Do not forget to spank a woman to death after insulting... I mean: charming her. Of course that what I have said is pure bullshit and stereotype. Not even the few Russian girls with a brain and a heart that I have met told me about it.
Хахаха! I am curious what stereotypes exist about Americans in Russia. I have heard about so many, I wonder which are most popular. I know we are LOUD, for sure. We're all cowboys/cowgirls? Maybe spies, too? 😉 )))
Wayne Ojala as an Armenian learning Russian, I can assure you my squat is deep as fuck (Also I have never heard the fact that Armenians are known for squatting.. thought it was mainly associated with Russians because of Slavic meme videos lol)
You were surrounded by people who actually watch and believe Russian TV, it seems.. I do not think such people ar very smart or educated, if they believe propaganda spread by tv. Just my opinion
My Russian girlfriend used vodka to cure and treat everything. Gargle, rub on chest, pour on wounds, party, unemployment, disinfectant, treat depression, commiserate with padrooga, etc.
The idea that all Russians have pet bears always reminds me of the stereotype of ‘oh, you’re from Texas? So you live on a ranch, right? You have a few long horn cattle?’ No, lol, I live in the fourth largest city in the whole country
Awesome video! I 'm Canadian, and we have our fair share of stereotypes too. People from florida believed me when I told them I drove a snowmobile to work every day :D
What you guys don't know is that after making this video, Fedor went backstage to drink vodka with his pet bear before writing a secret message to his spymasters in Moscow.
Hi, Fedor! Unfortunately, here in America, there's a lot of controversy surrounding Russia now, even after the Cold War. I don't know how familiar you are with American current events, but there is a lot of tension surrounding the US and Russia since there was speculation that Russia was involved in rigging the 2016 American presidential election. I don't want to get too political here (so I hope there are no comment wars!), but there's been a lot of investigations done on the subject, and a lot more that are still being done that we don't know about. As you said, most Russians are not spies/hackers/etc., so I try to learn about Russian language, history, culture, and everyday life so I can understand more about what life is like for normal people in a place that my country has stereotyped for a very long time. That being said, thank you for posting this video! Again, I don't know how much of all that current stuff you've heard about, but you didn't mention it in the video (maybe to avoid starting controversy?) so I just thought I'd explain a little in case you weren't aware.
Considering hes been here for years I'm confident he's not some hermit who walks around with earmuffs and blindfolded. Your response reminds me of a worried aging mother whose faculties arent quite all their anymore. всё будет в порядке, мама!
The life of a simple Russian family is not very rich with problems and joys. everything is simple and with English. ua-cam.com/channels/FFG4euAS7ZoAUYJFQETouA.htmlvideos
Talking about outhouse from the previous video there is another way Russians use a toilet. They use two sticks, one for holding while squatting and the other to fend off wolves.
When I was in graduate school in the US, I was the only American living in a group house with foreign students (mostly Germans). At one point, a post-grad student came from Russia to live in the house for a few months. I had a LARGE bottle of vodka (1.75 liters), and offered him some. He wound up drinking 1/4 of it, and after that got up as if nothing had happened. In my entire life, before or since, I have never seen anyone drink as much at one time .
Here is the channel of the bear that lives at the airfield. And it is actually a pet. This bear was saved by pilots when it was a baby ua-cam.com/channels/Bx231jNeUk4cUXc4lBdYpQ.html
A bear walks into a bar with open arms and an aggressive attitude. He shouts at the barman...... "I.....WILL..........HAVE......A..........LARGE.....VODKA......NOW........!!!!" The barman replies "What's with the big paws?"
Привет Федор! Could you do a video in which to explain the meaning of the word or expression ''фишка''? I've heard it a few times but didn't really get the meaning of it.
@@user-ty7re9yh6y Not really. The fact is that in Russians the word "фишка" is primarily associated with the word "feature", but since this word applies to both the subject and the person, "specialty" is much closer to the truth. In general, the definition of the word "chip" is a "a fun feature that makes a person / object unique".
Hey, you forgot good old fashioned Samogon (Самого́н). Proper homemade Samogon is, easily, cleaner and much stronger than any of that store-bought junk vodka. Once, in an emergency Grandpa fueled the car with it.
