As you can infer from previous posts, the Czech people are not the friendliest. My students are all great. They’re warm and friendly and open. But the general attitude on the street is icy.
The people living in our apartment building are also… less than friendly… Especially the people living directly below us. I haven’t been here for this, but, three times in the last month and a half, my roommates have been yelled at for making too much noise. Granted, once was a party, but another time, they were playing charades. Charades! That’s a silent game. And the women came up and started screaming at my roommate in Czech.
So, my one roommate, Ruth, has been yelled at by this woman on three separate occasions. But, if Ruth is ever coming up to the front door to the apartment, and the lady that lives below us happens to be leaving the building, and Ruth grabs the open door and walks in, the lady will flip out, and yell at her, asking Ruth if she lives here. “I’m sorry. Remember me? You’ve certainly yelled in my face enough. I live above you…”
Everyone just seems to be a little on edge and suspicious of others. Which prompted us to ask the question, “Where do these people come from?”
Ruth’s reply: They come from Communism.
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If they come from Communism, doesn't that mean that they share everything with everyone and smile all the time?
No, it means that, up until twenty years ago, they lived under a crushing dictatorship. Oh, and before that, it was Nazis...
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