I want to tell you why sometimes Americans seem to me not just people with a different mentality and upbringing, but creatures from another planet. What is it - from another universe! 1. In their desire to be politically correct, Americans sometimes reach the point of absurdity. They are so concerned...

Usually, when arriving in a country that is new to us, we focus our attention on what seems unusual to us in someone else’s lifestyle, habits and morals. But the clash of two cultures is always a mutual process, and for the locals we too...

Immigrants who have moved to the United States often support the American way of life, but not all of them consider themselves to be Americans. The majority continue to call themselves Serbs, Indians, Poles, Spaniards, Frenchmen and retain their national - pre-immigration - traditions and everyday habits. Nationality or citizenship? ...

Living in a foreign country is like accelerated training with daily exams. At first it is difficult, and then you yourself wonder how much I learned and understood in a relatively short time. Today I will tell you what I learned in America. 1.…

In the United States, I was often surprised that some of the details of Hollywood films, which previously seemed to me an eccentric directorial technique, a mistake by filmmakers, or simply an obvious exaggeration, turned out to be taken directly from life. Everyday American Life. The cult of sports The plots of many youth films are based on ...

  I always leave American banks like the pig Funtik from the Soviet cartoon - in a good mood and with caramel on my cheek. This is not because I have a lot of money lying there, alas. I have other reasons for this.…

What to do if you decide to go to New York, you have little money, but you want to see the maximum and at the same time not spend the night in the park and not starve? Today I will tell you how to get 100% pleasure by spending only $100 a day. NY,…

Moving to another country, we gain a new circle of friends, invaluable experience and a chance to start life from scratch. However, at the same time we lose something, first of all, of course, illusion. But these losses are not always worth regret. Today I will tell you ...

Sometimes, observing Americans, you notice that some of their habits and life circumstances are ridiculously, and sometimes painfully similar to ours. Or maybe it's just common to all mankind? While I was living in Russia, I often heard it on one occasion, then ...