My one (Russian) friend and I were talking about how a lot of Slavs don't like Americans because they're fake, and he said that he didn't find them fake at all, but they take a little getting used to.
"I've had some people tell me that you never can tell what an American is thinking," I was like, "but on the other hand with Slavs you always know how someone is feeling, what you see is what you get."
"But there's a downside to that, too," he was like, and he began to explain how growing up he would go to a store or a government bureau and he would stand there and have to anticipate how the woman was feeling today, would she do her job or would you have to do something to try to get her to do her job, but if you tried that last part and it didn't fit her mood, would that make her even less likely to do her job.
"Come on, man," he was like, "Just do your fucking job! It shouldn't matter how she feels that day."
He then said that it took him 3 years of living in the U.S. to realize he was accustomed to playing these "mind games".
"I didn't even realize they were mind games," he was like. "That was just how things were."
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