On May 17, the World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, CNN reported. Several US citizens were at the epicenter of the outbreak, Statnews reports. According to the WHO, the current epidemic is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, one of…
I have been living in the States for a long time. Upon arrival, many things seemed unusual to me, not like ours. However, very soon I got used to it, and without some things I can't imagine my life at all. It seems that it has been like this all my life ...
They say Americans don't know how to be friends. Lies, of course. Americans can do everything that we can, and some even better. We just mean different things by friendship. We will have to start not even with how we are friends and why, but with how we arrange life. For example, mobility. We are the post-Soviet population - settled people, descendants of peasants. ...
Any education provides not only knowledge, but also skills that are then used in work and everyday life. Tatiana Vorozhko writes about this in her blog for the Voice of America. For example, studying at the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv helped me develop ...
Everyone loves to travel and learn something new, compare cultures. Also, everyone loves to find out how their homeland differs from other countries. The author of the blog “Yury Malykh | traveler "on" Yandex.Zen "decided to find out what the Americans lack, what they saw in ...
Probably everyone is curious to learn about how people are doing in other states, about the specifics of their mentality and habits. For example, it is interesting that in the United States it is extremely rare to meet someone on the street. It seems that the end of the world has come, all people ...
America is not without reason considered an ideal country for doing business. However, some of the business habits of Americans may shock immigrants from the post-Soviet space. In the same way that most Americans find the Russian manner of communication too straightforward and sometimes rude, the peculiarities of the American ...
In many couples, families or even groups, instead of using names, people often call each other different nicknames: baby doll, fish, or something more rare and funny. Not without this in the United States, writes FluentU. Often people use affectionate ...
Once my husband and I met in the store his friend, whom he had not seen for five years. And the first thing he told him about his life was the number of hours worked last week. We never found out whether he got married or ...
The US-Mexico border crossing at Lukeville, Arizona has been closed since December 4. Border Patrol (CBP) officers have been diverted to combating the thousands of migrants who have entered the area illegally. This influx occurred because some of them destroyed part of the border wall to...