According to what five events an American will surely understand that he is facing a Russian: smapse — LiveJournal
Changing the country of residence, work is commonplace. Consular housing services are simplified, it is easy to find, buy a ticket, arrange a job, find a school or kindergarten for children.
Therefore, people migrate, looking for comfortable conditions for themselves, wanting to get into a different environment. When we live in a new place for a long time – not two or three weeks of vacation, a year or two – we unwittingly improve the language, adopt assimilation, change taste preferences, style of clothing.
It is all the more surprising that after many years of living in another country, we still “give out” ourselves, remaining parishioners in the eyes of the natives!
Russians who have been working in content they tell us by what habits and manners of America acquaintances accurately determine who is in front of them.
Tell me what you have for breakfast
In Russian stores in America, various cereals, sour-milk products, tea, jams, and honey are in abundance on the shelves. This is an ordinary demand, because an edible breakfast in Russia – porridge, cottage cheese, cheesecakes with sour cream, lazy dumplings, casseroles.
The choice of cereals is large: you can cook semolina, oatmeal, buckwheat, millet. Russians are used to drinking breakfast with tea or freshly brewed coffee.
For an American who habitually falls asleep in a bowl of cereal and fills it with milk or juice, we understand. He spreads a layer of peanut butter on the bread that does not spoil for months – we boil a soft-boiled egg.
And our preparations for the future, borscht for three days, jelly, aspic, pies – they said on our tables even in a foreign land. A resident of America would prefer to take a ready-made or roast in the supermarket, heat up the soup in the microwave with a semi-finished product, and dine with a burger.
We will rush to the shelves for vegetables and eggs, for soda and beer. So it is not difficult to calculate a resident of Russia by basket products or breakfast.
Smile!
Serious, concentrated, often gloomy – our faces inherent in epithets are characterized by a moderate American. He will smile at us, asking how we are doing, smiling at everyone around him, from a close friend to a random street vendor.
Indeed, it is in their blood, at the level of the genetic code. Many American consumers are sure that the absence of a “smiley” face is a sign of an aggressive disposition. For us, a smile is a sign of a special relationship, emotional concentration with a person’s emotions, so we single out loved ones.
Smile more often and for no reason if you want to pass for your territory!
Accent and accents
With a high probability of an accent, it betrays us with a soul: compatriots speak English softer, slower, otherwise building sound phrases. The native Yankee will highlight other words with his voice, announce some of the endings – we speak correctly, as taught.
Young people quickly grasp the subtleties of speech: after a short time of life, in connection with this, they are perceived as their own. The older generation is more difficult. You can live in the USA for 30-40 years, have a home, work, but a casual American interlocutor will probably ask where we came from.
This phenomenon often prevents actors from acting in Hollywood films without superimposed voice acting, often for them – Russian-speaking characters.
Wrong style
The style, the manner of dressing in this way, the attitude towards appearance – one can easily determine from the phenomena: in front of you is not an American. Most people in the United States wear comfortable, non-restrictive clothing on a day-to-day basis.
Shorts, leggings, wide shirts, T-shirts with inscriptions or search results are popular. And it doesn’t matter if the T-shirt is wrinkled or not, whether there was such a style at the last show in Milan — comfort and mood are important.
Therefore, if a woman in a dress, with a neat hairstyle, make-up, and high heels walks along an American city street, you can take bets – she is from Russia or a Commonwealth country.
Slavic face type
Indeed, we do not notice our “similarity”, but for the American Slavs, the features are immediately evident, stand out from the crowd.
an ordinary resident of New York or Kansas is not defined, Ukrainian, possibly Belarusian, Pole or Russian before him. But he will know for sure: this is not his compatriot.