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Features of the American mentality: why they are not like us

Each country has its own characteristics of communication and a certain mentality. As for America, it is a country that has gathered an unrealistic number of immigrants, and therefore mentalities, writes the author of the site za-bugrom.com, Sergey Timshin.

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Seriously, I haven’t met ANY American who would be an American at least in the 4 generation. All of them, at least, grandmothers or grandfathers were immigrants, and many of them were parents. However, some basic identical features are present for all who live here. So, the main features of the mentality of Americans.

SPIRIT OF COMPETENCE

As far as I understand, even from school, Americans are told that they are the best in everything on the planet! In part, this is largely true, there is an excellent auto industry, top technologies, actors, sports leagues, the whole world bows to Apple products (I am not one of them), the capitalization of the most expensive company on the American Exchange is greater than the capitalization of the entire Russian stock market.

Strange as it may seem, most of the locals are really sure that America won the Second World War, and Russia just helped. That is why the competition here is very high in everything and everywhere, everyone is trying to show that he is better than others. Hence the following point: arrogance.

AMERICAN HIGHER AMERICA

As I said, because of the fierce competition, everyone is trying to stand out, and therefore many look arrogant. This does not mean that by coming to the bar or simply communicating with someone one-on-one, an American will humiliate you and praise himself.

But if you come to any event, then be prepared that most Americans will behave as if they own a pair of oil rigs.

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VANITY

Who does not know, there is such a site LinkedIn, where people can indicate their work experience, their achievements and other merits so that the employer can come in and get some idea about you. As one of my friends told me about LinkedIn, this is a vanity fair.

Because of the first point of “rivalry”, people write that they are professionals in a particular field, although they have very superficial knowledge. For example, half of my group on LinkedIn says that they are already pros at Machine Learning, although they finished a completely different humanitarian specialty a year ago and heard about machine learning for the first time a month ago. Since almost everyone does this, employers no longer pay much attention to your praises about experience.

But the most important thing is that you should never judge people by their words, especially here in the USA. Be sure that you are probably much more experienced and smarter than most, despite their profiles and self-promotion.

A Russian university professor explained to me that for some reason the Russians always belittle their achievements, while the Americans, on the contrary, strongly exaggerate.

OPTIONAL

This is what I did not immediately get used to. Americans don't say no to a request right away. If someone asks for a service, everyone will shower their heads, promise to help, but then suddenly there will be 100 reasons why they will refuse. And, most likely, they will do it by e-mail or quietly merge, since to say “no” to the face immediately is considered rude.

We had a situation in the fall when a classmate offered volunteer work at a bank, where he works at 7 (!!!) on Saturday morning, at 2's hours of driving. At first, I didn’t even believe my ears how crazy the sentence sounded. But the company actively supported everything and immediately agreed to go to the event in a month. I then decided that this was apparently accepted, and asked for time to think twice.

In the end, do you know how many Americans went? ZERO!! However, I went, a loser from Russia who is used to doing what he promised. This is how I was cheated of my trust.

LOVE TO HALYAVA

Everyone loves a freebie, but many hide. Here it is considered to be a completely normal desire to grab a discount or something free. That's why lotteries, black friday and coupons are so popular here.

Despite the fact that people have much more money than in Russia, many people are willing to scour for coupons that will give a discount in 2 dollars to 5-jar of coffee. Once at the university, they distributed free pretzels with mustard, which were terribly dry and tasteless, so they were taken apart and came for new ones.

My classmate, grunting, gobbled up the 3 pretzel with me, simply because it was a freebie. Unexplained, but fact!

FRIENDLY AND TOLERANCE

The people here are very friendly. If a teacher enters the classroom, he always smiles, is ready to answer all the questions and in no way will he say that he has no time or is busy. People here are very careful not to seem rude.

If you raise your hand and ask a question, the teacher in 100 percent of the cases will say “GREAT question”, “AMAZING remark” or something like that. All this is very motivating and helps you feel more comfortable. If in Russia at the MAI they could answer the question that we took a couple of lessons back and I should know this, then there will never be such a thing.

Besides being friendly, everyone here is very tolerant and absolutely welcomes people of all genders, nationalities and orientations. God forbid you mention someone’s sexuality or nationality in a bad way - society will eat you up and judge you.

COMFORT DEPENDENCE

Of course, everyone loves to sleep in a warm bed and eat a hearty meal. But if we compare the Russians and the Amricans, then we are much more adapted to the Spartan conditions, because we constantly live in them.

We still remember the times when our parents washed by hand. Why are there parents, I myself 6 years ago with might and main washed clothes in a hostel in the pelvis. Here it all went 50-60 years ago, I think. In addition, perhaps many have seen in films very dramatic scenes where the family decides to sell the house, because they cannot pay for it. For them, this is considered a tragedy, but almost all of our population is happy with a two-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow in a mortgage for 30 years.

I once told us that they turn off the hot water for a month, at which the Americans rolled their eyes and almost got a cold thought about it.

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ULTIMATE AND LOVE FOR PARTY

Probably, this item is more related to youth. If people say something before 16-25 years, then it is very noisy, drunk and big. Everybody yells, jumps like monkeys, and just goes crazy. On Saturdays on campus, someone always has parties and music is heard.

When sporting events take place, all the bars are packed to capacity and there is a complete anarchy with dances on the tables and a sea of ​​alcohol. However, as they grow older, Americans become noticeably calmer and prefer family holidays.

Summing up, it turned out some not very flattering characteristic of an American citizen. It turns out that a typical US citizen is an arrogant, vain revealer who loves comfort, does not fulfill promises, but always smiles at you and is ready to help.

But despite all this, it lives well here, and I do not have any problems with communication. Probably just high competition makes it so. In general, we are not like that, life is like that!

Published with the permission of the site za-bugrom.com

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