Five things that annoy a Russian woman terribly in the USA
'20.06.2021'
Source: Zen.Yandex
Julia has been living in the USA for a year and a half. In the new country, she discovered several things for herself that she, as a Russian girl, is very hard to get used to, and something from the list just makes her angry.
Julia tried to make her "Top Enrages" more original, and did not include those things that many people say about it, writes Zen.Yandex.
5 things that enrage the Russian girl in the United States:
1. Most men in America do not offer their help to women. For example, my sister told me the situation. She stood in line at the checkout in the store, and in front of her was a woman who bought a package of bottles of water, about 35 bottles. Of course, this packaging is very heavy. There were three men behind her, and the woman so playfully asked: "Maybe someone strong will help me carry the box to the car?" And all these men began to hide their eyes, look somewhere to the side and pretend that they simply did not hear her.
2. Hypocrisy, which is often found at work and in personal relationships. When I came here for the first time, I was a student and worked here according to a famous program in an ice cream shop. And very often a situation could happen when a person smiles in your eyes, everything is fine with you (as a rule, this is an American girl), you think - well, we have such a sweet friendly relationship. It's just that in Russia such a relationship is very easy to establish with a colleague or with someone else.
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And this girl, who smiles in your face, will go to the boss and be sure to tell you that you did something wrong. She will never tell you about such things personally, she will not correct on the spot: "Here, you messed up, please, don't do that anymore." She will go and do it behind your back. And then you will find out through a third person. This happens here all the time, and at first it was very unusual for me and even disgusting. But then you get used to it and you start to see the other side of such situations.
3. But this point really infuriates me. Separation of organic and non-organic in grocery stores. Maybe for some it may seem unimportant, but it bothers me when I come to the store and I see: organic and non-organic.
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Organic will be twice as expensive. And you look at these vegetables and understand that they are exactly the same. So I really get the impression (maybe because I'm Russian) that they just pasted this organic sticker on one vegetable, but not on the other. I very much doubt that there really is any difference. I do not like this.
4. Very female item. I am really annoyed here by the excessive attention of people to your child. I'm not talking about smiles now, just some: “Hello! What a cute baby! ”. I'm not talking about this now, I think it's cute, friendly and even pleasant. I know that many Russians are annoyed by this, but I feel good about it. It even lifts the mood. But! When Americans come up to my child and begin to touch the cheeks, the handles that the child then drags into his mouth, it terrifies me. And some ...
Here I had a situation, we were sitting with my daughter near the ocean, and a very strange woman came up to us. She began to lisp with the child, and then she tells me - can I hold her? I say no, you can't. And then she started asking where we live, I said that we are from Russia, and everything became clear to her. This often happens here: in the supermarket, someone may come up to you and take the child by the hand. This is normal, most people react calmly to this. One can sometimes encounter a negative reaction from a parent if observed, and, as a rule, this parent will turn out to be a Russian woman.
5. Prices for medicine and drugs. Antibiotics cannot be bought without a prescription, but you probably know that. But what bothered me when I moved is that you can't buy lenses here without a prescription. To get a prescription, you need to go to an optometrist. Once a year you are obliged to go to the optometrist and get checked. And every time you pay for the appointment. The last time we went, I paid, it seems, $ 100 - and even then, this is not the most expensive optometrist.
You can give 150 dollars just because you checked your eyesight and wrote a prescription for lenses. Only after that you can buy yourself a lens. Here in Russia, as you know, you can buy lenses from vending machines in shopping centers. Maybe this is good in terms of health, but not everyone can give that kind of money for an oculist. Especially if the vision is stable for many years.
