Russian Girls in Barcelona
It had been my experience as well that the Russian girls are really high-quality women. Even ones that grab you by their looks, when you talk to them, are very well read, and many of them have an artistic talent, like they play the piano, or ballet.
I have not mixed much with Russian girls before my last trip to Barcelona. But honestly, I am impressed with both their looks, and their level of education.
They have a thing though where they are very direct, more blatantly honest than I am used to. As in, they will tell you the truth, rather than deal with it in the politically correct way.
Things like : "Your Russian is really bad". They say it, as if it's not a big deal, and I am not culturally used to that. LOL
Contempt for everything conventional
[QUOTE=Prosal;1328933]There is a deep feeling, specifically Russian, of contempt for everything conventional, for everything that most Western people consider as "good" (in a moral sense),"reasonable" or "politically correct".[/QUOTE]This is an interesting quirk of EE behavior. When well educated EE's are initially thrown into Western society, it is shocking how they are almost disgusted by the culture of the well educated and there specific cliques. Yet, with time, as they slowly assimilate into those groups, the social circles that once made them comfortable in the beginning become low class and beneath them. Very weird, but saw it many times.