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“Celebrating obnoxious ignorance” is probably the best way to put it.
The United States is a country where you get dirty looks for trying to pronounce a foreign word correctly. Hell, insisting on saying it wrong is just proof that the other language doesn’t matter.
Never recommend a book to an American. In our culture, it is the gravest of insults.
Racism is fluid, and in times like this, US and UK media likes to try and spin Russians as asiatic barbarians. They invoke tropes associated with the Mongol empire and call Russians “orcs”. This goes back as early as the nineteenth century when the British and Russian empires were in an intense rivalry over control of central Asia.