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This is a very western outlook. I recall reading that on the ISS, the American astronauts considered the Russian cosmonauts to be rude because they would pick out whatever food they wanted. Maybe apocryphal, and maybe not, but I - Russian, and born and raised there for ten years - have zero qualms about asking to take the last of something.


I, too, am Russian. Unless a mom or a grandma pushed the last of something onto someone’s plate, it would just sit there.


Weird, I wonder if it's more regional, or just completely disconnected from culture, and more of a family-by-family thing.




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