Well put. Fatalism and melancholy are great descriptions of it. One such interesting culture clash happened when the Soviets went to Cuba to shoot https://en.w

Well put. Fatalism and melancholy are great descriptions of it. One such interesting culture clash happened when the Soviets went to Cuba to shoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba. A beautiful movie, fantastic cinematography by Kalatozov, but the Cubans just never liked it. The portrayal of Cubans is very much what Russians thought Cubans might be like, as opposed to how Cubans see themselves.