{"id":2297,"date":"2016-07-25T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:17:33","slug":"the-decency-of-the-russian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/the-decency-of-the-russian-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The decency of the Russian people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2298 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake-150x150.png\" alt=\"russian_american_handshake\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>There is a lot of current political talk about the embarrassing DNC e-mails and possible Russian \u2018hacking\u2019. Since I\u2019ve had a lot of personal and professional interactions with Russian culture and, in particular, Russian people, I feel obligated to share this important perspective with others for your edification. This is NOT my opinion on politics, just rather my experience.<\/p>\n<p>Let me briefly describe from which I will share my perspective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From a professional Russian perspective, I had worked with a Russian-headquartered company for roughly 4 \u00bd years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/moscow_march_2012\/\">visited Moscow one time in 2012<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From a personal Russian perspective, I got to meet many great and sincere friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to be honest that my initial, stereotypical, assumption was that Russian\u2019s would be war-mongering people from the former USSR. It\u2019s just a fact that my only previous Russian experience was\u00a0during the Cold War-era and maybe that\u2019s your experience as well if you\u2019ve not had a chance to interact with the Russian people directly. Whether this stereotype was true back in that era or not, I do not know. All I can speak of is my experience from 2011 until today.<\/p>\n<p>So let me just summarize, in my opinion, the Russian people themselves because a whole society should not be stereotyped based on the actions of a few. Imagine if every American was stereotyped based on American\u00a0leadership. The many Russian people I know are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice, considerate and eager to learn about other cultures<\/li>\n<li>Hard-working and extremely thorough to complete tasks<\/li>\n<li>Strong in their conviction and well-reasoned<\/li>\n<li>Love nature and the outdoors<\/li>\n<li>Likes to take care of business first, then small-talk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this modern-era of decisive politics, international and domestic unrest and a challenging economy, I share this personal perspective of the Russian people because they are people just like us. They care about others, they care about family and they work hard for the benefit of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m extremely grateful for my Russian friends.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks (\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0440\u044f),<\/p>\n<p>Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019ve had a lot of personal and professional interactions with Russian culture and, in particular, Russian people, I feel obligated to share this important perspective with others for your edification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[107,531],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends","tag-russian","tag-unity"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake-300x201.png",300,201,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",210,140,false],"coral-dark-medium-large-2x":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false],"coral-dark-large-2x":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/russian_american_handshake.png",444,297,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kevin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/author\/kneal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since I\u2019ve had a lot of personal and professional interactions with Russian culture and, in particular, Russian people, I feel obligated to share this important perspective with others for your edification.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13414,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/13414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}