I am a photographer and journalist and I had my first assignment in Russia. I was pretty amazed at how educated and cultured the people were in Moscow. They dressed dressed very well and most spoke excellent English. In Canada and the United States and I am so used to seeing so many slobs... not everyone of course, but way too many in comparison to other countries. We have a severely overweight population with a lot of people who lost their class. Sweat pants, t-shits, supersized sized drinks and food, and a lot of people who are no longer that educated or intelligent. It is not just Russia that shocked me, but other parts of Europe that I have been to also has so much more class than we do. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of great people in North America, I am just seeing a comparatively large decline here.