Haha, the bear stereotype might be more realistic in my state than in Russia(joke, but we have at least one bear pet here). Even more if it were wolves. In my state alone in the US, many people(by many, I mean a couple hundred) have wolves for pets. They're usually hybrids and are rarely let out of their owners' backyards because they're wild animals, but they're around.
) I am smiling while reflecting on the pictures of The red heat movie. Anything is not to be easy to change after such cool show of the Russian Zeitgeist of that particular time. Sorry.
Obviously not even 5% of Russians would have pet bears but some actually do and there's a lot of videos of Russians with bears. Even the fighter Khabib wrestled with bears when he was a kid.
People in Russia drink to party too. Also plenty of Russians drink a lot everyday. Swigs all day. Stay calm. Stay drunk. And anger with alcohol is a Western European idea. In Italy isn’t associated with anger. And less fights happen at bars simply bc the people simply believe it won’t cause madnesss. It’s crazy how cultural ideas influence how something will affect an individual. It’s placebo but also scientifically backed up in either case. Évidence exists supporting that alcohol causes rage and brings peace. It’s all what your told growing up
Some Italians don’t like that they are portrayed as the mafia in Hollywood movies. No one wants to watch movies about boring office workers and then they complain when it’s their cultures organized crime that is over represented.
When I was at the University of Maryland College Park this Russian graduate student showed up at one our our fraternity parties. I did not know the man. The University rules forbid hard alcohol at fraternity parties but we broke the rules all the time. Most people were drinking beer but this Russian went straight to the make shift bar we had in the kitchen and was taking shots of hard alcohol all night. I have never seen anyone drink like this before or ever since. This Russian could drink anyone under a table. In the morning one of our guys noticed there was water pouring from the ceiling into the living room so he went upstairs to see what was going on. He opened the bathroom and this same Russian was in the bathtub completely naked. The water was pouring over the side of the bathtub onto the floor and making it way to the living room. There was also human feces floating in the bathrub. This Russian's head was partially submerged but he was breathing. Our guy smacked this Russian in the head to wake him up which he did. He got up, put his cloths on and left the fraternity house never to be seen again. That is when I realized the Russians can out drink anyone on the planet.
@@ahlyae In Russia and Bulgaria adding an -ev or -ov to a name or word forms a family (last) name to mean "of or son of". The bear played a big role in Russian folklore and there is a rural area near Novgorod named Medved. Just think in English people have the last name Wolf or Fox, and Johnson is a popular last name - I've even heard the last name Wolfson before.
Well maybe just theoreticaly you could find such price in far away village couple hundred kms of more ore less civilized city. But in normal cities (where you are able to find work for example) I am pretty sure you won't find 1-bedroom for less than 300 dollars. In big cities like Moscow or Saint-Petersburg it starts from 450-500 for a small flat not in the best condition. 50 usd is a price for a night in a 2-3 star hotel or a steak in decent restaurant.
I dont know about all russian areas, but in the one I was at they will all say "slavs only please" which means white russians only. If you want to get an apartment for that cheap you will also not be making a lot, like 300 usd. And all of those areas are in commieblocks where everytime you look you get depressed, I know from experience.
I’ve have to say about that bear pet stereotype which I too found hilarious because I remembered when I was a kid you Russians domesticated a fucking fox
ua-cam.com/video/-GcP-asqXP4/v-deo.html For many Americans the first Russian that they ever saw for real were in these 1980's video conferences between the USSR and the USA. It was for me, I remember being shocked that Russians didn't look like that baddies from Red Dawn (I was 15). Before that, there was virtually zero contact stretching back decades - it's interesting to see how far we've come, how far we haven't and even that we're sliding backwards a bit. Breaking down stereotypes and increasing understanding is so important. Great video man, we can't go backwards!
