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I had the opportunity to study and work in the United States from 1992 to 2009. Leaving for America for a professional conference, it seemed to me, who had just graduated from the Aviation Institute in Moscow (MAI), that I would see a country that could in many ways become an example for my Motherland, which at that time was just taking the path, as we were proclaimed then, democratic reforms. Then I started to discover America for myself, first attending university, then working in my specialty. Gradually, it became obvious to me that the American reality is absolutely not the same as it is broadcast to the whole world by the biased media. Now it is already clear to many that America is seriously ill, its economy is undermined, its national debt is growing exponentially, and the prospects for the country as a single cultural and national entity are unclear. Having lived there for 17 years, and watching how America has changed, I can say that the gradient of these changes is really negative.
The ashes of the "liberal experiment"
Many commentators explain the current problems in the United States solely in monetary and economic terms. It seems to me very superficial and does not reflect much of what happened there in reality.
Financial and economic problems are only a consequence of a real cultural and worldview transformation imposed by liberals on American society over the past decades. The liberal revolution was launched in the United States back in the mid-60s of the last century, and since then two generations of people have grown up, whose will is completely paralyzed by the liberal ideology, which has led America to today's insoluble contradictions. This transformation is already so irreversible that it will hardly be possible to reverse the negative trends that are gaining strength in America. Unfortunately, I also see that the liberal reforms now being imposed in Russia, and the algorithms by which they are carried out, are very similar to what I observed in the United States. I would even say that the United States serves as a kind of laboratory in which you can see what the future holds for Russia in the not so distant future, if the order of things in our country does not change.
I do not want Russia, which has been stuffed with liberalism for 20 years, to be brought into the same state in which the United States found itself after four decades of liberal rule. What allows me to believe that this can be prevented? The fact that in Russia, despite 20 years of catastrophic reforms, the processes of deconstruction of traditional morality, the atomization of society and the destruction of people's awareness of themselves as part of the people with a common historical destiny has not yet gone as far as it happened in America. This is confirmed by recent events, when protests against the unjust system created in Russia after 1991 resulted in numerous rallies across the country. Many people have already realized all the perniciousness of the path imposed on Russia. These people, whose consciousness has not been distorted by liberal propaganda, will be able to synthesize a new philosophy aimed at the revival of Russia.
An attempt by some of the liberals who have been removed from power by the current ruling regime to seize the initiative of popular discontent and use it in order to regain power again for themselves is obvious. If liberals succeed, they will continue the same disastrous course pursued by the current regime, with the only difference that instead of "national specifics" will be used American patterns of liberalism, from which domestic imitators derive their political inspiration. And the course of the current regime, which turned Russia into a cross between a raw material appendage of the West and a financial oligarchy, and the creation of a "multicultural society with a post-industrial economy" on the American model, which homegrown pro-Western liberals dream of, are both worse, since these are two sides of the same liberal monetarism ...
In this article, I would like, based on my observations of life in the United States, to talk about how liberal monetarism itself, the country's accession to the WTO, the creation of a trade union with Mexico and the ensuing massive migration to the United States of cheap labor from Mexico itself changed America and other Latin American countries.
Then I would like to analyze the reasons why the liberals carried out the transformation of the United States, using free market principles, globalization, political correctness and tolerance as the instruments of this transformation. Its result was that America, which back in the 1970s was based on European and Christian culture, possessed a powerful industry and was the main world creditor, is now transformed into a country of a "multicultural society", "post-industrial economy", a poverty-stricken middle class the main world debtor.
If the liberal course in Russia is maintained or continued under a new guise, then its result will be the loss of the remnants of Russian sovereignty, the final destruction of domestic industry, a drop in living standards of the population, the gradual replacement of the indigenous peoples of Russia due to mass migration from outside, and subsequent large-scale interethnic conflicts. and ultimately, the termination of Russian statehood.
