Comments on: Eurovision – Verka Serduchka http://blog.gomilko.com/2007/05/13/eurovision-verka-serduchka Andrew Gomilko's Blog Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:58:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://blog.gomilko.com/2007/05/13/eurovision-verka-serduchka/comment-page-1#comment-44 Andrew Wed, 16 May 2007 07:54:28 +0000 http://blog.gomilko.com/2007/05/13/eurovision-verka-serduchka/#comment-44 I completely agree. Furthermore, this is a contest of neighbors. Balkan division proved it. Yesterday I found some valuable articles on this problem: http://www.telekritika.kiev.ua/articles/130/0/9170/eurovision_horbyk/ http://www.telekritika.kiev.ua/articles/176/0/9180/hrabovsky_verka/ http://www.proza.com.ua/culture/in_verka_we_trust.shtml I completely agree. Furthermore, this is a contest of neighbors. Balkan division proved it. Yesterday I found some valuable articles on this problem:
http://www.telekritika.kiev.ua/articles/130/0/9170/eurovision_horbyk/
http://www.telekritika.kiev.ua/articles/176/0/9180/hrabovsky_verka/
http://www.proza.com.ua/culture/in_verka_we_trust.shtml

]]> By: Denis Drapoi http://blog.gomilko.com/2007/05/13/eurovision-verka-serduchka/comment-page-1#comment-43 Denis Drapoi Wed, 16 May 2007 07:45:36 +0000 http://blog.gomilko.com/2007/05/13/eurovision-verka-serduchka/#comment-43 Eurovision has nothing common with culture. It's a contest of diasporas. Every year Cyprus votes for Greece, Portugal for Ukraine, Germany for Turkey, Turkey for Armenia, Belarus for Russia etc. The more people a country loses as emigrants, the more countries vote for it. The harder a diaspora is oppressed somewhere (armenians in Turkey or russians in Estonia), the more votes it gives to its native country. And so on. Those people do not think at all about the quality of contender. It's just global demography. Eurovision has nothing common with culture. It’s a contest of diasporas.

Every year Cyprus votes for Greece, Portugal for Ukraine, Germany for Turkey, Turkey for Armenia, Belarus for Russia etc. The more people a country loses as emigrants, the more countries vote for it. The harder a diaspora is oppressed somewhere (armenians in Turkey or russians in Estonia), the more votes it gives to its native country. And so on. Those people do not think at all about the quality of contender.

It’s just global demography.

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