why does international entertainment industry potray Russians as smart, savvy, skilled, calculated people while depicting Poles as stupid, clumsy and goofy? any game I play or series I watch the most brilliant scientists or tough gangsters, leaders are always Russians while Poles usually are junkies or irrelevant to the plot goofy side-characters. I've seen this in Sopranos, I've seen this in Pusher, Gta San Andreas, Gta 4, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid and many more. Can anyone explain to me this phenomenon?
>>222745354Life imitates art (or the other way round in this case)
>>222745354Is my MSc good enough or do i need a phd to count as smart?
Ruzzia has the evil villain image due to cold warPoland is Poland
>>222745397Even Serbia is better portrayed in entertainment than us (gta 4) despite being much smaller country and geopolitically less relevant
>>222745354That's American media. They see us a evil incompetent competitors and write you like the way you said maybe based on early migrations of Poles to their country, seeing you more like rednecks.
>>222745354Because Poles are retarded white niggers and Russians are the only slavmonkeys that have ever accomplished anything of note, despite also being slavmonkey subhumans
>>222745354Oh the resentiment, its palpable!
>>222745354Haven't noticed it, but sure gonna change now if it's true. Also, screw >>222745387.
>>222745354All media internationally is controlled by Serbians, few know this.
>>222745354Because Russians are le evil communists and the USSR still exists. The older generations still act like it’s the Cold War
>>222745354Russia is the only proper Warsaw Pact nation that accomplished anything.
>>222745493>They see us a evil incompetent competitorsPerhaps, however their exemplification of you is much more respectable than the one of us. Evil scientist / gangster looks better than an irrelevant trash.>>222745604Poles are rarely mentioned in games or series / movies, but when they are they're always put in a bad light but not in Russia's sense, they're mostly depicted as bottom of the barrel, underachieved druggies or stupid asslickers (Eddie Pulaski in Gta SA) or that homeless guy in the first episode of Dexter Morgan series.
>>222745354It's old cold war stereotypes. These will change with time and soon you'll notice 90s/00s migrant stereotypes instead.
>>222745471gta 4 was made bc at that time russia was about to join nato
>>222745387>>222745604It's mostly centuries of bad PR, coupled with modern spambots from Russia and India that we can't contain due to their ridiculously high population and resourceswhen it comes to actual hard data and scientific studies, Poles have, on average, higher IQ than Russians or other Eastern Europeans, which is extremely apparent when you look at figures such as Fryderyk Chopin, Maria Skłodowska, or Ignacy Łukasiewiczanyways, in current day everyone knows about Witcher and Cyberpunk but nobody knows about... I can't even think of a single russian cultural product
what changed?
It's historical Russia culture mostly, I mean objectively there is a lot even if your russian peasant is stupid. Hollyweird and leftists also have this long standing conspiracy of the russian mafia or vor v zakone this stereotype runs deep even if you didnt see it mentioned in movies. I remember as a kid yeah russians were kinda scary with domestic propaganda... they were the greatest enemy and most formidabble it seemed after ww2
