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OPINION: Does Russian 'khamstvo' differ from general rudeness?

OPINION: Does Russian ‘khamstvo’ differ from general rudeness?
Alena Repkina
There are many things, words and meanings perceived as uniquely Russian. But we have doubts if ‘khamstvo’ is one of them.
Khamstvo has long been perceived as a unique Russian phenomenon. It was even featured in our own extremely popular listicle ‘10 Russian words impossible to translate into English’.
Soviet emigre writer Sergei Dovlatov told a rumor about another famous Soviet emigre, writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his ‘This Untranslatable Khamstvo’ essay. Apparently, Nabokov struggled to define
khamstvo to his American students studying Slavic studies at Cornell university. The words ‘arrogance’, ‘rudeness’ and ‘insolence’, which he tried to use, were simply not enough to encompass the many facets of the term. Dovlatov ultimately gave his own explanation: “Khamstvo is nothing other than rudeness, arrogance and insolence multiplied by imp ....

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OPINION: Does Russian khamstvo differ from general rudeness

OPINION: Does Russian khamstvo differ from general rudeness
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