.Name; 2.Date of birth; 3.Place of birth; 4. Nationality.
Nationality was the feature which, as I said, is called Race here in the US. A person was Russian if his/her parents were Russians. A person was Jewish if his/her parents were Jewish. A person was Armenian if his/her pa...
The Semitic race belongs to the Mediterranian group of the Southern branch of the Europeoid race.
Slavic people are: 1. Easten Slavs: Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians
2. Western Slaves: Poles, Czechs, Slovacs
3. Southern Slavs: Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians
The Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics: Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Gruzia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
All the people of the USSR were citizens of the USSR. Each person had his/her passport from the day when the person turned 16. In each person's passport there were several lines that had to be filled: 1.Name; 2.Date of birth; 3.Place of birth; 4. Nationality.
Nationality was the feature which, as I said, is called Race here in the US. A person was Russian if his/her parents were Russians. A person was Jewish if his/her parents were Jewish. A person was Armenian if his/her parents were Armenians. And so on.
It didn't matter at all where he/she was born, or where he/she lived. For example, my friend was German. That was written in his passport. He was born in Russia, has never been in Germany, and German was to him as foreign language as it was to me. However, he WAS German because his parents were Germans. Similarly, a person who has never been in Armenia and couldn't speak the Armenian language, still would be an Armenian, if his/her parents were Armenians. And so on.
And all this had nothing to do with religion. The people of the USSR in their vast majority were atheists. If somebody was a religious person, it was his/her private issue, and it wasn't recorded neither in his/her passport, nor in any other documents.
Judaism spread throughout the whole world, encompassing people of many ethnic groups. It was a religion before VERY modern times, when it began to be perceived as an ethnicity. Specifically, "In the 1980s, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Jews are a race, at least for purposes of certain anti-discrimination laws." http://www.jewfaq.org/judaism...
The fact that you enumerate Slavic peoples does not mean that they are a race in itself. They are called Slavic based on their language. They are actually of the same race as Germanic peoples.
This is why I call them different nationalities and not "races" (I take race to mean "sub-Saharan Africans, Caucasians, Greater Asians, Australopapuans and Amerindians" as this guy lists them here http://www.goodrumj.com/RFaqH... ), because it seems to me your usage of this term is prone to falsely create divisions between peop...
Judaism spread throughout the whole world, encompassing people of many ethnic groups. It was a religion before VERY modern times, when it began to be perceived as an ethnicity. Specifically, "In the 1980s, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Jews are a race, at least for purposes of certain anti-discrimination laws." http://www.jewfaq.org/judaism...
The fact that you enumerate Slavic peoples does not mean that they are a race in itself. They are called Slavic based on their language. They are actually of the same race as Germanic peoples.
This is why I call them different nationalities and not "races" (I take race to mean "sub-Saharan Africans, Caucasians, Greater Asians, Australopapuans and Amerindians" as this guy lists them here http://www.goodrumj.com/RFaqH... ), because it seems to me your usage of this term is prone to falsely create divisions between people who in reality share a race. In reality, the divisions are of ethnicity.
Also, as I said, you need to differentiate between citizenship and nationality. None of the things you said refutes any of the things I said.
Also, while the official propaganda during the USSR was indeed atheistic, that does not mean that "The people of the USSR in their vast majority were atheists."
Romania was also communist for a long time. The official propaganda was that people were supposed to be atheistic. That does not in any way mean that in reality they were. Not even close. Most people were still calling themselves Orthodox Christians and still went to church and held Christian beliefs.
There is a Semitic race, as I've pointed out to you. You can read about it, but you don't want to.
There are Semitic languages as well.
"Judaism as a religion spread to a lot of ethnicities throughout the years." Judaism has NEVER spread to "a lot of ethnicities". The Jewish people have migrated to many countries throughout the years, NOT the religion of Judaism. In the countries of Europe and Middle East the Jewish people lived separately from the natives of those countries. There were no intermarriages, as they were banned by both Judaism and Christianity/ Islam.
"Judaism was the first religion to actively seek converts"
Judaism NEVER sought converts, and doesn't seek converts today. This is a very important feature distinguishing Judaism from Christianity and Islam. Again, you can read about it, but you probably will not.
"Judaism spread throughout the whole world, encompassing people of many ethnic groups."
I've already addressed this as a pure fiction.
"The fact that you enumerate Slavic peoples does not mean that they are a race in itself. They are called Slavic based on their language."
Again, you are talking about something you know nothing about.
Each of the Slavic peoples has its own language. O...
