When the 24-year-old Carnegie Mellon University graduate student told his parents he planned to go to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol to serve as a translator for a Pittsburgh-based documentary film crew, they advised him against it. Though Mariupol is far from Crimea, its large Russian-speaking population has been outspoken in its support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"You don't know what you're getting into," he recalled his father telling him. "They don't like Americans there."
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My first thought: Holy crap! And then I kept reading. I find it strange that these Ukrainian civilians would take it out on people that were clearly not involved with any kind of military. I know there is a lot of anti-USA feelings going around, but it still seems kind of silly to attack people that have to say in what things happen. For goodness' sake, they were there to make a documentary about how great one of the orphanages in Ukraine is; that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to get violent. I know, I know, anger makes people unable to think clearly, but you should still be able to discern between whether or not your actions will actually help something change.
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