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Point of view: the myth of fake smiles and dumb Americans

Sergey Evelev

writer, TV and radio host

'29.01.2022'

I often heard statements about not-so-distant Americans, about their foolish smile, about contrived politeness, ostentatious desire to help and many other nonsense. Having lived here, abroad my own home, from where, for reasons beyond my control, I had to leave many years ago, I want to share my observations. One can disagree with them, even argue. But they do not claim to be true. This is just a point of view.

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Suddenly, for some reason, I thought that in the time of Michelangelo, many considered him lost, crazy, the devil, and the inventions of a genius - sedition and nonsense. This was also a point of view, although, as it turned out over the years, erroneous. Time is an inexorable judge who puts everything in its place.

So stupid Americans. I can't agree with this wording. Although, for starters, it would be necessary to decide who the Americans are. Remember the joke that Russian Jews teach mathematics to Chinese in America? Therefore, it needs to be clarified. If we consider the indigenous population as Americans, then you will not find them, those Indians. Those few that remained after the mass extermination by the conquerors of the continent, even then scattered throughout the country. If you consider everyone who lives in this country to be Americans, then you will generally get confused. In one block of New York, you can meet representatives of fifty countries. One block. All smells, shapes, colors and cultures. Among them will be those who were born here, those who arrived yesterday, legally or in a suitcase, those who came to visit and are going to leave, and those who decided to stay. Here you will meet those who have already stayed and hope to somehow legalize themselves, and those who have come from other countries and still do not understand what is happening here. Here you will be met by those who are ready to submit to America, and those who would like to conquer it.

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This is such a broth, or rather okroshka, where you will find everything you want, and, of course, as elsewhere, what you don’t want. But that's not the point. Without any unnecessary compliments and praises, paying tribute to a million imperfections, which are everywhere a wagon and a small cart, it should be noted that this country is ready to give equal rights to any genius or bandit. To give you the opportunity to prove that you are a genius and soar, or - that you are a bandit who can get comfortable enough in prison. I'm not kidding. Once he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and saw prisons. This is me about myself and about another country where I spent two years in the army paying tribute ...

Now about smiles. Let them not be real (by the way, for those who are used to or who have been taught to smile since childhood, they are quite real), let them be strained, even far-fetched. I personally am a thousand more pleased to see around "falsely smiling" than naturally gloomy, always dissatisfied, looking for fleas everywhere and, of course, finding them. Fleas are everywhere. As are rats. As well as dirt, meanness, forgery, betrayal, intrigue, rejection, hatred, lawlessness, injustice and a hundred more words from any dictionary. But smiles are sweeter to me than ... well, I already said ...

Now - about the stupid. Are there stupid ones here? There is. Lot? Sea. The ocean even. What does this tell you and me? Almost nothing. In addition to understanding that the smart here can succeed rather than succeed in a country where everyone is smart. I do not know exactly what kind of country it is, but even if you imagine that it exists, you yourself understand how difficult it will be to get to the surface there. Stupid, smart, half-stupid, quarter-smart, half-dumb and completely crazy, along with normal, average and geniuses, I think, inhabit all countries of the world. But I haven’t come across statistics showing us how they are packaged, disaggregated, or at least quantitatively distributed by class, depending on intelligence. Perhaps it is, but it is hidden by clever governments from the eyes of the people.

It is said that the standard of living of the population is determined by two indicators: attitudes towards children and the elderly. Here - treat them decently, even good. Again, looking with what and with whom to compare. In politics, I do not climb, tired of a long time.

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Therefore, as a reaction, I do not expect bright political pamphlets, as I hope that they will treat what I have said only as a point of view of an individual individual, brought to the country by more or less equal opportunities by the will of fate. Let no one think that here heaven and manna are pouring on their heads forever ...

But I think that with all things being equal, there are many chances here, especially for the young. You can scold the country, the system, the government, the president ... Everyone and everything. By the way, everyone has the right to do this, perhaps they even should ... But this is the right of those who live here. This is their country, so let them scold. Demonstrate democracy. Do you want to walk around the city with a placard listing everyone, up to the president himself, and named with the most impartial words - all of them, a group? Walk. No one will put you in jail. And this is probably not bad.

Well, the last. To understand what country you live in, you need to look at who is running from it and who is striving for it. And that's it. No questions. Topic closed. Although you can pour poison on everything and everyone. If this makes it easier for someone, you are welcome. Although watered it, probably, to the bulb. Tightly off light bulb.

I think so.

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