THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPLIMENTS IN THE BRITISH AND RUSSIAN CULTURES
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The article discussed the different cultural notions of British and Russian attitude towards compliments, there was a discussion on the topic of how people from two particular ethnic groups react to the giving and receiving compliments.There were presented examples on each type or category of the compliments, alongside with the general summary of the compliments, the summarized information was collected from the myriads of examples from the books, the internet resources and polls.
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From, the table it is quite obvious that the main compliments addressed by English people are compliments on the appearance, mental abilities and personal traits. One thing that stands out from the table is that in the Russian culture the number of compliments given in percentage is higher in every column.