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What is the eastern European perspective on offensive jokes against one's ethnicity, said by someone not of that ethnicity?
First thing to consider: some parts of more-eastern-than-Germany Europe prefer the term "central", so to avoid association with those more to the east. Not that it matters, but I thought it might be interesting to you, might (or might not) shed some additional light on what I will say later. Second: I can't speak for everyone, you would probably like to ask Weaver for additional information.
As for the third, I've had an interesting observation back on TVT. You know there's a couple of Russia and Eastern Europe-related threads in TVT's On-Topic subforum, right? So, for some time there've been actual Russian folks (and some wannabe pricks too) in there, bringing with them a very Russian point of view. (Funnily enough, our good old friend Beholderess found in herself entire layers of nationalist zeal that she would be first to deny mere year or two ago.) These folks spent plenty of electrons on describing how there's a part of Russian society that we would call liberal middle class, and they would call self-hating pseudointellectual dicks, and that this crowd has a perverse pleasure in decrying Russian vices, criticizing Russian society, so on and so forth in a pathetic attempt to prove to themselves they are "modern" and "Western".
So, why am I bringing this up.
Around here, what these posters said is a lot like right-wing rhetoric. You know, "ebul liberals want us to feel ashamed of being [insert nationality/ethnicity]!", that sort of stuff. I wonder if they realize that, what with nationalist rightwinger types being the kind of people they try not to present themselves as, but enough of the digression. In other words, the kind of folks you talk to impacts the reaction you get. Someone who is already distanced from the "patriotic" (for lack of a better word; I'd like to stress that I use it as a neutral term, not as a sarcastic one) discourse most assuredly wouldn't mind it in any case, the others - would probably take some offence. Some, as in ranging from "yeah, smartarse" to "HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE MOTHERLAND YOU LITERALLY A NAZI". (That is, of course, assuming this isn't friendly ribbing. I kind of assumed you ask me about the situation along the lines of a foreigner telling nasty jokes to other foreigners, without overt bad will, but also with an overt lack of good will towards the butt of the joke.) The people who treat that sort of stuff too seriously end up being butt of the joke to most of the remaining populace, but that does not mean said rest of the populace does not mind it at all.
tl;dr version: generally on the negative side.
I'm an undergrad TA, which is apparently far more common on my campus than most places.
I was an undergrad TA too.
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Oh c'mon. (The story of the mayor is no better, while I'm at it.)