Let's compare the traditions of foreign residents, with our native traditions.
Despite the Internet and free access to any information, including someone else's culture, foreigners visiting our country are not quite ready for some things that they consider to be savagery and atavism.
Familiar things for us that foreigners consider wildness
- Great bewilderment among foreign guests can cause birch juice, offered by him to quench their thirst. In the west per person, a large fine can pull off the fruits or branches. They follow the rule: "Everything that grows in the forest is everything for animals." Therefore, the fact that wood here can be used at its discretion and even eat, is completely unthinkable for a Western person.
- Do not try to offer a foreigner herring, he will only decide that you do not really respect him. And all because herring in the West is considered to be weeded fish, suitable except for animal feeding.
- Buckwheat will cause him the same rejection. Residents of Western countries do not respect delicious buckwheat and sincerely consider it a bitter and smelling chemicals, which they already cause surprise in our country, so loving and appreciating healthy porridge.
- Another of our habit, which shocks a foreigner, is feast. It is customary for us to set a huge table, set it up with all kinds of food with drinks, sit countless people for it and drink, drink, drink without stopping, seizing alcohol with appetizers. This is completely wild according to the Western guest, its gastronomic culture does not allow you to eat and take alcoholic beverages at the same time.
- If a foreign tourist comes to a visit from your guest, he can be extremely shocking that you yourself can not only diagnose without visiting a doctor, but also buy drugs without a prescription and even cure.
- What else will be incomprehensible to your foreign guest is our signs and beliefs. For example, sit on the path, step on the threshold, when you pass something on the other side of the door, don't care through the left shoulder at the sight of a black cat, look at yourself in the mirror, if you return for a forgotten thing and much more. The expression “bad sign” will not tell a foreigner about anything and make him look at you as a cave.
- By inviting a person from another country to visit him, be prepared for the fact that they have there is no habit of taking off shoes. For him, it will be completely logical to go into the house in shoes and be in it all the time. And this is understandable, because their climate is softer, dry and there is no such amount of dirt on the streets as ours. In his opinion, homemade slippers are an absolutely unnecessary thing and it is completely incomprehensible why you are trying to retrain the guest.
- An intimate can also shocking a huge number of people living on one living space. For us, this state of affairs is almost the norm, since not all spacious housing not everyone can afford and many families are forced to huddle in tiny apartments.
A human lifestyle from the post -Soviet space and a person from Europe or the USA has striking differences. The fact that is completely natural for us, the Western pensioner will not understand absolutely. For example, he will not understand why he now cannot relax and engage in his beloved hobby, but should devote the rest of his life to care and supervision of his grandchildren, and possibly even his children.
Tell the stranger the mysterious phrase “Old New Year” and you will make him digest the meaning of these words for a very long time! Firstly, it will not be clear to a person how the holiday can be both new and old. Secondly, he is shocked by the scale of our traditional celebrations of the New Year. Most likely, the foreigner will be happy to join the celebration, but he will not be able to understand the meaning of what is happening.
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