A lot of
people don’t see any difference between Russia and Belarus. Even Russian and
Belorussian prefer to think, that these two nations almost do not differ. Why?
Because Belarus has got two national languages – Russian and Belorussian, while the
greater part of our people prefer to speak the language of the big neighbor. We
look identically, we have the same customs, we talk and think in the same way.
BUT! To be honest we, Belorussians, are not pale imitators – we are nation with
a great history, with our victories and fails. We have got our own positive and
negative features. In this article I’m going to make a list of several
significant differences between Russian and Belorussian.
1.
Belorussians are more careful to nature and environment. Our country is cleaner
then Russia. You won’t see such a horrible amount of garbage like in Russia.
2.
Belorussians are less prone to crime. We have maniacs, bandits, thieves, like all
do, but, in whole, the number of crimes is significantly less.
3. We are
cautious. That is why our people are scared of making rude offenses. It doesn’t
mean that we are very law-abiding. It means that we are more afraid of
punishment. So our criminal guys do their business quietly, without showing off.
4. We
produce more quality products. That is not because of we are so honest and
responsible. We have very hard governmental control. And our level of
corruption is enough low to prevent
truly examination of quality of food, clothing and etc.
5. We don’t
like to work, but we do. If Russian isn’t set up to work, you won’t coerce him
even by force. But our man under pressure can built Chinese Wall Belorussian
edition.
6. We like
alcohol, but we have some kind of culture in drinking. Unruly and crazy drunk
Belorussian is likely exception. Belorussian prefers to laugh, to sing different
drinking songs or to mourn, to talk about hard life. Russians sometimes behave
like psychos: fights, rude sex, crime and etc. But for us, this is not about
us.
7. Belorussians
are conservative. Our people don’t like strange fashion, gay parades, binge
rockers and all that. Only progressive youth refers to this as neutral or
positive. And mature generation can’t still understand young couples living
without marriage. Actually we don’t like changes. That is why new social trends
are spread slowly.
8. We are
tolerant in questions of faith. We can scare, misunderstand another faith, but
we try not to judge people with different world outlook.
9. Our country
represents less other nationalities. Nationalists with proud say that our
nation is more pure, despite of the fact that we don’t hate other nations, like
Russian do.
10. We
don’t have an idea of world Domination. And in general our position isn’t so
active. Russia has a lot of social active people, who doesn’t care. In Belarus
people prefer not to stand out and live quite measured life.