Watch the Boris Badenov and Natasha Fetale on Rocky and his Fiend. They're spies but very funny and even somewhat likeable. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boris_natasha_fearless.jpg
I find it funny when he says "who" in English, says it as if it were spelled "ху" in Cyrillic. Just something interesting as Cyrillic doesn't have an "H". At least not Russian. So I can totally see them using "х" to spell "h" when showing phonetically how to say words. Like the sentence "I hate homework" being spelled "Ай хейт хомуэрк" or something to that effect. I don't know if they do this, but I do always wonder how schools in countries where the script their language is written in isn't Latin teach English phonetics to their students.
I hear you.. I was called a Russian and/or spy too, although I was not even born in Russia. It looks like they see me as "a little Russian". BTW, I am a Serb...
I disagree that any of these three stereotypes actually exist among people who have at least minimal intelligence (whatever that is! : ). Of course, this is from my perspective and my experience as an American living in the western US. In my opinion, and I do not mean to offend anyone, I think that anyone who actually believes any of those stereotypes is very poorly educated, or they really don't believe them and are just joking when they repeat them. And yes, I do believe that these stereotypes may also exist possibly and partly as a result of our American and Western politics. After all, we apparently have to label some country as our enemy, even if they are not an enemy in reality. All one has to do is think about it just a little bit in order to realize that every one of these stereotypes is absolutely ridiculous. Just my opinion, of course.
Russians maybe don’t a have a bear as a pet but after binge watching Russians interacting with bears on UA-cam I can confidently say that there is a soul to soul connection which no other nationality has with animals.
Tame bears were common in India, Nepal, Turkey, Romania and around the arctic circle, for example Russia with Sibiria and also in North American in the past centuries. We liked to eat bears in Switzerland and some still like to eat them today. Maybe you know our capital "Bern" (with a bear as the coat animal on the flag). There we have a bear pit, with several bears in it. And you know, some times one of them or a free living one is butchered and prepared for meal. Where I live there is even a still-existing 15th-century law that obliges to shoot free-living bears in the city. Maybe the prejudices about the criminality hang also together with the knowledge of the unique Russian profession of the "thief by law".😉
It´s not only Russia, but it´s also the Eastern European region in general. I guess the American propaganda works really well based on my experience, which was, by the way, the same.
Well: when I talk about heartless people in Finland, I never say "the Finns", but rather "people in Finland". Because I do not see major differences between Finns and Eastern Europeans: both are mostly violent drunks unable to socialize.
@@edgarm9767 not true ....we are very welcoming and kind people. That's just what people think but when you come, its different experience. Everybody says that after their visit. Kind of sad that you think that about certain group of people.
Lucia Bittner “we’re not violent drunks except that everyone who actually comes here says that..” LOL, wut??? So you’re not violent drunks except in the opinion of everyone who actually comes to visit??
Semechki, vodka, and angry people are the ones I hear. I love Vodka and Semechki and I am not Russian but love Russia and dealing with Russians. Many Russian people are sober and US media portrays Russians as drunks, criminals or FSB. I try to counter this whenever possible.
I was in Moscow a few years ago. We stopped in a souvenir shop and immediately after entering I noticed free vodka in shot size glass. We were all expected to have a shot. Can you imagine walking into a store in the U.S. and being given free shots of whiskey ? It’s easy to develop the stereotype of Russians affliction to vodka when they give it out at stores as complimentary drinks.
I don't know about bears, but two of my favorite UA-cam channels are a Russian couple with a pet cougar and a pet cheetah. 😂 I_am_puma ua-cam.com/channels/vph04Sh9CFKAw-gA6y-brQ.html . I_am_cheetah ua-cam.com/channels/3tXmqGNFRjstVvkJbmItoA.html
Lol I wouldn't be in high school if i was a half Russian spy or mafia and I'm sure my perents didn't raise me to think i was in a fantasy or a fairytale that having bears as pets is perfectly safe I would be dead by now if that actually happened.
Wait - you mean all Russian don't sing like this when they go out to a restaurant ? ua-cam.com/video/WonoP5EfUDU/v-deo.html&start_radio=1 I suppose when a director as good as David Cronenberg makes scenes like this you really believe it's authentic everyday Russians. I think the Russian "воры в законы" ( thieves in law ) trope kind of peaked in the last decade. David Cronenberg made the most memorable scenes in Eastern Promises ua-cam.com/video/RVckCYgnsAs/v-deo.html Actor Viggo Mortenson learned pretty good Russian to play this part. His Russian still wouldn't be good enough to convince these guys in the scene unless his story was that he grew up somewhere else and had a slight accent. Usually when you get "made" into a mafia like organization your people have to be purely Sicilian, Russian, East London or Belfast Irish or whatever criminal group you are joining.
