My classmates and fellow students often ask me: How did you withstand the ravages of time? Like, for my age I look pretty young.
It’s nice to hear such compliments.
If someone is really interested, I’m ready to share some secrets.
Firstly, I don’t drink alcohol.
Nothing at all. Even …
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One of the Kazakh women was indignant that the statue of a young girl in the park of Astana is too frankly demonstrating a woman’s body. Another of our compatriots went even further and covered the statue with a handkerchief in order to hide the “shame”. The act of a man caused approval from a certain part of …
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The son of a Kazakh returned from his studies in England.
Father pestered him with questions. He is very interested in another’s life.
For example, I lived in a family …
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Almost every time I go to Astana’s public places, it ends with a psychological trauma. Every time I want to hang huge posters on the skyscrapers of the city:
“People! Be tactful and polite!
Do not jump the queue. Do not push people around. Do not stand close to the person standing in …
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Do you know who or what is the main enemy of our nation?
Foreign invaders?
No. Thank God, for the years of independence, not a single Kazakhstani has perished at the hands of the enemies.
Natural disasters and cataclysms?
…
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A woman and her adult son lived in a village. The son drank a lot, and because of that could not find a job or start a family. Nothing was going well with him.
One day a woman brought her son to the most respected elder in the village, a wise man, and asked him …
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A family of father, mother and two children is approaching me along the promenade. They are walking, loudly discussing something, gnawing seeds and throwing the husks to the ground at the same time.
I approach the head of the family, who is about my age, even, perhaps, younger, …
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Probably everyone has a friend who earns respect through touchiness and vindictiveness?
In relation to these people you can often hear something like “We must invite him to the birthday party, or he will be offended.”
And then at the party everyone …
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Strange metamorphosis occurs with some words.
For example, here is the harmless scientific word “Negro”. It always denoted the people of the Negroid race. This is not an insult or a compliment. Just a statement of fact. But some people thought that this word contains hidden discrimination, and …
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It turns out that people have already come up with a special term: RCS (reverse cultural shock). This is the feeling when you return from somewhere to your homeland and just fall out of the sediment with unaccustomed, or rather, from the “habit”.
Recently, I experienced this kind of RCS …
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