A Russian on America

[quem98.livejournal.com]

In Russia, I did a research project about Russian views on the United States. I interviewed 25 Russian who had lived, worked, or studies in the US for some time and asked them for their results. Below, I have posted two of my favorite questionairres translated from the Russian (I can dig the originals up.. They'fre on a disk somewhere) I thought that considering the comments that were being posted on a recent entry, it would be of more than passing interest to people.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/quem98/49661.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/quem98/48948.html

I dunno. I found them fascinating.

Comments

[jillykillroy.livejournal.com]

Do you have more?!

[quem98.livejournal.com]

Yes... Not all of them are that interesting, though. When I can dig up the disk I saved them on, I will post them.

[jillykillroy.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in reading several of them, just to get a broader view... I think the whole thing is pretty interesting. Thanks!

[svl.livejournal.com]

Interesting:)
My opinion on Americans is different, of course:)

[quem98.livejournal.com]

Feel free to post your own answers to this questionairre in English or Russian... I plan on Continuing my research in Grad school in my Masters' dissertation.

[kathleenru.livejournal.com]

O, I haven't read those yet - I will when a little more time. Very interesting! And I liked SO much your comment about living in Russia!!! (http://www.livejournal.com/community/learn_russian/54371.html?replyto=498531)
I sent it to my friend from the UK, who's been struggling at learning Russian for the last 4 years. He's been to Moscow & StPetersburg a few times & every time he found Russia strange & incredible but wonderful...
Do you have any more notes like that please? Would be great to learn what people think about my home country! :-)

[quem98.livejournal.com]

My LJ from June 2002- May 2003 was basically a log of my experiences abroad...

I started keeping this journal specifially so my friends could see what I was up to while abroad.

In short, TONS.

[kathleenru.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot! :-) I saw a few posts about living in Russia in your LJ but didn't know where to begin reading. Will start soon. Thank u again :-)

[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

Interesting topic... I was considering looking at something like this for my Year Abroad project, but I'm English and Russians tend to know more about/visit the US more than the UK. I suppose it might be a bit harder to find suitable respondents is all... The attitudes of Russians to 'the West' and vice versa make for interesting reading though, if you find the others please post em!

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing, things like that are always great to read!

The best I can share in that category was my teacher's obession with jeans, and how when she first came to the states that she thought all Americans were rich, since they were willing to sit on the ground in their jeans!

[aixyhpsa.livejournal.com]

Extremely interesting, I would love to read anything else you have in your logs.

[sergernewbie.livejournal.com]

I loved reading these!