ATDDTA(10) A Screaming Comes Across The Creek [294-295]

[Ya Sam]

    The Finn humor does come up over and over (unlike
>the Japanese) and it's directed toward them as a group,  not as individual 
>characterizations of stereotypes (Oscar Wilde/ N & N).

"that uniquely snot-nosed British anti-Semitism" p. 227 is pretty much 
directed towards the Brits as a group.

>I can't remember the Russian humor - was there a whole lot of it?


"Kit had begun to notice Russians in the Weenderstraße. Yashmeen was 
convinced they were in town to spy on her. They were trying to blend in, but 
certain telltale nuances - fur hats, huge unkempt beards, a tendency in the 
street to drop and begin dancing the kazatsky to music only they could hear 
- kept giving them away." 595

Fur hats, beards and kazachok. If he had added a balalaika, caviar and 
Gypsies with a tame bear that would have been complete.

"... and crossed the Caucasus where Russians stood out in front of dukhans 
to watch them go by, raising their vodka glasses amiably."  751

Oh, yes, Russians drinking vodka, what else were they supposed to be doing?

"The hired musicians - rabab, hand drums, and gharawnay, or Chinese flute - 
had learned Kalinka" and "Ochi Chorniya," ...

Yes, these two melodies. Russians don't play anything else.

"A Russian will shop his mother for a glass of vodka" 829

Of course he will!

Not to mention Misha and Grisha, a nice translocated version of Nigel and 
Nevil.

I think it is enough.

As for the Japanese, to the best of my memory the photographing is the only 
such episode but it is very emphatic.

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