New York as a premonition
In August 1992, I came to America to attend the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation. At the student session of the congress, where I made a report, which was based on my graduate work, the author of these lines met with representatives of the MarsMissionResearchCenter, organized by NASA at the University of North Carolina, with the aim of training young specialists for the Space Research Initiative proclaimed in 1989. I was asked to apply for GraduateSchool at this center. I was pleased with their proposal, because it gave me a chance to further study in my specialty, and then to participate in the NASA project, the ultimate goal of which was declared in 1989 to be a manned flight to Mars. My documents were accepted, but it soon became clear that, since I am a foreign student, NASA cannot pay for my studies, and if I still want to study at this center, then I have to pay for my studies myself.
While my entry visa was valid, I applied for a temporary work permit as a student whose documents had already been accepted for university studies.
My first real impressions of life in America I got in New York, where I lived for two years, earning money. New York is actually a city of contrasts, in which you can see a lot of interesting things - both beautiful and not so much. There is no particular point in talking here about things typical for this city, who are interested, they can easily extract the desired information from the Internet, books, stories of their acquaintances who have been there, etc.
What struck me the most in New York was the almost parallel worlds inhabited by immigrants from all parts of the world. It is only natural that people tend to settle among their peers ethnically, linguistically and economically. Therefore, different areas are inhabited by ethnically diverse immigrants who reproduce in New York the culture of the part of the world from which they came. Sometimes the dividing line between these districts can be just one street, such as 96th Street, which separates the fashionable part of Manhattan from the notorious Harlem. What is shown to the whole world in films and magazines, like business card New York City is the part of Manhattan between Harlem and Chinatown where the headquarters of multinational corporations, the UN and others are located international organizations, and which is inhabited predominantly by wealthy Americans.
In the rest of the city (which is about 80% of its area), you will feel like in some third world country. For example, most of Brooklyn and Queens are inhabited by immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The Bronx is almost entirely inhabited by migrants from Mexico and Latin America. We can say that New York is a huge semblance of the UN General Assembly, which brings together representatives of the most diverse peoples of the Earth, who have neither a common language, nor a common faith, nor a common culture, nor a common moral code. I remember more than once I was surprised to hear from Americans that, they say, New York is not America, if you want to live in real America, you need to go to some small town. Later, the meaning of what they were telling me became obvious to me.
New York is a kind of laboratory where the technology of transformation of the European and Christian (basically) American civilization was tested - into an egalitarian society of all races, religions, cultures and tribes that have nothing in common with each other, except for economic interests... However, in the process of this transformation, New York has completely lost its American character and identity. Obviously, this did not happen by chance. Time has shown that New York is a prototype of what the liberal elite is gradually turning the entire United States into, and what they would like to turn the rest of the world into.
American hinterland
After earning enough money to pay for the first two years of my studies, I was able to start postgraduate studies at the University of North Carolina (early 1995). Its campus is located in the state capital, Raleigh. Compared to New York, Raleigh gave rise to the feeling: I finally got to normal, traditional America!
Studying at the university presented many surprises and gave many interesting observations, and most importantly, it made it possible to really understand the mentality of Native Americans in many ways, since, despite the many people I met in cosmopolitan New York, most of them were either newcomers or immigrants in the first generation.
To be honest, the high level of requirements presented at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, where I underwent theoretical training, was a surprise to me. After studying at the Moscow Aviation Institute, back in Soviet times, I arrogantly thought that it would be difficult to surprise me with something. But in the first semester, I literally had to strain all my strength in order to at least have time to hand over term papers on time. Coursework according to the theory passed, they were issued every week, and not once a semester, and they had to be handed over no later than the specified day and no later than the specified hour on that day, otherwise the work would not be read at all. The theoretical level was generally quite high and practical work the material covered was conducted very intensively.
