Understanding russians

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“I HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO UNDERSTOOD RUSSIANS” Grand Duke Alexandr Mihailovich

“I HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO UNDERSTOOD RUSSIANS” Grand Duke Alexandr Mihailovich

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Cultural Shock

Cultural Shock

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Honeymoon You like absolutely everything You are excited You feel special

Honeymoon

You like absolutely everything
You are excited
You feel special
You are ready to

explore and learn as much as possible
It’s great to be here!!!
(to be continued…*LOL*)
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Rejection They speak Russian here, EVERYWHERE!!! Food is not what I

Rejection

They speak Russian here, EVERYWHERE!!!
Food is not what I used to

eat back home
NO family, friends or even familiar faces
I feel tired, ALWAYS.
Inability to solve even little problems
Avoiding others, unwilling to interact, being angry or irritable
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Acceptance You are able to cope with reality You stay focused

Acceptance

You are able to cope with reality
You stay focused on the

mail goal of your trip
You realize life is different but not strange any more
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Adaptation You feel at home here Everything in this country makes

Adaptation

You feel at home here
Everything in this country makes sense now
You

realize you would like to spend here more time or to come back
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Reversed Cultural Shock All of the above experienced upon coming back home

Reversed Cultural Shock

All of the above
experienced upon coming back home

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There are two ways you can tell when a man is

There are two ways you can tell when a man is

lying. One is when he says he can drink champagne all night and not get drunk. The other is when he says he understands Russians.
Charles E. Bohlen, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow
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Stereotypes and Myths RUSSIA IS FULL OF MAFIA AND IT'S DANGEROUS

Stereotypes and Myths
RUSSIA IS FULL OF MAFIA AND IT'S DANGEROUS HERE
THERE

ARE SO MANY CATASTROPHES AND BOMBINGS!
THE ECONOMY IS DESTRUCTED AND RUSSIA IS A POOR COUNTRY WITH NO FUTURE
MANY RUSSIANS ARE RACISTS
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Stereotypes and Myths THE WINTER IS SO COLD HERE! RUSSIANS ARE

Stereotypes and Myths

THE WINTER IS SO COLD HERE!
RUSSIANS ARE DRINKING

TOO MUCH...
RUSSIANS ARE LAZY
RUSSIANS DON’T SMILE
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Different and Alike Political, educational, social systems Food Living conditions Behavior

Different and Alike

Political, educational, social systems
Food
Living conditions
Behavior and conversation styles

VALUES
Hopes, dreams

and wishes
Attitudes to the main things in our lives
We are both human and nothing human is alien to us *LOL*
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Russians and Americans You Russians and we Americans! Our countries so

Russians and Americans

You Russians and we Americans! Our countries so distant,

so unlike at first glance – such a difference in social and political conditions, and our respective methods of moral and practical development the last hundred years; - and yet in certain features, and vastest ones, so resembling each other.
Walt Whitman, Letter to a Russian