I have been living with my family for several years in the USA, and we also celebrate the New Year here in the States. Americans celebrate this holiday quite differently from us. If you don’t meet the coming year in New York or on the main square of one of ...

Something I have a nostalgic mood today, and I decided to recall what mistakes we made when we arrived in the USA. Nothing illegal, the difference in our habits with local practices and the erroneous idea of ​​local realities simply affected. What is the difference in mentality? ...

Ask for a pen or pencil - what could be easier! We taught this at school: “Give me a pen (pencil)” (Give me a pen (a pencil) please). Using the example of this simple phrase, I want to show how sometimes academic differs from real one. ...

Everyone is afraid of something, but there are fears that are shared by entire nations or by the majority of the country's population. In her blog for Yandex.Zen, Alexandra Ukrainko told what the Americans are most afraid of. Next - from the first person. To some, America seems like a fabulous country, to someone ...

America is a rich country, and there are quite a lot of benefits for the average American: almost everyone has some kind of housing, and most likely a house, the house has all the necessary equipment and, of course, a car. But what to do to a person with an income below the average, for example, ...

Despite the fact that I have been living in the States for a long time, not a day goes by that I do not learn something new, interesting or unusual about this country, Alexandra Ukrainko writes in his blog Between New York and Boston. ForumDaily is posting ...

Beliefs and signs have deeply penetrated our culture. They learn about them even in childhood, when grandmothers, mothers and teachers in kindergarten tell children what can and cannot be done, referring to “bad omen” or “so accepted”. Signs and beliefs ...

A cozy green lawn house has long been a generally accepted standard that almost all Americans aspire to. But as the medal has two sides, so the ownership of the house has its pros and cons. What are the owners of the houses ...

I caught myself on the fact that I can often accurately identify my compatriots in the American supermarket. I thought it might be a call of blood or a sixth sense, but then I thought it was probably more prosaic, and decided to analyze how I do it. ...

You all probably heard about the excellent service in the stores of America. About how employees are always smiling, ready to come to the rescue and make everything so that you return to the store again. My bottom neighbor, Joseph, over the years 7 has managed to work in ...