I want to tell you why sometimes Americans seem to me not just people with a different mentality and upbringing, but beings from another planet. What is there - from another universe! 1. In striving to be politically correct, Americans sometimes go to the point of absurdity. They are so worried ...

Usually, arriving in a new country for us, we concentrate our attention on what we ourselves seem to be unusual in someone else's lifestyle, habits and customs. 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 a Funtik pig from a Soviet cartoon - in a good mood and with a caramel on my cheek. This is not because I have a lot of money there, alas. I have other reasons for this. ...

What if you decide to go to New York, you have little money, but you want to see the maximum without spending the night in the park and not starving? Today I'm going to show you how to get 100% satisfaction with just $ 100 a day. New York,…

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 ...