Sounds like something a spy would say
Ha ha
Fedor is a double agent. Both MI6 and KGB spy
he is double spy
shit, someone wrote it before me :-/
Say Moose and Squirrel
I watched this video and remembered that today I had not fed my bear yet. I’ll go take my AK-47, rob someone to get food and vodka.
😂
Do not forget to spank a woman to death after insulting... I mean: charming her.
Of course that what I have said is pure bullshit and stereotype. Not even the few Russian girls with a brain and a heart that I have met told me about it.
Хахаха! I am curious what stereotypes exist about Americans in Russia. I have heard about so many, I wonder which are most popular. I know we are LOUD, for sure. We're all cowboys/cowgirls? Maybe spies, too? 😉 )))
Bad reality in Putins Paradise.
Off frame: Fedor recording this video while squatting in Adidas track pants.
LOL 😆 that's the Armenians I think!
Wayne Ojala as an Armenian learning Russian, I can assure you my squat is deep as fuck
(Also I have never heard the fact that Armenians are known for squatting.. thought it was mainly associated with Russians because of Slavic meme videos lol)
on a bear
A bear as a pet? Pffff, that's a nonsense, we like cats
*petting a siberian tiger*
ахахах)
Не плохо....не плохо
😭😭
In all fairness, when I lived in Russia, everyone thought I was a spy lol
In Russia, spy thinks he you!
Because you were
Excuse me. Are. You are a spy
You were surrounded by people who actually watch and believe Russian TV, it seems.. I do not think such people ar very smart or educated, if they believe propaganda spread by tv. Just my opinion
Правда
You forgot the "full adidas" stereotype. lol
IIIIIIS BORIS!!!!
@Sungindra Setiawan It’s not so, Russians can wear different clothes like adidas or other brands
Tripaloski?
My Russian girlfriend used vodka to cure and treat everything. Gargle, rub on chest, pour on wounds, party, unemployment, disinfectant, treat depression, commiserate with padrooga, etc.
She sounds fun
))) yes, we do
unemployment omg🤣🤣🤣
Well it works...
I live in a Ukrainian family and my grandmother puts a towel wet in vodka on my forehead to cure high temperature.
I like the way you explain stereotypes in a really polite and respectful way for both Russians and Americans
Heels on ground, Tovarisch found. Heels in sky, Western Spy.
*dont squat on ur spurs* yee yee
The idea that all Russians have pet bears always reminds me of the stereotype of ‘oh, you’re from Texas? So you live on a ranch, right? You have a few long horn cattle?’
No, lol, I live in the fourth largest city in the whole country
Yeah, but your city consists of single family houses build in the middle of ranch ;)
Because you live in a city built in the middle of a big ranch. And they keep cattle even downtown.
Of course we don't get bears just they breed very Of course we don't get bears just they are very well bred in our dogs like bulls in Texas 😜
They have Black folk in Texas you know?
Awesome video! I 'm Canadian, and we have our fair share of stereotypes too. People from florida believed me when I told them I drove a snowmobile to work every day :D
yes and have polar bear as a pet :) Im also Canadian
Well, you were talking to people from Flori-DUH...
You would if you could though eh.?
im from Louisiana...people think we have alligators as pets haha
LOL Stereotypes are stupid, but at least we can have a good time laughing at them xD
Do people actually believe the bear one? I always thought it as a joke, and I must say I find it amusing
There was a military Mascot in Russia that was a Bear.
That is where that comes from.
Count Dankula did a Mad Lads video about him... So COOL!
What you guys don't know is that after making this video, Fedor went backstage to drink vodka with his pet bear before writing a secret message to his spymasters in Moscow.
Hi, Fedor!
