Trump supporters demand ban on H1B Visa and fewer Indians in Silicon Valley

this is the wildest comment I’ve read on HN this year by far :)

might give you serbia, maybe even hungary and russia but latin america…?! just in my small world numerous families go to latin america every year for vacations etc…

But they're exposed to the culture all the same, and are appalled by it - the same reason Italians will argue about food even when they're unaffected by what some foreigner they'll never meet eats.

Migration from Central Asia is certainly a topic in Russian discourse. Some talk about Uzbeks coming to replace them while "real" Russians die in a war, some extol the virtues of Tajiks who, unlike other lazy Russians, are willing to work in construction for pennies and under inhuman conditions. Frankly, very similar to US talk.