Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
I have to say that in my experience, Americans are far less tolerant of foreigners than Russians, also. In the US, lots of people get annoyed if you don't speak English right. Not ALL people, of course. Just the ignorant ones.

But when I lived in Russia (for two years) no one ever made fun of my (very poor!) Russian. At least, not to my face!
No wonder. You are American. I think if you were Turkish, Armenian, Georgian or Tajik, you would have felt the difference. Not everything is so cloudless here also. You shouldn't idealize Russia. There are people everywhere. And they are different.