Friday, May 11, 2012

Russian Culture #001 (IMO)

The Love of Russian to Russia is interesting and hard to understand:
in Russian culture is very common to swear the Country, but it's allowed only for Russians. If some foreigner would try to say some abusive words about Russia - the reaction could vary from a silent lose of confidence to this person to very emotional discussion or even a fight. That could be started even by someone who heard by a case ad even was not invited in the conversation.

This way gives a very weird image about the relationships between the Russians and Russia.

Maybe some examples could give more light for this...

Just by a case I remembered one deep and interesting point: expressions "you are not Russian, aren't you?" or "you are like not Russian" are abusive. These expressions mean that a person behaves in some stupid or totally weird and unacceptable way. The strength of the expression is tuned by emotions of a person who says it and normally that means - by loudness.