In my faculty, about half of the students were foreigners, mainly from China and India, many of them receiving funding from their governments, with guaranteed employment when they return home. At the computer department, for example, the number of foreign students generally reached 70%. I remember how students from India and China spoke with respect about Russia and told me that many of the textbooks they studied were published in the Soviet Union and later translated in their country.
The Americans, on the other hand, preferred to study in the humanities or business-oriented faculties, since they considered studies related to the natural sciences or technical specialties too difficult and with very uncertain prospects for further employment. However, those American “techies” with whom I happened to study made the best impression. They were engaged in good faith, there could be no talk of some kind of "trash". In the American academic world, plagiarism is generally considered a serious crime, and I have heard that there have been cases when it was expelled from the university.
After two years of theoretical training, I passed the qualification exams and began work on my dissertation. Along with this, I had the opportunity to teach students studying for a bachelor's degree, and from that time the university began to pay for my tuition.
Naturally, through interaction with people in the educational process, through participation in various activities outside of school, mutual rapprochement occurs and it becomes possible to speak more frankly on many topics. American undergraduate and graduate students could be well versed in their business and in some related fields. We could have an interesting conversation about some hobby or sport, but each of them had a rather vague idea of what was happening in the world around him. It was this narrow, limited perception of the world that struck me the most. Our conversations never touched on politics, crime or the flooding of the country with migrants, who literally changed the face of everything around us. That is, the problems that Americans face every day and, moreover, the very reasons that cause them, have never been discussed in one-on-one conversations, or in companies. These topics are virtually taboo in the United States.
Later, I was no longer very surprised by the presence of a certain unwritten list of topics that are forbidden for discussion, of what is called political correctness in America. I would say that Americans are distinguished by alienated individualism, some kind of apathy for the future of "this" country, as they said. Their thoughts are directed solely to their own survival and success. The exception was those Americans who had already studied or worked abroad, their worldview after that changed a lot. Apparently, it is not in vain that they say that everything is cognized in comparison.
"Golden State"
After defending my dissertation in 2000 and receiving my doctorate in the United States (Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering), I was offered to continue research work as a Research Assistant at NASA's Ames Center near San Francisco. The Space Exploration Initiative of the late 1980s, Bush Sr. was quietly buried in the mid-90s, and the ISS, the International Space Station, became NASA's top priority. Therefore, in the center of them. Ames, instead of developing a human expedition to Mars, we were engaged in the creation of landing vehicles capable of delivering autonomous rovers to the planet's surface, significantly larger than the first successful Mars Pathfinder rover, which arrived on Mars in 1997. The result of this work was the successful landing of the "Spirit" rover in 2004, and the large Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launched in November this year, which has the "Curiosity" rover on board, already with a mass of about a ton and a size of c a car.
In California, near Los Angeles, there is another NASA center, although it is formally called the "Jet Propulsion Laboratory" (JPL), where all interplanetary probes and landing vehicles are assembled, tested and controlled. The creation of two NASA centers in California in the 50s was not accidental. After World War II, California became the most populous state with the most powerful economy. Until the mid-70s, California was the focus of aviation and space companies, while its school and university education system was considered the best in the country, and the crime rate was very low. At the time, the Americans called California the “golden state”.
I did not find that “golden” California, but in many respects saw a completely different state. In 2001, California no longer resembled the rest of the United States in nature and in the composition of its population. While still studying in North Carolina, I heard more than once from Americans: they say, California is no longer America, because it is the most liberal state. It seemed to me that after the first two years of living in New York, it would not be easy to see something even less American in America. But in the California where I arrived, at times there was a feeling that I was more likely to be in Mexico than in America. Because of the sheer number of Mexican migrants living wherever I go.
I remember how in 2005 California was declared the first state in the United States where whites became a minority. More precisely, they then constituted 48% of its population, and yet in the mid-70s their number was about 90% of the population. Over the past decades, California has gone through a colossal demographic transformation, due to legal and illegal migration, the majority of which were Indian peasants from rural areas Mexico and Central America.
