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Cultural Integration: Show willingness to integrate Russian traditions into your life. It’s a powerful way to demonstrate your commitment. Family Goals: Conversations about children and family life are important. Russians often have close-knit families and envision a future that includes children.
- Russians Love to Drink a Lot of Vodka. True. Vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage in Russia, which may partly explain why Russian alcohol consumption seems so high compared to other countries.
- Russia Is Always Cold and Covered in Deep Snow. False. While Russia does get a lot of snow in the winter, it also has other seasons, including warm and even hot summers.
- Russians Are Aggressive and Brutal. False. Just like in any other country, you will find all sorts of characters in Russia, including aggressive and soft-spoken.
- Every Russian Has a Relative in the Mafia. False. While the mafia was a prominent feature of the 1990s, even then this stereotype would have been considered untrue.
- Family in Russia. The family unit is very important, and every member of the family should contribute in some way. You’ll often find that families are small in Russia because most women also have jobs outside of the home.
- Russian etiquette: greetings. A firm, almost bone-crushing, handshake is typical Russian greeting etiquette when meeting someone (although the handshake between women and men is less firm).
- Russian body language and etiquette. Russians are wary of anyone who appears insincere. Smile when you mean it and are genuinely happy to meet someone. Also, sitting with the bottom of your feet showing is rude.
- Meeting. Russians are great hosts and love entertaining guests in their homes. Common Russian etiquette dictates that they often put more food on the table than can be eaten to indicate there is an abundance of food.
From my time in Russia, I've gotten the feeling that in general, Russians lean more toward the Western style. I've met a lot of students who say that they barely have any contact with their parents or siblings after high school, and especially after college and marriage.
Jun 27, 2017 · These are all qualities I'd love to see in my own kids. So with his help, I decided to spend a week raising my boys like a Russian parent. What does that mean exactly?
- Megan Zander
Jun 16, 2017 · In America, parents are taught that an early bedtime for their kids equals well-rested children who are ready to tackle the new day. However, according to Fatherly, kids in Russia regularly...
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