>"serious people are the rulers, because if you do stupid crazy things you are dead" over thousands of years that forge a culture.
This is the pinnacle of all the BS political mythology in this thread. Stalin and his best friend Rasputin would so totally impale you for smiling.
Re:Why Russians Are Not Smiling (2011)
by underwater on Monday November 18, 2013 @02:47PM
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Did you read the article?
Re:Why Russians Are Not Smiling (2011)
by forgottenpaswrd on Monday November 18, 2013 @02:52PM
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Yes.
The article talks about the fact, I create an hypothesis about the reason.
When you travel the world you see there is a correspondence between seriousness and weather. You go to Brasil and the South is way more serious than the North. In Europe-North America it is the opposite, as they are in a different hemisphere.
Russia is so big, and yet so ugly. I took the transsiberian train and it was so boring. In 40kms of Chile you see more than in 3000 of transsiberian. In Winter there is no light, and no color(snow everywhere).
When you travel to places where the sun shines all year long you find that everybody smiles so much. You go to Bali, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, kenia, Nigeria, all people smile all the time.
Boston, New York,Seattle, Germany, they are in the middle-upper scale of seriousness. Miami, California, less serious.