How do I know residents of the former USSR abroad

You have been the case that in some shops abroad, our compatriots have identified and immediately began to talk to you in Russian? And it is this shocking, our ability to identify "their". You have not even opened my mouth! How did he have determined from the crowd? You're dressed very European and behave differently. We have a special gift, and it is not for the clothes, burnt skin on vacation or love for alcohol. No, there are other reasons for and about them is written in great Snob magazine.

Below you'll find six major hypotheses "connectedness" of Russian and post-Soviet people who see each other no matter what.

1. The post-Soviet man, when he is on vacation outside postsovka, least of all wants to meet fellow. The logic is clear: their home and all around complete. Well, if you went somewhere, and there all his means, something you nedouchel, has got a total bait, can not boast of how to return. At the sight of another Russian, almost every one of us instinctively builds grimace: Well, I thought, I'm the only one unique, experienced, resourceful, strayed from the flock. Well, this grimace, of course, makes the final recognition.

2. Gregariousness. In the age of booking.com, TripAdvisor and anywayanyday we continue to buy tours to agencies. Not necessarily the packet, no matter how "individual" - various travel agencies still send travelers in the same place, the owners of which lure our agents and operators. Extremely rare tourism professionals, which has got to come up with fancy some unusual routes and set needed for their retail communication - and this little business sense. As a result, "our" anywhere, where to send the travel agency is always enough to provide a contrast with the rest of the travelers, the recognition and the associated discomfort (see. P. 1).

3. post-man gait. Perhaps the closest analogue of it - pimp walk from the African-American disadvantaged areas. Plastic or wolf from "Well, wait a minute!". Feet of our man in every way demonstrate his confidence. Advancing, if he does not radiate danger (to do most of us do not have enough muscle mass), it sends a clear signal: my finger in your mouth not put, fool me not even try. Even the clerk, even scared to say so hipster tries to walk, he feels coming from an alien threat to the environment. I must say that the post-Soviet gait not only instantly recognizable, but it seems to provoke all sorts of crooks and street vendors unnecessary things: these guys are all in the life of the species and take call.

4. Photographic habits. The Russian pair, who had come to rest, the man is almost always responsible for the camera. He knows all of its settings, and flaunts this knowledge, especially in front of his girlfriend. Perhaps she, too, can shoot, it is likely that the best of his men, but did not show it, but on the contrary, It is pretending that confuses buttons - she brought up: no need to create a man's complex, for it then have pay. It is better to take the flirty poses to portray a mermaid build cute faces, pulling lips - except the post-Soviet women, this does not make more than one. This behavior is dictated by the popularity of services like "classmates". Pictures such as "I am against the backdrop of the Colosseum" or "I bathe in a waterfall" - a mandatory genre, part of our unique national culture. And yes, the photos in the hotel, which can be shown to relatives and colleagues - is also ours, as we said in our semi-Asiatic nature. At the same time with the Chinese, who are also well removed, post-Soviet people would not be confused.

5. Turretless. If your eyes, someone jumped from the rock on which to climb and something forbidden - it is our people. Actually, in one Asian national park I met a sign that read in English Do Not Climb the Rocks - and below, in Russian: "Do not jump off the rocks." At heart, we despise not only the rules, but also the danger, and his very life. In addition, we are working so much and in such an acidic environment, which has ceased to notice this most everyday manifestations turretless in their own countries. Abroad, they can be seen: we make reckless actions routinely. And not only run the risk of life or get drunk as a pig, but also to buy some extravagant objects on the last of his money, to then dragged them home or to get a couple of weeks parcel, puzzled looking at acquisition: it is me because tsepanul? Why do I need this?

6. excessive mimicry. Who in the nightclub - any orientation - best corresponds to its dress code? Who diligently avoids all the main tourist route, but occurs in places, "authenticity" which is painted in easily being found "by Yandex" texts experienced Russian? Who abroad read English books, turning the pages too slow for an American or an Englishman? Who, by wine, try it on all the rules, spinning glass and long raznyuhivaya bouquet? Ours, of course, our people, infinitely dear and reminiscent of James Bond from a joke: the parachute dragging spy around the Arbat.