USA vs Russia Culture, Explained

so much historic and factual bias.... absolute cringe T_T

it will be interesting to see how this rivalry evolves over the next 20 years

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.

Are u stupid ? Russians can’t express their free will because of their crazy leader and system. Of course they view themselves as individuals,but the media of course can’t show that

Communism is inevitable.
We'll just call it something else in the future so it doesn't have negative connotations.

Good job on changing the thumbnail

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.

Normal Culture vs
LGBTQ+ABCDEFGH..... Culture(He,she,they,them,fu*k..)

Too broad a topic

Meeeh video. I agree with some other comments: width of the topic too big for 15 mins. Moonlanding? Come on haha. Doesnt american culture go back to killing the native americans and robbing their space? And the Family guy scenes of Russia? Ohh man such a no go, unless this is comedic...

Nobody ever mentions that Adam Smith was from Kirkcaldy :(

Mon the lang toon

Honestly a pretty piss poor comparaison of two cultures.

Russian here (coming from St. Petersburg). Just wanna add my two cents here: there's a big difference in mentality between Russians from big cities (such as Moscow, St. Pete, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and such) and from small towns/rural areas. The former are way more individualistic and outgoing. Matter of a fact, having known many Americans, I'd say we have A LOT in common. Bigger Russian cities have always leaned towards the West culturally (many of their inhabitants are pissed with the political shift towards China and the Arab countries). Ranging from the general outlook on life (albeit more in conservative in Russia, reminiscent of the American South nowadays or the general US in the 60s) to the sense of humor (a lot of absurdistic, over the top or sex-themed stuff). Big difference, though, is how Russia beats the living shit out of US in terms of corruption. Compared to Russia, the US is a monument to transparency (and I am well-aware of how corrupt it is).

BTW: Russians eat lots of meat. It's affordable nowadays, it was only an issue in the Soviet years.

This seems like a much bigger topic than you usually tackle and not sure anyone can really do it well in 15 minutes. . Comparing cultures - discussing cultures (sub cultures/ linguistic/ religious/formal/social etc) is difficult -( I did some of it at University). I think this piece has tried, but because the net is cast very wide, some of the more interesting elements have slipped through and we're left with a slightly loose, slippery piece. I suggest more refined, detailed examination of particular aspects (even if you'd explored the blue jean craze in the former Eastern bloc countries) would allow you to explore this topic and perhaps build a series that explored cultural differences on a grander scale. Hope this is clear enough (off the top of my head). I like the idea of exploring these bigger topics, but your research and presentation will need to be tight. Thanks for all the work you do, A.

Ahhh yes, 1941 through 1945. The infamous era of peace.

The whole video is a bad take.

Russian families live on a farm? Wrong, Russia's population is much more urbanised compared to US population. Check statistics.

Russian families are multi-generational? Party is true, but only for poor people (i.e. around 33% of the population, there are a lot of poor people in Russia) who don't have access to housing. Culturally family ties are not more important for Russians than for Americans.

Russian society is a traditionalist one? Not really, the whole idea of communism was to destroy those traditions, and commies mostly achieved that. You see SOME comeback to traditions, but with 4 previous generations never actually holding those traditions - it's not really working. There are studies on that available if you're interested. (Homophobia is something modern Russian propaganda pushes, but that's a new thing - in 90s /yearly 2000s no one pushed that narrative).

Individualism is also something that happened in Europe which had feudalism, but it did not happen in Russia. Why? Communism is the answer. Not feudalism.

And all Europe was playing with communist ideas as well, it's only Russia, unfortunately, had the communist revolution succeeded.

Food stuff is also wrong.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This video is just one stereotype after another. I'm not saying ALL the stereotypes are wrong - some of them are not - but most of the video is just not true at all.

BTW, modern Russians are more individualistic compared to Europeans, for example. But yes, maybe less than Americans. So you need to put all of that in context.

And yes, we do not smile at strangers. That's like the only thing video got right.

As a Russian, you were more accurate than most in dissecting our culture. There's already a comment pointing out where you made a slight error. Great video though!

and become obese

that interviewer who is slagging off buzz left me in stiches, kinds of sounds like something Simon Amstel would say if buzz was on never mind the Buzzcocks

Moon landing footage is fake