No, I’m not talking about global villains like Dracula or Putin. I am referring to ordinary citizens, perhaps quite decent and law-abiding, but committing inexplicable actions for me.
Here in the supermarket, a handsome man with a cart full of food, stops in a narrow aisle and picks melons for a long time. He touches one, the other. Smells, snaps. …
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I don’t believe in superstitions.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out how three grams of saliva fired over my left shoulder can change the trajectory of a brick that should fall on my head around the corner.
What is the connection between them?!
Or what kind of trouble can my grandmother bring me with empty buckets, unless …
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My friend’s son studies at one of the Czech universities.
Recently she went to visit him. She decided to lavish her son’s classmates, mostly Czechs, with Kazakh national dishes, and served a dinner in the dormitory. Before the feast, the son suddenly said to his mother: “Mom, just do not pull your handbag …
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Recently, I have noticed such a phenomenon: at Russian-speaking business events, entrepreneurs from Russia often address unfamiliar people as “ты” (informal “you”). Participants from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries experience cultural shock from this. In these countries, it is customary to address unfamiliar people, even younger ones, as “Вы” (formal “you”). Furthermore, after getting acquainted, even older individuals …
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With fear I am waiting for the moment when young people begin to annoy me, when their music seems to be stupid, outfits are tasteless, mores are loose; when I catch myself thinking that earlier the grass was greener, and the water was wetter.
Some of my peers have already started to express such suspicions. However, it has not touched …
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Ali was born into a poor family. He remembered since childhood, as his parents lived in a rented apartments and barely making ends meet. He also remembered how his father and mother had waited in fear for the rent to be paid every first day of the month, how they had hated the landlord, called him a blood-sucker and a …
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(the text is exclusively for men; do not read to women).
Many men consider women to be cunning, insidious, fickle, capricious.
It is difficult for men to understand the psychology of a woman simply because they have never been in their place and have not looked at the world around them through their eyes.
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I consider myself a citizen with an active life position, always expressing my point of view on important social issues, and stating my position. If I don’t like something, I fight against it, if I like it, I support it. My friends don’t always understand me, they ask: “Why do you need this? Why do you spend so much energy, …
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What is a title nation?
This is a nation that gave the name to our state, and this nation, whose language and culture are considered to be the main ones in our country, determine its originality among other countries of the world.
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I often see closing stores, restaurants, cafes, and hair salons in the city. I genuinely feel sorry for the owners of these businesses, who undoubtedly suffered huge losses. When I think about such bankrupt companies on the scale of the country, my heart bleeds. How many resources, money, and efforts were spent in vain? No one will reimburse these businessmen …
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