Category talk:Russian-Americans

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Categories for discussion This category was nominated for deletion, renaming, or merging with another category on 2007 February 8. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

The category strongly intersects with Category:Russian people in the United States but somehow different:

  1. Category:Russian-Americans is for Americans of Russian ethinic background, it probably should not include Jews, Ukrainians, etc.
  2. It also exludes Russians who did not receive American passport.
  3. On the other hand it includes people with little connection to Russian culture who probably does not qualify to be Russians in America (like Saul Bellow) but has Russian ancestors.

Should we merge the categories, make one a subcategory of the other or keep both? abakharev 03:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

No one on this list is actually Russian, all these "Russian" Americans are Jews.

  • Well, Vladimir Nabokov is certainly not a Jew but a Russian nobleman, but yes, most of the people in the category are not ethnical Russians but Askkenazi Jews (mostly Litvaks) abakharev 04:59, 24 September 2005 (UTC)