‘Don’t smile at your students for at least a couple years so that they know you’re a strict teacher and they behave themselves. That’s the tip I got from an experienced professor. Do I follow it? – No. Do I struggle with discipline problems in the classroom? – Never.

Why don’t people smile in Russia? Here a smile can be perceived as a sign of being childish, light-minded and permissive. A bad day or bad teeth might be the reasons. The major one though is the unwillingness to be nice to others especially if those ‘others’ are strangers like your customers. Absence of service industry is another story.

So shop assistants, bank clerks, post office staff, insurance or travel agents, teachers, all in all the majority of people even in personal situations, try not to smile. Serious faces in pictures, when getting presents or listening to a compliment.

To me a smile expresses politeness, readiness to help and a general positive attitude. It’s ‘contagious’ too. Being nice to people often leads them to being nice to you. A smile helps you and others feel at ease. It just makes a lot of things easier which is crucial for Russia (and not only it) nowadays.

SMILE! You’re being looked at.

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