Stereotypes

I have spent a full week of my Russian trip that was loaded with lots of fun, adventure, challenges and painful goodbyes. Like any foreigner in a new city, before my arrival I got lots of advises about living there intelligently, learnt about certain differences in our culture and I am indebted to the people who gave me the advises.

But having spent a week in Russia, in the picturesque Krasnodar Krai certain stereotypes are already removed from my mind about Russia and I hope the same goes from their side as well. 

A few stereotypes that were removed from my mind are: Russian pipelines have vodka inside them and one would get gallons of vodka from kitchen tanks. Another stereotype that was removed is that Russian streets have bears running around on them. Everyone whom I encountered till now were very friendly to me so the stereotype that Russians lack international intelligence and cultural amalgamation got removed. 

The stereotypes that India is a country where cows are found roaming around on main streets in all cities, that all Indians don't eat beef, Indians cannot drink much alcohol, all Indians are vegetarians were all removed from the minds of the stereotypical people of Russia. Of course, I met awesome friendly and cool people from Russia who are going to be my friends for life who have helped me a lot in this foreign country.