Migrants from Mexico and other third world countries form their ethnic enclaves wherever they settle, and continue to live according to the same rules and customs that exist in their homeland. Getting them naturalization papers does not necessarily make them American. As a rule, these migrants remain loyal to their country of origin and hardly assimilate. In addition, the authorities officially adhere to the ideology of multiculturalism. Such newly minted "Americans" often do not want to respect American traditions and rules of conduct and actively impose their way of life and their own norms of behavior. It happens that the children of migrants express more hostility towards America than their parents. For example, many Mexican youths already born in the United States have openly declared that they would like to return to Mexico the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, which became part of the United States under the 1848 treaty.
Millions of migrants who do not speak English, have no education, receive a variety of assistance from the Californian treasury, which is carefully provided to them by liberal politicians. To finance social security for migrants, in the form of paying for their housing, food, medicine and education, California had to raise taxes on its middle class to the highest level in the country. With the influx of migrants in the millions, there is still not enough money, and this has led to a catastrophic deterioration in the school system and medical services in the state, as well as an increase in crime. And the middle class, that is, taxpayers, began to leave California for those states where taxes are still lower, schools are better, and crime is less. Thus, there is a gradual replacement of the indigenous population of California with migrants from Mexico and Central America. As a result of the constant influx of millions of taxpayers and the outflow of millions of taxpayers, the once “golden state” declared itself bankrupt in 2010.
Processes similar to those in California are now underway in the states of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The states of Denver, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey follow with some lag. With a continuous influx of migrants across the southern border of the United States and their significantly higher birth rate than the indigenous population, it is only a matter of not too distant time when similar trends will begin to manifest themselves in the rest of the country. A change in these processes is unlikely to be foreseen, because Republicans act in the interests of business, hungry for profits from the exploitation of cheap labor of migrants, and Democrats stimulate the influx of migrants by providing them with generous social assistance in exchange for their voting votes, after they become citizens and can vote. ...
The scale of this migration is so profound that it leads to the cultural and social fragmentation of the country.
The dilemmas that the United States will tackle for the foreseeable future can be summarized as follows: how to avoid social anarchy, with the country's continuing deindustrialization, a steady decline in the American middle class, and an ever-growing number of migrants who are incapable of cultural assimilation? And how can the integrity of the country be preserved in the context of an ethnically and socially fragmented multicultural society into which the United States has transformed liberal immigration and economic policies?
"Liberal Monetarism in Action"
After elimination Soviet Union as its global competitor, the American liberal elite started talking about globalization and decided to create a free zone throughout North America market economy by concluding the Mexico-USA-Canada Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. As a result, a trade union was formed, the ultimate goal of which was declared to be the creation of a single economic space and the elimination of customs barriers to the free movement of goods, goods and people. After that, millions of migrants and illegal immigrants rushed to the United States. Who needs America, which has been flooded with migrants from Mexico?
The true beneficiary of this has become the financial and business circles, whose interests are precisely represented by the liberal elite of America. In their cynical understanding and in full accordance with the liberal principles of the free market. They say that in order to increase profits, in principle, only two things are required: minimizing the cost of labor and maximizing consumption. Migrants from the South provide her with both. Population growth at the expense of poor and illiterate migrants from the South leads, on the one hand, to lower wages. On the other hand, to a higher demand in the market for housing and services, which means an increase in the profits of those who live off this hired labor, the issuance of loans at a loan interest rate, and the receipt of dividends from investments.
America's liberal elite calls themselves "progressive", saying that they were able to rise above such a supposedly hopelessly outdated concept of national patriotism. She declares that she has the best feelings equally for all inhabitants of the Earth and that the very difference in concepts such as “legal citizen of the country” and “illegal migrant” has lost all meaning for her. In this case, it remains only to wonder how anyone who does not have a special love for their country and their compatriots can generally love someone or something? It is noteworthy that none of the “progressive” liberals want to live in areas inhabited by migrants and illegal immigrants, instead they prefer to settle in fashionable neighborhoods with reliable private security.
