Here is an extract from an email I was sent in work (in Moscow) titled "It is soooooo true". Apparently it was written by a foreigner who has an equal opinion of Russians and Americans. I have a feeling that is not the case...
American kids: Move out when they're 18 with the full support of their parents.
Russian kids: Move out when they're 28, having saved enough money for a house, and are two weeks away from getting married.....
unless there's room in the basement for the newlyweds.
American kids: Their dads always call before they come over to visit them, and it's usually only on special occasions.
Russian kids: Are not at all fazed when their dads show up, unannounced, on a Saturday morning at 8:00, and starts pruning the fruit trees.
If there are no fruit trees, he'll plant some.
American kids: Have never seen you cry.
Russian kids: Cry with you.
American kids: Will eat at your dinner table and leave.
Russian kids: Will spend hours there, talking, laughing, and just being together.
American kids: Know few things about you.
Russian kids: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
American kids: Are for a while.
Russian kids: Are for life.
American kids: Think that being Russian is cool.
Russian kids: Know that being Russian is cool.
American kids: Will ignore this.
Russian kids: Will forward it.
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