Культура России и Англии

The culture of russia and english speaking countries

aim: How understand national character through culture, traditions and customs

There is a big amount of examples we can list about national character of different people.

Proving the difference of the national stereotypes I want to compare Russian and English-speaking nations. There are a lot of features that vary.

• The Russians are industrious, tough, brave, progressive and suspicious. They are always considered to be nationalistic, patriotic (because of this reason they're good soldiers), we are willing to respect opinion of other people .

Russian culture has a long history and tradition and Russians are very proud of it.  

They like to talk about "specifics of Russian soul" or "mysterious Russian soul", and repeat the famous phrase of a Russian poet "You can't understand Russia by your mind".

• Speaking about Englishmen I may note that they're reserved, tradition-loving, courteous, honest, extremely nationalistic and etc. To my mind, they have a specific sense of humor. They say that they can't understand our jokes and anecdotes not only because of the different meanings of the words, but because of their humor is more delicate.

• Russia is the country of the dramatic beauty. To my mind, the main traits of the real Russia character character are hospitality, "open heart", "golden hands", wise Russian fairytales reflect their wisdom. The Russians are a very talented nation.

• Looking at these features of the Russians and the Englishmen it is not hard to mark out the differences. The Englishmen are reserved, but the Russians are open-hearted and communicative. The Englishmen are tradition-loving and the Russians, to my mind, don't keep their traditions in such a degree.
• There is a great majority of factors that influence the nations stereotype and its people's character. The culture traditions and history also has a great influence on the national character.
• The National Character exists. It is not a myth, it's a reality. But the National Character doesn't describe the character of every person, it describes the character of people of nation in general. Every person has its own character, but according to the person's belonging to some nation many traits of character are similar and these features may be explained as the national character