The language spoken by migrants and their foreign culture, as well as the gradual decline in living standards in America itself to the level of a third world country, worries the American business community least of all, since its profits grow precisely due to this process. The import of unskilled migrants allows them to be used in the service sector, while paying them several times less than their own citizens who are accustomed to much higher living standards.
From the point of view of the liberal elite, this is a completely logical approach, since, in the pursuit of superprofits, since the 1980s, it has taken the main industrial production of the United States to the Pacific Rim countries, limiting the American labor market mainly to the service sector that does not require highly skilled workers. strength. It turns out that since the beginning of the 1980s, the middle class has been curtailed from the opportunity to have skilled and highly paid jobs in industry. And with the beginning of the 90s, in addition to this, they began to squeeze him out of the service sector with the help of low-paid migrants.
In 1995, the United States joined the WTO. For the American middle class, the cumulative effect of America's accession to the WTO was in many ways very similar to that of the United States' entry into a trade and customs union with Mexico. First of all, it is the loss of millions of jobs, the bankruptcy and closure of tens of thousands of small and medium-sized companies that serve as the main employers in America. These companies, in principle, could not compete with manufacturers of similar products in Southeast Asia or Latin America, where workers have an order of magnitude lower wages. Paradoxically, among the most affected by the WTO were computer and other high-tech small and medium-sized companies. The fact is that after the cancellation or reduction of customs duties, manufacturers of computer components from China and Taiwan began to supply their products to the United States for much more low prices than local suppliers who had no choice but to get out of business. And why bring the components to America, far away from the seven seas, if you can assemble products from them on the spot? Therefore, now on almost any American high-tech product you will read: "developed in the USA", and in the same place - "assembled somewhere else." That is, for the entire cycle of production and assembly, the American owner of the company pays salaries not to his compatriots, but to workers and engineers somewhere in Brazil, India, China or Taiwan.
A similar approach has been extended to many other industries.
By personal experience I can say that if in the mid-90s, probably half of the goods in American trade had the inscription "MadeinUSA", then after ten years almost everything, with rare exceptions, was made in China, Taiwan or somewhere else.
With the development of Internet communications, the next step was that now the very engineering development of many products or the creation of computer software, American companies began to order in India and China, because there they can do it with high quality and on time, but many times cheaper. And with the same devastating effect on American market labor, as is the case with the production of components and finished products from them. Moreover, such a development and production scheme contributes to the constant transfer of technology to the manufacturing countries. This largely explains the fact that during its membership in the WTO, America has lost its former indisputable scientific and technological leadership, while India and China are rapidly closing the technological gap with the United States.
Progressive deindustrialization, a service sector increasingly relying on the labor of low-paid migrants, an impoverished and shrinking middle class that was once the backbone of the United States - such is the American "post-industrial" economy today. I remember well how in the 90s liberals told Americans about the benefits of creating an economic union with Mexico, about the benefits of WTO membership and the transfer of industry to Asia and Latin America... In the 2000s, liberals drew them fabulous prospects for a new, globalized economy based on Internet technologies and the transfer of computer and engineering developments to India and China.
Ruin
The consequences of the liberal economic policy well reflected by the nature of growth public debt USA. America's national debt for the period from 1945 to 1965 did not exceed $ 250 billion. With the onset of liberal social transformations, the national debt began to grow and reached 1 trillion by 1980. But when the liberalization of the economy began in the 80s, and then its globalization in the 90s, the national debt has already started to grow exponentially and has reached an astronomical value of 15 trillion dollars by now. With the continuation of the policy of liberal monetarism, the essence of which is the privatization of profits and the socialization of losses, the only question is: when will this financial Pyramide? The consequences of its collapse will be truly catastrophic for America and very serious for the rest of the world.