Unfortunately, here in America, there's a lot of controversy surrounding Russia now, even after the Cold War. I don't know how familiar you are with American current events, but there is a lot of tension surrounding the US and Russia since there was speculation that Russia was involved in rigging the 2016 American presidential election. I don't want to get too political here (so I hope there are no comment wars!), but there's been a lot of investigations done on the subject, and a lot more that are still being done that we don't know about. As you said, most Russians are not spies/hackers/etc., so I try to learn about Russian language, history, culture, and everyday life so I can understand more about what life is like for normal people in a place that my country has stereotyped for a very long time. That being said, thank you for posting this video! Again, I don't know how much of all that current stuff you've heard about, but you didn't mention it in the video (maybe to avoid starting controversy?) so I just thought I'd explain a little in case you weren't aware.
Considering hes been here for years I'm confident he's not some hermit who walks around with earmuffs and blindfolded. Your response reminds me of a worried aging mother whose faculties arent quite all their anymore.
всё будет в порядке, мама!
The life of a simple Russian family is not very rich with problems and joys. everything is simple and with English. ua-cam.com/channels/FFG4euAS7ZoAUYJFQETouA.htmlvideos
What about those squatting slavs?
Still existing in small cities or bad neighborhoods. In big cities almost extinct )
Гопники!
Медведи мои любимые домашние животные. Мой медведь пьет водку.
I know a person who have a bear as a pet. Also I saw little bear on the street when i was in st. Petersburg.
I've been called a Russian spy many many times хахаха
I’ve never heard this bear stereotype about Russians,
Though I have heard that about Alaska..
The usual Hollywood bs.....
Well: except the spy/killer thing, it is all basically true.
its super annoying ffs
I had drinks with a Russian once. He didn't drink vodka, he liked Jager
I am Canadian and some remote people have bears they guard the marijuana pot bears
Talking about outhouse from the previous video there is another way Russians use a toilet.
They use two sticks, one for holding while squatting and the other to fend off wolves.
When I say to someone I study Russian they frequently ask my if I scream when I should be speaking in Russian, I always get like -_-
Maybe this myth of pet bears have something to do with Tolstoy and the scene with the bear in War and Peace
That's something to watch
Bears as pets?
How unbearable 😨
Bears as pets. Lol. That's hilarious! I never thought that. Lol.
Every Russian has at least one Matruschka Puppet in his Apartment
4:19 Tough and Rough. Sounds like a charming guy lol
Some dogs are humongous that one might think it’s a bear.
Humongous what?
I dont know what he speaks about, but russians keep bears as pets because a bear is good in playing at the balalaika
When I was in graduate school in the US, I was the only American living in a group house with foreign students (mostly Germans). At one point, a post-grad student came from Russia to live in the house for a few months. I had a LARGE bottle of vodka (1.75 liters), and offered him some. He wound up drinking 1/4 of it, and after that got up as if nothing had happened. In my entire life, before or since, I have never seen anyone drink as much at one time .
Is it just me or does he look drunk off vodka pretending to not be a spy while hiding he’s pet bear in the garden
3:13 😂😂😂😂
Family guy says you all are bears riding on unicycles
“I am not a Russian spy”
Ye, that’s what a Russian spy would say!
We are on to you, Fedor!
Is there people that think that anyone would have a bear as a pet? For real?
3:45 Not only bears but bears playing balalaika ;)
Dude needs to see Alex Terrible wrestling the grizzly
To be fair every other russian movie from the 90's and early 2000's is about gangsters.
Older gentleman that was a friend of my family had a bear as a pet in northeast United States
Wait a second... So you're telling me that Russians aren't all bears on unicycles?
Here is the channel of the bear that lives at the airfield. And it is actually a pet. This bear was saved by pilots when it was a baby ua-cam.com/channels/Bx231jNeUk4cUXc4lBdYpQ.html
A bear walks into a bar with open arms and an aggressive attitude. He shouts at the barman...... "I.....WILL..........HAVE......A..........LARGE.....VODKA......NOW........!!!!"
The barman replies "What's with the big paws?"
Я очистил мои сомнения. Thanks mate !!
