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I literally was thinking about having to do an internship at a US affiliated organization to further advance in my career.

I am a recent MA graduate from a non-American or American-related school with a marginalized citizenship on top of it (at least I have my English to earn some respect for my personality. These days I spend more time than I should looking at (dominant) Western, leftist, Russian narratives about what’s happening in Ukraine. And what amazes me is how everybody, who, as by the way, brings one or two some very, very bad consequences followed by the US sanctions across the world that were barely mentioned in the news or executed during times when the internet was not a public good that are pretty equal to what the dominant discourse today calls “war crimes”, immediately gets demonized in the English-speaking, EU/US funded environment.

The sanctions that the US threatens the world with is something you feel desperate about, once you learn about the Korean War and the following sanctions on North Korea, The Cuban Revolution followed by the sanctions, Venezuela… all other countries that suffered/ suffer because they have been sanctioned or embargoed by the US – the judge – since they don’t fit within what should be a right development or even a right existence of one state.

At the same time, I also acknowledge that my personality is self-colonized being influenced by Western hegemony for years and even now… to integrate myself into the “civilized” world. I have to or choose to stigmatize some aspects of my “other” non-western, non-English-speaking world. I still find it enjoyable in a way, isn’t it sad?

An old friend from a EU country I met overseas a few years ago in a recent chat asked me why I am not looking for PhD programs at home, why *countries I listed*. There was an obvious answer for me, a citizen from a developing country... In fairness, we have some decent Western-funded schools, but the thing is they still prefer to hire someone white, or at least with a degree earned in the West. So, what is tf point? I replied in a more polite manner.

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