In fact, the real conflict here is between America's middle class and its liberal elite. This elite is loyal only to money, the interests of banks and transnational corporations that they own. She is no longer interested in the well-being of the American middle class. It benefits from cheap labor from Mexico and Central America, while American cities are turning into ethnic Bantustans, organized crime is on the rise, and schools, hospitals and prisons are overflowing with non-English speaking migrants who are hostile to native populations. The liberal elite does not care about this, because they live in closed areas, their children attend expensive private schools, and they have completely isolated themselves from the multicultural society that it itself has spawned with its policy of globalization and the export of cheap labor. For the liberal elite, America has become just a place to make money. She no longer considers the United States to be her home. The liberal elite are cosmopolitan, they have dominions all over the world, and when the truly destructive economic crisis, and then interethnic strife will begin, she will simply move to one of her cozy retreats to ride out the storm. When American leaders talk about "American interests," they are little more than a cover for certain group aspirations of those who have full financial and economic power and who no longer have anything to do with the American people or their interests.
The fact that the liberalization of the economy, its globalization, accession to NAFTA and the WTO, turned out to be very beneficial for the financial and business elite of America - there is no doubt, since by doing so it radically reduced its economic costs and increased its profits just as radically. But in the process of their enrichment, the liberals destroyed the economic base of America's middle class, almost turned the United States into a third world country, flooding it with tens of millions of unassimilated migrants, and laid the foundation for the coming bloody ethnic conflicts.
I have been in the States for 2 months now, waiting for my own birth, and I believe that it’s my turn to tell you about the five main differences between Russia and the United States.
The first thing that immediately catches your eye
Is cleanliness on the street. I don’t know what they are doing: they wash, clean, don’t litter ... but the condition of the roads and the dirt on them is very different. You can watch any of mineVLOGand see what I'm talking about. There are a lot of grass, trees, neat streets, everything is very, very beautiful. The same goes for houses. Since there is more private property, then, of course, people follow what their yard looks like and try to decorate everything around them.
Second, of course, I cannot ignore the topic of motherhood. And here, in order:
1.
In America, there is no concept of a decree, as in Russia, that is, a woman goes to work to the last (of course, if you are not a waiter or something like that, when the stomach is simply in the way). After a woman gives birth, if a good employer, then you should go to work in three months. At the same time, at work, a room will be equipped or allocated for her where she can express milk. But as such, there is no long vacation.
2.
There are absolutely no payments for children in America! No maternity capital, no payments for the birth of 1, 2, 10 children, no dairy kitchen, no benefits. This does not apply to the poor and single mothers. Of course I have social programs help in such cases, but they are associated not with children, but with the social status of a person.
3.
There are no state kindergartens like ours. Baby goes to government agency vPre-
schoolat the age of 5, and only then can you not pay for it. Before that, someone should be with your child, since you yourself are working. Nanny, for comparison, costs about $ 8. in hour. This is about 350 - 400 dollars per week. A half-day kindergarten also costs about 300 - 400 dollars. The amounts are not small at all. As the Americans say: "Two small children in a row is very, very expensive."
The third point is laws, fines and freedom. In America, it may seem that everyone here is cute, kind, everyone is smiling at you, but at the same time it is customary here to call the police, if, for example, your neighbor is drunken rowdy, or on the next site someone smokes weed or does something illegal. In America, there are gigantic fines for everything! If you really break the law, then you will pay for it. And the word "pay" is not exaggerated, but you will really get a lot of money. And in general, any violations are costly.
The fourth difference is people. What surprised me? Women and men in their 50s look completely different. A lot of men look athletic, fit, with good hairstyles, fashionable glasses, clothes, slim. Women, on the other hand, do not look very neat, in some kind of stretched clothes. I understand, of course, that this is a matter of convenience and comfort, they left their cottage, went to the store and they don’t care what they think of them, but still, people in Russia try to dress beautifully.
