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I need to apologize to people on SW (and in particularly people from the US)

It's been a few months since I was last really here, but I did make a lot of posts about "Americans" then, whatever that really means. To me it meant people who were becoming increasingly hostile towards me, and I realize that I deluded myself into feeling as though nearly everyone on SW ("the Americans") were my enemies, in one form or another. That's not true and I in part understood that much all along. Continuous post replies and DM's about how my husband should be a "real man" by enlisting into a dying army, in a losing country at war, however made me feel rage which I cannot explain to anyone who have not been in the situation of continuously being close to losing their husband for 3 years now. Not a day goes by when I don't fear that the recruiters will find him and take him, like they literally found and took every other Ukrainian man I've ever known, by now – yet these people WANT this fear to come true? I know logically that they do not understand what they are saying, but I wasn't able to keep up with this slander emotionally, and spewed hate towards anything and anyone American, in return. At this time I can still not understand the lack of empathy it must take, to believe that a person should give up their one and only life, to end up in a deserted mass-grave, remembered by no-one, or burned to a crisp as if they never existed. I hope I never understand that line of thinking, because I find it outrageously distrusting. Regardless, I think that I owe the many wonderful, interesting, intelligent Americans on SW, an apology. I hope that you are able to understand my intentions, and not paint me racist. I have always found great meaning in meeting people from different cultures online – myself being multicultural – and I hope to continue finding positive meaning in exploring the world, even when through a screen like on SW. I would still love to visit America one day, that won't change with everything happening today, and I hope the American people will still welcome me. I sincerely apologize for the times when my posts were generalizing and demeaning. I want everyone to know that I have never truly felt in such a way about America, nor any other culture.
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I truly don't understand it, but when it comes to politics, ESPECIALLY politics online, and maybe even more so with Americans , at least I haven't seen it as much from other countries, but people's brains turn off and it's all emotional attack mode.


I promise you, that the majority of Americans are against Putin. Maybe not for Ukraine, but they're certainly against Putin.

I'm sorry that you're family and your country have had to go through this, and personal, I thought other countries should have stepped in to help, after Ukraine stalemated them, then especially after Ukraine started to push them back...

If other countries had stepped up, I believe this war would of already been over.

Positive thoughts and prayers is all I can offer. 🙏
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@sstronaut You are such a sweet person, I love your sweet message, and you are are so right that other countries – European countries – should have got in then and there! (=
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Nightwings · 31-35, F
@Elessar .-.
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@Elessar True, but I've also seen it in real like...

It's like when politics comes up, all they see is red and go into attack mode, with no political debate or reasoning, but more of a game of one up markship and you win of you make the other person feel horrible...

Basically they mentally at war... or have some sort of political PTSD, almost like the opinion "News" stations have hypnotized them or something
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@sstronaut Yeah the thing is that many times for me, politics didn't come up, I was just writing about stuff going on in my life and certain types of people felt that it was political, which in turn made them feel like they had an excuse to completely dehumanize both me and the experiences I wrote about.