More correct to say "развеял сомнения" = dispelled my doubts
There is plenty of videos online with Russians and bears. Something other nationalities dont do))
Do you drive a JYAAAAAAGYOOOAAAAR?
Everyone knows the Baddies Drive Jags..
Привет Федор! Could you do a video in which to explain the meaning of the word or expression ''фишка''? I've heard it a few times but didn't really get the meaning of it.
"Фишка" is a specialty.
It's kinda like "salt" or "idea" in English
"You should hit it harder. That's the salt/idea"
"Бей сильнее. В этом фишка"
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Not really. The fact is that in Russians the word "фишка" is primarily associated with the word "feature", but since this word applies to both the subject and the person, "specialty" is much closer to the truth. In general, the definition of the word "chip" is a "a fun feature that makes a person / object unique".
@@Januarist you're not wrong. But my way of saying it is right too. I can confirm that, because I'm russian.
@@user-ty7re9yh6y Мог бы сразу сказать
Khabib ufc champ from dagestan had a bear pet lol.
I don't know how, but he speaks Russian with English accent, and English with Russian accent the same time!
Hey, you forgot good old fashioned Samogon (Самого́н). Proper homemade Samogon is, easily, cleaner and much stronger than any of that store-bought junk vodka. Once, in an emergency Grandpa fueled the car with it.
It depends on an individuals alcohol tolerance
Haha, the bear stereotype might be more realistic in my state than in Russia(joke, but we have at least one bear pet here). Even more if it were wolves.
In my state alone in the US, many people(by many, I mean a couple hundred) have wolves for pets. They're usually hybrids and are rarely let out of their owners' backyards because they're wild animals, but they're around.
I think the pet bear thing came as a testament to Russian hardiness.
where are you from ? The stereotype of Russians and their bears is widespread all over the world!
In the novel War and Peace rich and drunk Russian guys stole a bear and brought it home! It might have been a habit long ago
What about hardbass?
I'v always thought these stereotypes make Russians seem cool and interesting lol
*dumb intesfies*
Do anybody knows some good movie with Russians ?
Battle for Sevastopol.
Белый Тигр, 9 Рота
) I am smiling while reflecting on the pictures of The red heat movie. Anything is not to be easy to change after such cool show of the Russian Zeitgeist of that particular time. Sorry.
Hello everyone, let me give you a house tour, (bear growls) oh don’t mind him he’s just a bit silly at some times!
2:13 you forgot KVAASS
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Obviously not even 5% of Russians would have pet bears but some actually do and there's a lot of videos of Russians with bears. Even the fighter Khabib wrestled with bears when he was a kid.
Want his best American accent? 3:14
People in Russia drink to party too. Also plenty of Russians drink a lot everyday. Swigs all day. Stay calm. Stay drunk. And anger with alcohol is a Western European idea. In Italy isn’t associated with anger. And less fights happen at bars simply bc the people simply believe it won’t cause madnesss. It’s crazy how cultural ideas influence how something will affect an individual. It’s placebo but also scientifically backed up in either case. Évidence exists supporting that alcohol causes rage and brings peace. It’s all what your told growing up
Some Italians don’t like that they are portrayed as the mafia in Hollywood movies. No one wants to watch movies about boring office workers and then they complain when it’s their cultures organized crime that is over represented.
My family believed Russians were circus performers with bears on unicycles.
Canadians get POLAR Bears apparently?
I grew up and even now , people calling me things like that , and thinking it was funny when it's not cause it was annoying and bullshit.
When I was at the University of Maryland College Park this Russian graduate student showed up at one our our fraternity parties. I did not know the man. The University rules forbid hard alcohol at fraternity parties but we broke the rules all the time. Most people were drinking beer but this Russian went straight to the make shift bar we had in the kitchen and was taking shots of hard alcohol all night. I have never seen anyone drink like this before or ever since. This Russian could drink anyone under a table. In the morning one of our guys noticed there was water pouring from the ceiling into the living room so he went upstairs to see what was going on. He opened the bathroom and this same Russian was in the bathtub completely naked. The water was pouring over the side of the bathtub onto the floor and making it way to the living room. There was also human feces floating in the bathrub. This Russian's head was partially submerged but he was breathing. Our guy smacked this Russian in the head to wake him up which he did. He got up, put his cloths on and left the fraternity house never to be seen again. That is when I realized the Russians can out drink anyone on the planet.
