Emigrants from the post-Soviet space are often accustomed to believing that volunteering, or, as they say in the West, volunteering, implies pure altruism and special self-sacrifice. However, in the United States, the attitude towards free work is somewhat different. Volunteering here can be a necessary attribute of a professional internship or ...

Russian political scientist and journalist Georgy Bovt shared his impressions of America with Gazeta.ru several years ago. ForumDaily decided to remember this text and publishes its text with abbreviations. Many of my friends have never been to America. And some in response...

The adme.ru edition publishes the Kimberlynn Boyes blog. The author is known for often telling users what life in exile usually looks like. Here are 10 things that inevitably change when you move to live abroad. We publish in the first person. 1. You are constantly learning a new language. And forget the old one ...

Although many people think of big cities like New York, Chicago or Los Angeles when they hear the word “USA,” the vast majority of the country’s residents live in what is known as single-story America. Therefore, the author of the blog “Elena in America” on Yandex.Zen decided to tell what it’s like to live in a “dormitory” town for 15...

Our people always don't like something. Where the Australians or French clap their tongues with delight, ours grimace and grimace. Either the cities are too flat for them, now everything is too regulated, now it is tasteless, and when there are no arguments, it becomes very expensive, writes Alexey Gavrilyuk in ...

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 ...

I managed to live 2,5 years in New York, half a year in Boston and a month in San Francisco, traveled exactly half of the states and visited a hundred cities - of course, a huge amount of impressions accumulated. I'll make a reservation right away, I haven't lived a day with my compatriots, but I stayed in thirty airbnb locations, so I met and became friends ...

On her channel “Queen in the USA” on Yandex.Zen, a Russian-speaking immigrant talked about how she had to save during the first year after moving to the United States. Next - from the first person. The first year is the most difficult. The hardest thing was morally:...

“I’ll tell you about ten reasons that really piss me off about the USA and the American way of life,” writes the author of the America Inside blog on Yandex.Zen. Next - from the first person. Reason #1. People in the USA are simply incredibly skeletal, not flexible, and under-instructed. They live according to instructions...

Every country has its own stereotypes - both good and bad. As residents of one of the largest countries in the world, Americans can boast of a whole series of myths and misconceptions that exist about them in other parts of the world. Some people think that the residents...