Fifth difference. Alcohol and attitudes towards it. Here people drink much less. There are many other things to do! There are no drunken, staggering people on the street who will smell like fumes. There is no such thing, and I have not seen a single drunk here. But a lot of people run, and they are all so cheerful and positive.
I will also tell you my other observations.
Attitude to work. For some reason, many Americans work half a day or several hours a day, they are very lazy. They have their own house, which they have taken out on credit, a car, their parents also have a house, and also cars, so they don't really strive for anything so much.
The question of old age. Pensioners here are in a different social position than ours. If you have done a good job in life, then you will feel good here even in retirement. I would also like to say that people check their health throughout their lives, because this is included in the insurance. They constantly go to the hospital, get tested, control cholesterol levels, change their diet, and so on. And in fact, I have never seen such a fat American here, which is usually shown to us on TV, ala "they are all fat in America." We have, it seemed to me, a lot more fat people. In addition, Americans drink vitamins, dietary supplements that improve health, they have salsa courses.
And finally, a little funny. Films don't lie) Here, Americans are constantly walking their dogs, they are throwing newspapers in plastic paper, a yellow bus rides, which takes the children to school - that is, life is the same as in the films, not even invented without decorations.
Of course, there are a lot of differences, but as elsewhere there are disadvantages, and there are advantages.
Russians think that living in America is just wonderful. Many have dreamed about it since childhood, imagining a carefree life with a cool car and a beautiful three-storey house. It seems that moving there is the height of dreams. And some even succeed. But is everything so fine, and what are the features of life in America in general, which are better known, and for which it is better to prepare, especially morally.
Katya left for the USA 5 years ago. She recently returned to her homeland, and decided to talk about the peculiarities of life in a distant country in America.
The girl was also one of those who had a dream of life in America. But not every Russian can cope with such a life. Katya could not do this either. She still returned to her native Moscow, and no longer wants to leave her.
1. With your feet on the bed.
It was a great shock for Katya. It would seem that there is nothing wrong with the fact that Americans walk in the house in shoes, and they can even easily quit in bed like that. But it starts to infuriate Russians when it happens in front of their eyes every day.
No, they are not creepy. All roads are washed 4 times a day, while about 4 times a week this is done with special cleaning agents. And they hardly go on foot. Everyone travels by car or, in extreme cases, by taxi.
But the Russians don't like it anyway. Katya said that for her it was kind of not respect. Throw your feet on the table, or climb into your shoes on the bed. In Russia, as everyone knows, there is even such an expression - "Put the pig at the table, she and her feet on the table." By the way, because of this, you have to constantly change the floors of the house ...
2. Freedom ...
In America and in Russia, these are different concepts. It’s not even a matter of the state, but of society. Therefore, according to Katya, you need to immediately get ready for what you see. For example, everyone there normally reacts to the fact that two guys will stand in line and kiss. Let it even be children's store toys. No one has the right to say anything until no one personally does anything to you. Therefore, be prepared, if you have children, that they will look at it everywhere and all the time. People can be dressed in anything, and this should not worry anyone either.
3. People without housing.
There are a lot of them. Yes, all Russians know that there are many of them in America, but no one can even imagine the extent to which it is. These people live quietly on the central streets of the city. According to the authorities, this is due to the fact that housing in America is very expensive. Even taking it off is very expensive. Not every salary is enough even for a room that is not killed. In addition, America has cut funding for some hospitals, including psychiatric ones. People ended up on the streets and from there ... If they do not have a relative who can pay for their stay there.
4. Nutrition.
Almost all Americans eat their own fatty cuisine. These are fries, hamburgers, steaks, etc. And if you bring yourself something for dinner from home, and even useful, they will look at you strangely. Basically, everyone has a quick bite to eat in cafes that are located near offices.