Strereotyp 3 is LoL😂 Siberian bear
Bears as pet wow need heard that one
I’ve never heard the one about Russians keeping bears as pets. It’s pretty funny, and ridiculous at the same time. How do you say bear in Russian?
медведь (medved) and btw in Bulgarian it's мечка (mechka)
Christopher Guleff isn’t there this medvedev guy in russian politics, his name is literally bear.
@@ahlyae In Russia and Bulgaria adding an -ev or -ov to a name or word forms a family (last) name to mean "of or son of". The bear played a big role in Russian folklore and there is a rural area near Novgorod named Medved. Just think in English people have the last name Wolf or Fox, and Johnson is a popular last name - I've even heard the last name Wolfson before.
Besides the politician Dmitry Medvedev there is a famous Russian wrestler named Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved
Is it true you have one bedroom apartments for 50 us dollars a month? If so where? can Americans rent them that cheap?
Guess definitely not at the city centre of Moscow or St Petersburg
Well maybe just theoreticaly you could find such price in far away village couple hundred kms of more ore less civilized city. But in normal cities (where you are able to find work for example) I am pretty sure you won't find 1-bedroom for less than 300 dollars. In big cities like Moscow or Saint-Petersburg it starts from 450-500 for a small flat not in the best condition. 50 usd is a price for a night in a 2-3 star hotel or a steak in decent restaurant.
I dont know about all russian areas, but in the one I was at they will all say "slavs only please" which means white russians only. If you want to get an apartment for that cheap you will also not be making a lot, like 300 usd. And all of those areas are in commieblocks where everytime you look you get depressed, I know from experience.
I’ve have to say about that bear pet stereotype which I too found hilarious because I remembered when I was a kid you Russians domesticated a fucking fox
ua-cam.com/video/-GcP-asqXP4/v-deo.html For many Americans the first Russian that they ever saw for real were in these 1980's video conferences between the USSR and the USA. It was for me, I remember being shocked that Russians didn't look like that baddies from Red Dawn (I was 15). Before that, there was virtually zero contact stretching back decades - it's interesting to see how far we've come, how far we haven't and even that we're sliding backwards a bit. Breaking down stereotypes and increasing understanding is so important. Great video man, we can't go backwards!
I prefer Whisky over Vodka any day. And weed over whisky any day. And hash over weed every day
Watch the Boris Badenov and Natasha Fetale on Rocky and his Fiend. They're spies but very funny and even somewhat likeable. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boris_natasha_fearless.jpg
I find it funny when he says "who" in English, says it as if it were spelled "ху" in Cyrillic. Just something interesting as Cyrillic doesn't have an "H". At least not Russian. So I can totally see them using "х" to spell "h" when showing phonetically how to say words. Like the sentence "I hate homework" being spelled "Ай хейт хомуэрк" or something to that effect. I don't know if they do this, but I do always wonder how schools in countries where the script their language is written in isn't Latin teach English phonetics to their students.
What? х is h
I hear you.. I was called a Russian and/or spy too, although I was not even born in Russia. It looks like they see me as "a little Russian". BTW, I am a Serb...
Zeljko Simeunovic i’m partially Serbian and apparently look Russian to people that don’t know me lol.
there is people known if have bears as pets but not common but its known.... I don't know about your bear thing hahahaha
I disagree that any of these three stereotypes actually exist among people who have at least minimal intelligence (whatever that is! : ). Of course, this is from my perspective and my experience as an American living in the western US. In my opinion, and I do not mean to offend anyone, I think that anyone who actually believes any of those stereotypes is very poorly educated, or they really don't believe them and are just joking when they repeat them. And yes, I do believe that these stereotypes may also exist possibly and partly as a result of our American and Western politics. After all, we apparently have to label some country as our enemy, even if they are not an enemy in reality. All one has to do is think about it just a little bit in order to realize that every one of these stereotypes is absolutely ridiculous. Just my opinion, of course.
