on May 15, 2015 in World News
Why Don’t Russians Smile?
Why Don’t Russians Smile? Famous linguist reveals the reasons Foreigners regularly say that Russians are astonishingly unsmiling people. This fact is widely mentioned in the blogs, tour-guides, discussed in personal conversations and shared with friends and acquintances. Indeed, we Russians smile more rarely than other nationalities, but, as explained below, we have our own reasons for this. Famous scientist, professor Iosif Sternin, names one of the specific parts of the Russian national character – everyday unsmiliness and explains it with several reasons. AdMe.ru quotes extracts from the article of the professor, which bring a light to some of the peculiarities… View Article
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