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Lamps · Just Starting Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

Following on from the "what do Russian sthink fo Australians", i thought id ask about my own country and its people: Ireland and the irish.

What do you Russians think of us? Also sterotypes etc?

As an irish man that spent a mere 3 days in Russia, i think of the Russians as being very friendly but love to follow rules and regualtions. As a nation Russians also seem very obident, tough, slightly weary of other nations but most importantly great fun - Ive never met a nation of people who are so much fun and a little crazy Very Happy

but when i say that i speak only for the women. The men seem very afraid to show emotion and they seemed to rarely laugh or joke about - very differnet to the ladies. Im also talking about the poele of my age group - 20 -25. They seemed never to smile, while the womne seem to go about having great fun and going crazy.

Both the men and women were very intrested to learn and hear about my stories from ireland which was really cool. i relaly enjoyed the country and cannot wait to visit again, ive traveled the world and would put the Russians up along with the soundest nation of people iv emet Cool

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Lamps · Just Starting Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

Ok maybe i was a little wrong about the Russians being obedient, but there was something about it that made me pick up on that...

Another thing for certain was that the Russians for the msot part seemed really embaressed about their country, yes they loved Russia but seemed a little ashamed of it. I was forever reassuring them that its an amazing country and that was the reason i was there. Nearly everybody i spoke to " Why you come to Russia, its real shit!?". FOr the most part I spoke with Russians in their early to mid twenties, I think lot of them hadnt been outside Russia and presumed that Western Europe was some sort of idealic place were everything was beautiful and everyone was rich and really happy, whereas we all know thats not the case. i dont know wy they all thought that though....

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Absurd · Frequent Guest Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 21

[quote="Lamps"]Another thing for certain was that the Russians for the msot part seemed really embaressed about their country, yes they loved Russia but seemed a little ashamed of it. I was forever reassuring them that its an amazing country and that was the reason i was there. Nearly everybody i spoke to " Why you come to Russia, its real shit!?". FOr the most part I spoke with Russians in their early to mid twenties, I think lot of them hadnt been outside Russia and presumed that Western Europe was some sort of idealic place were everything was beautiful and everyone was rich and really happy, whereas we all know thats not the case. i dont know wy they all thought that though....[/quote]

I'd call it "Soviet provincialism".

darthvader · WayToRussified Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 363

Bat · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject:

"Idiocy of russian laws is compensated by non-compulsion of their execution"

Saltykov-Shchedrin said that.

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Voyager · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

Lamps , I am surprised that you dont recognise the demenor of Russian men as most Irish men behave the same way , and from the Russian proverbs you'll see that we have a lot in common with the Russians , except that their country is vast compared to ours and they dont have the bloody brits parked alongside them Laughing

I've spent a bit of time in Russia over 3 trips and Russians are a little weary when you speak english at first (probarbly not sure weather you are American or British) but once they know you're Irish they relax and then a great time is usually had by all , you'd be surprised how similar Irish and Russian humor is.
If I remember my history correctly , both the Russian people and the Irish people (Celts) all came from the same place (before Russia or Ireland were inhabited)

tigresslover · Just Starting Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 1 Location: usa

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