The most titilating thread ever.

[ChrisD(RJ)]

> One thing I really like about Russian culture is that people don't
segregate 
> themselves into age- or success-based groups. In the US, where everybody
is 
> supposed to follow a specific life plan (go to college, get a job, get a 
> promotion, get married, work on career, have children, retire), people
tend 
> only to associate with other people in their specific age/success bracket.


> In Russia, at discotheques, you will see groups of friends hanging out
with 
> age ranges of 16 to 60. <snip> 
> 
> It's just a much more humen culture. 
Do you suppose that's a Russian thing, a Soviet thing, or a little of both? 
Jacob Conrad 
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Both. In the USSR, most people were hardly worried about career-building. In
post-Soviet Russia, age, and education for that matter, do not correspond
with social status (except that, if you are old, you are likely very, very
poor). So there's little incentive to identify with one's own age cohort.