USA vs Russia Culture, Explained

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I travelled through Russia about fifteen years and in Moscow yes people seemed very unfriendly but being from London it didn’t feel very different. But on my first night in Moscow I couldn’t find my hostel, I couldn’t read the Cyrillic alphabet and got totally lost, wondered around the deep suburbs late at night in the freezing cold and was about to give up when I spotted a little old lady, I showed her the name of the hostel and she beckoned to me to follow her (she couldn’t speak English), she took me on several buses paying my fares and led me to the doorstep of the hostel, I was so overjoyed I walked right in and only realised she wasn’t with me once I was inside so I ran out to thank her but she was already long gone. Probably the kindest thing anyones ever done for me and to be honest if the roles were reversed I genuinely couldn’t see anyone doing that for a lost Russian who couldn’t speak English in London.

You can definitely tell this video was made by somebody that has never stepped foot in Russia lol

It is always funny to see how people are claiming that Russia has no free speech, but in reality the only difference between Russian and the Western take on free speech is that Russian censorship is still young and more straightforward, whereas in US its has a form of cancel culture and other more sophisticated ways. Western censorship makes everybody think that they can say whatever they want, and yet there are some topics that you simply don't talk about or opinions that you can't express not only in media but on workplace as well, etc.

-"I never was in Russia so let me tell you stereotypical truth(tm) about their entire nation what i learn in our hollywood propagandistic movies, this 100% didnt make me racist". Great idea.

It's funny to see a guy who doesn't know anything about Russia trying to say something with a smart face

we smile if we are having fun, if we are not having fun, we are not smiling, why should I pretend? everything is much simpler than foreigners think. In Russia, smiling at random people has nothing to do with politeness. my mother taught me “be polite, give grandma a seat on the bus” or “share a chocolate bar with a friend, it’s polite” or “don’t say bad words in front of adults, it’s impolite” or “I baked pies, go outside and annoy your friends , it's polite." she never said “smile at that guy, it’s polite” or anything like that. Therefore, a smile has nothing to do with politeness in Russia.

Fighting with stereotypes by stereotypes. Bravo!

More like comparing stereotypes about cultures than comparing actual cultures. To compare cultures you must have experience being in those cultures for some period.

‘The area between Russia and Europe’ Moscow is in Europe.

As a Russian. This video is actually bad, I mean really.. Such a bunch of clichés and stereotypes given as facts for some reason.

An american dude, who never experienced Russia, tries to find some clues about Russian culture and people, ends up with a bunch of cultural stamps, tries to find some roots of those stamps and makes a video about it. Give me 15 mins of my life back, please.

So in short, you know nothing about Russian culture and are just comparing stereotypes. Russian culture is older than the mere idea of the United States, let that sink in, yet you give it no credit. You briefly mentioned they like the more refined things in life such as the opera, only to mockingly show gopnik thugs (who are very much like your chavs). You forgot about the endless list of amazing Russian writers, poets, filmmakers, classical composers, painters, scientists etc. You forgot to mention Russian traditional music. You forgot to mention that Russia is actually ethnically diverse with many ethnicities living under it's roof, with these regions at times even having their own autonomy. You forgot to mention how Russian culture is a mixture of old European culture (with the same roots as the West) and of Asiatic steppe culture. You did nothing to try and bring these two cultures closer to another. And no, I am not Russian, I am a Westerner who isn't brainwashed into hating people living on the other side of the world, or in my case, of the continent.

I was born in Voronezh, Russia to my Nigerian mom in 1993. My mum had spent 5years before my birth and she only has good things to say about Russia. Those (late 80s to early 90s) days where the best times of her life. She often visited my dad in Germany (he's Nigerian too) and Russia was still number one for her. Sadly, I didn't grow up in Russia. I was taken to Nigeria at a very very early age. For me, my passport says Nigerian but Russia has always been my favorite place because I came into the world in Russia. Now I live in the middle east (I'm new here) but Russia always takes first place in my heart.

11:40 bro, Russia have 190 ethnic groups. It's far more diverse than the US

I met and enjoyed the company of people from both countries. However, I think that Russians can be easily misunderstood, since their culture is not as widely spread as the Americans, but once you know them, you will love them.

Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire. London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene. Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it. There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.

4:24 in the early 1930s died not only millions of ukrainian people, but millions people all over the soviet union. why jimmy mention this?

As a Russian, I can only say one thing. This is the most stereotypical and unrealistic video on all of YouTube. The author is simply talking complete Hollywood nonsense.

I'm not from either country, but i have visited both and from my experience I found Russians far more friendly. The Americans i saw walking the streets seemed to frown a lot more than Russians, and were probably the least friendly people i've seen from any of the countries i've visited. The Russians i saw, smiled a lot.