There is a Semitic race, as I've pointed out to you. You can read about it, but you don't want to.
There are Semitic languages as well.
"Judaism as a religion spread to a lot of ethnicities throughout the years." Judaism has NEVER spread to "a lot of ethnicities". The Jewish people have migrated to many countries throughout the years, NOT the religion of Judaism. In the countries of Europe and Middle East the Jewish people lived separately from the natives of those countries. There were no intermarriages, as they were banned by both Judaism and Christianity/ Islam.
"Judaism was the first religion to actively seek converts"
Judaism NEVER sought converts, and doesn't seek converts today. This is a very important feature distinguishing Judaism from Christianity and Islam. Again, you can read about it, but you probably will not.
"Judaism spread throughout the whole world, encompassing people of many ethnic groups."
I've already addressed this as a pure fiction.
"The fact that you enumerate Slavic peoples does not mean that they are a race in itself. They are called Slavic based on their language."
Again, you are talking about something you know nothing about.
Each of the Slavic peoples has its own language. One of them (Russian) is my native language. The Ukranian language has similarities with the Russian to the extent that I can understand if not all, most of what has been said in the Ukrainian. Polish is much less close to the Russian. When I listen to the Polish speech, I pick up only a few words sometimes. Not more than that.
"In reality, the divisions are of ethnicity."
This term is in use in America. In the USSR there was the term "Nationality", not "Ethnicity".
"Also, as I said, you need to differentiate between citizenship and nationality."
I don't need to differentiate. Instead, you may need to learn. I'm telling you about the USSR, where you haven't ever been, and where I lived for most of my life. But I guess you don't want to learn.
"Also, while the official propaganda during the USSR was indeed atheistic, that does not mean that "The people of the USSR in their vast majority were atheists." "Most people were still calling themselves Orthodox Christians and still went to church and held Christian beliefs."
Once again, you are talking about something you know nothing about.
It seems to me you are making a lot of assertions, mainly telling me to read about it and that I am uninformed, yet you never tell me where exactly to read about it to inform myself. Perhaps you would like to learn that there are indeed many authors who talk about early Judaic proselytism. Here, in this document, there is almost an entire page filled with these authors' books. http://johndickson.org/files/...
Perhaps you should read them.
Here is some modern-day proselytism: http://bejewish.org/?page_id=48
"Each of the Slavic peoples has its own language." Yeah, I never said that they don't. The point was that the divisions are of language and not of race.
"Race" I've already explained to you. If you don't want to learn, your problem, but stop acting like you know.
Ethnicity and nationality are not the same thing. Please inform yourself on that. But I guess you don't want to read and inform yourself.
I love how in the last paragraph you attempt such an obvious manipulation: you take what I said about ROMANIA and paste it in the context of what I said about the USSR.
"Most people were still calling themselves Orthodox Christians and still went to church and he...
It seems to me you are making a lot of assertions, mainly telling me to read about it and that I am uninformed, yet you never tell me where exactly to read about it to inform myself. Perhaps you would like to learn that there are indeed many authors who talk about early Judaic proselytism. Here, in this document, there is almost an entire page filled with these authors' books. http://johndickson.org/files/...
Perhaps you should read them.
Here is some modern-day proselytism: http://bejewish.org/?page_id=48
"Each of the Slavic peoples has its own language." Yeah, I never said that they don't. The point was that the divisions are of language and not of race.
"Race" I've already explained to you. If you don't want to learn, your problem, but stop acting like you know.
Ethnicity and nationality are not the same thing. Please inform yourself on that. But I guess you don't want to read and inform yourself.
I love how in the last paragraph you attempt such an obvious manipulation: you take what I said about ROMANIA and paste it in the context of what I said about the USSR.
"Most people were still calling themselves Orthodox Christians and still went to church and held Christian beliefs." in ROMANIA, during the Communist period. Please do not tell me I know nothing about this, because now we are talking about MY country and its recent history, which I DO know and much better than you.
Anyway, this is what I have to say, I stand by these things which you have not refuted (not even close), by choosing to instead deny it without proof and tell me to inform myself. I suggest that you start to inform yourself, too. Maybe next time we will both be a little bit more informed and this can only benefit us both.
As far as I'm concerned, you have only made this last post to troll, since you bring NOTHING to the discussion, so I'd say let's stop here and give it a rest. Neither of us is budging. Not to mention that we are both waaaaaay off-topic and discussing this in a very trivial context of a Hollywood actress who does something apparently incredibly impressive, i.e. speak her own native tongue.