5. Work.
It is especially difficult for those who have not lived in America. They are used to giving almost all the time to work. Moreover, the fact that you stayed until the night does not bother anyone. Nobody will pay you for this. And if you don't, then you will simply be kicked out. Any employer has the right to do so. Practically no one is concluded employment contracts... This makes it possible for both the employee to leave the position at any time, but also the employer to fire the worker simply because he so wanted. This is why all Americans are creepy workaholics. They have no other choice. Agree, we are not used to this. We know that we are protected by the law, and that we will not stay on the street just like that. And there - easily, moreover, without everything. The Americans buy everything on credit. Therefore, dismissal means a lot for them - without work, without housing, without a car and everything else, moreover, immediately, within a month.
So, everywhere it is good, where we are not ... Not everyone can stand it. Not to mention the insanely expensive medicine and stuff.
Hello everyone! This is Hvastovich Alexander, host of the project "America for Successful". And today the comment “Tell me about daily life Americans ”got the most likes, so I will talk about it. I want to say right away that everyday life in America and in Russia is by and large are not much different. If we do not take into account the scientific development and cultural difference, then people live the same way as in Russia: they fall in love, they quarrel, they give birth to children, they go to work. If in Russia someone is thinking of collecting money to buy a used car, then in America people are thinking how to collect money for a more modern new car... In fact, the problems are the same, and life is the same, just a different level. If you work in America and you have good acquaintances, then you will live well and with dignity. Maybe it just will be better than it would be at home, because of corruption problems or because it is difficult to find a job there, even as a qualified professional. That is, it could have been worse there than here, but everyday life is the same.
The average person gets up to work in the morning, takes a shower, eats, many here go to the gym before work, then go to work, work, who is at a construction site, who is in the computer industry, who is in the office. After work, he comes home, if one person lives, then spends the evening for his own pleasure - watching TV or going to bars, if with someone, he can go to a restaurant to eat, raise children. Everyday life in America is the same as everyday life in Russia, it is just that the level of wealth, the culture around and the introduction of technology into everyday life is changing. This is probably the main difference. Because both Russia and America are the developed countries... This is not some third world country where you have to look for food or water, and you live in a tent. So think of it like America is Russia, excuse the pun, just with a slightly more developed level of society and wages. But despite this, America also has enough poor people, there are people who have lived from paycheck to paycheck for generations, and they also have to pay for housing. Every month they have to look for money somewhere. There are many rich people here, but a rich person for us is the middle class here. He will have several cars in the family, each member will have a car, he has private house in which he lives. This is probably the main difference. There is no such thing here that mortgages are paid until the end of life, it is quite possible to buy a house or a car on credit here, and you can pay it off within 10-20 years, earning by average standards 40-50 thousand dollars per year per family member, not including children.
Therefore America is America. It's hard for me to add anything on this issue because it is so all-encompassing. If you go into details, you can find differences, I can tell you something more specific, but everyday life in America is the same as at home, just with a different level of wealth and culture and, as I said, the introduction of technology into everyday life. which, of course, is important. Many people come here precisely for this.
I hope I answered this question. As always, let's put our thumbs up, tell our friends and wait for more episodes. Thank you all, Alexander Khvastovich, the host of the America for Successful project, was with you. Everyone, bye!
It's me again. I have a couple of things that I would like to add. First, I think it's time for me to shave, but it doesn't matter. And the second thing I wanted to say is that the video turned out to be uninformative. I didn't really know what to tell. I knew, but you can't say much, at least that's what I think. Therefore, as a bonus, if you watch this video on Youtube, then you will see in the description of the video links below to my articles, interviews of various emigrants. For example, there are stories about how a girl came here as a student, then ended up in prison in America, then got out and now has already legalized herself. There is a story about how a pensioner came to live in America. How different people come, their impressions of how on a study visa come and stay. In short, I will give a few links to read and you have a little understanding of what it is like to live in America. Hopefully this makes up for the lack of information. Thanks to all! Bye!