National stereotypes

A nation is a group of people who share common history and usually a language and usually, but not always, live in the same area. Culture can be described as our everyday life: how we communicate, what makes us happy and said. It also includes our language, religion, traditions, behavior, way of life – in other words, what we do each day. People that belong to various nations may differ and they always differ from one another.

Most people on earth have no idea about Armenia, not even stereotypes.

That said, the biggest mistaken assumption I see: Armenians == Armenia. Not so. Armenians are, at this point, spread all over the world. Most of us have their roots in places in historic Armenia that are now parts of other modern countries. Others have lived in other countries for a few centuries. So the modern Republic of Armenia, successor state to Soviet Armenia, does not represent them nor do they represent it. Our Armenia is a very small country in terms of territory and in terms of population - 2M people. Most Armenians have never visited it and will never visit it.

Here are some true facts about Armenia:

— Armenia has a solid software sector and startup ecosystem.

— Armenia has a few climactic zones but all are really cold in the winter.

— Modern Armenia is new but Yerevan is older than Rome.

— There are flights between Yerevan and Istanbul every day.

— Armenia is much poorer and more corrupt than it should be.

— Armenia is very very safe.

The Germans are regarded as scientifically-minded and industrious, they're always considered solid, intelligent and mathematical. And, for instance, Israeli are believed to be mercenary, industrious, shrewd, loyal to family, religious. There is a big amount of examples we can list about national character of different people. Proving the difference of the national stereotypes I want to compare Russian and English nations. There are a lot of features that vary. The Russians are industrious, tough, brave, progressive and suspicious. They are always considered to be nationalistic, over - patriotic (because of this reason they're good soldiers), we are willing to respect opinion of other people.

Speaking about Englishmen I may note that they're reserved, tradition-loving, courteous, honest, extremely nationalistic and etc. To my mind, they have a specific sense of humor. They say that they can't understand our jokes and anecdotes not only because of the different meanings of the words, but because of their humor is more delicate. Looking at these features of the Russians and the Englishmen it is not hard to mark out the differences. The Englishmen are reserved, but the Russians are open-hearted and communicative. The Englishmen are tradition-loving and the Russians, to my mind, don't keep their traditions in such a degree. There is a great majority of factors that influence the nations stereotype and its people's character. People that live in the southern countries have less problems than those who live in the North and because of this they're more cheerful and artistic. The history also has a great influence on the national character. The peoples in Asia are revengeful because their forefathers often were at war with others. In Africa many countries were colonies of the Great Britain, Holland, Spain and so on and they (Africans) were the slaves and because of this they're still hard-working and industrious. The National Character exists. It is not a myth, it's a reality. But the National Character doesn't describe the character of every person, it describes the character of people of nation in general. Every person has its own character, but according to the person's belonging to some nation many traits of character are similar and these features may be explained as the national character.