Russians have long had racism and regionalism down to a fine art. The various ethnicities of the empire are ranked on a long chain of being with ethnic Russians placing themselves on top and (I think) Siberian Chukchis on the bottom but Chechens are the principal object of recent hatred for obvious reasons.
Also Slavic Russians rank in the regional pecking order is determined by their distance from Moscow although Moscow and St. Petersburg Russians have always been locked in bitter rivalry. We got a refresher in just how racist Russkies actually are when Cosby’s son was killed by a Ukranian immigrant in the nineties and his wife spouted off that the kid must have learned his racism in the states (this comment launched a storm of better-informed ripostes from those in the know).
Westwardho is right that people who live with a boot on their necks have an especial need to have someone else to look down on.
But you know what? Every group in the world is that way. Heck, the same ideas apply in Japan with signs on shops forbidding non-Japanese. The same caste ideas apply in India and elsewhere.
Throughout the world, everyone is playing with a full deck of cards, but Europe/England/Russians are supposed to play by rules that handicap them?
Self-preservation is more important than following some burned out hippie ideas of multi-culti utopia.
I’ve got kids and I want a bug out plan in case the US becomes too unlivable. With the leaders in DC willing to legalize all of Mexico and do their trusted traveler program, how much of a future do my kids really have in a LaRaza controlled US?