In Russia we NEVER make this heart jesture like Fedor does. This is how stereotypes are born!
Russians maybe don’t a have a bear as a pet but after binge watching Russians interacting with bears on UA-cam I can confidently say that there is a soul to soul connection which no other nationality has with animals.
So cute. Where are you from!
Tame bears were common in India, Nepal, Turkey, Romania and around the arctic circle, for example Russia with Sibiria and also in North American in the past centuries. We liked to eat bears in Switzerland and some still like to eat them today. Maybe you know our capital "Bern" (with a bear as the coat animal on the flag). There we have a bear pit, with several bears in it. And you know, some times one of them or a free living one is butchered and prepared for meal. Where I live there is even a still-existing 15th-century law that obliges to shoot free-living bears in the city.
Maybe the prejudices about the criminality hang also together with the knowledge of the unique Russian profession of the "thief by law".😉
It´s not only Russia, but it´s also the Eastern European region in general. I guess the American propaganda works really well based on my experience, which was, by the way, the same.
Well: when I talk about heartless people in Finland, I never say "the Finns", but rather "people in Finland". Because I do not see major differences between Finns and Eastern Europeans: both are mostly violent drunks unable to socialize.
@@edgarm9767 not true ....we are very welcoming and kind people. That's just what people think but when you come, its different experience. Everybody says that after their visit. Kind of sad that you think that about certain group of people.
Lucia Bittner “we’re not violent drunks except that everyone who actually comes here says that..” LOL, wut??? So you’re not violent drunks except in the opinion of everyone who actually comes to visit??
This is as true as Australians growing up wrestling crocodials.
Небольшая разница между водой и водкой
Semechki, vodka, and angry people are the ones I hear. I love Vodka and Semechki and I am not Russian but love Russia and dealing with Russians. Many Russian people are sober and US media portrays Russians as drunks, criminals or FSB. I try to counter this whenever possible.
I live among Russians in a prosperous country.
Try to explain to me the that most of them are not drunk.
Greetings
Funny, when own Russian state statistics report that every year there vanish a small 40 000 populated city due to alcohol related deaths.
I was in Moscow a few years ago. We stopped in a souvenir shop and immediately after entering I noticed free vodka in shot size glass. We were all expected to have a shot. Can you imagine walking into a store in the U.S. and being given free shots of whiskey ? It’s easy to develop the stereotype of Russians affliction to vodka when they give it out at stores as complimentary drinks.
precisely because it is a stereotype, many souvenir shops in rus use it
I spent 8 days in Russia last month and I didn't notice any of those myths. Ya lublo Russia.
I don't know about bears, but two of my favorite UA-cam channels are a Russian couple with a pet cougar and a pet cheetah. 😂 I_am_puma ua-cam.com/channels/vph04Sh9CFKAw-gA6y-brQ.html . I_am_cheetah ua-cam.com/channels/3tXmqGNFRjstVvkJbmItoA.html
You should watch RSS Slav, he's got a bear in a cage in a "You Slav You Lose" video.
Lol I wouldn't be in high school if i was a half Russian spy or mafia and I'm sure my perents didn't raise me to think i was in a fantasy or a fairytale that having bears as pets is perfectly safe I would be dead by now if that actually happened.
stereotype #4 they all rush B (no stop)
Wait - you mean all Russian don't sing like this when they go out to a restaurant ?
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I suppose when a director as good as David Cronenberg makes scenes like this you really believe it's authentic everyday Russians.
I think the Russian "воры в законы" ( thieves in law ) trope kind of peaked in the last decade. David Cronenberg made the most memorable scenes in Eastern Promises
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Actor Viggo Mortenson learned pretty good Russian to play this part. His Russian still wouldn't be good enough to convince these guys in the scene unless his story was that he grew up somewhere else and had a slight accent. Usually when you get "made" into a mafia like organization your people have to be purely Sicilian, Russian, East London or Belfast Irish or whatever criminal group you are joining.
The stereotype of russian people I see a lot is the Ice Skating athletes
"Not all Russians are spies"
I know. I don't think all of you are spies, I think you in particular, Fedor.