Men take off gloves before shaking hands to show respect rather than for cleanliness reasons

Shaking hands with your gloves off has nothing to do with cleanliness in fact. If we both have our gloves on, we would take them off before shaking hands. It's just our tradition and I don't know its roots... But it's not about hygiene for sure)

1 - We do have private houses. Many people even have apartment and a house in suburbs(called DACHA in russian, very unique Russian tradition) 2 - Yes, shaking hands in gloves is considered very rude. 3 - Steel doors are new thing in Russia, 20 years ago nobody had steel doors, all doors were wooden and covered from behind by noise-reducing material. 4 - Shaking hands is very common in Russia. Even when your hands are dirty, you offer your wrist or elbow to shake. And it is very rude not to shake hand, which is offered to you. You can get punched in face if you dont shake hand that is offered to you to shake. 5 - I didnt know that we talk to people standing very close to each other, until I went to the US. First months I were coming too close to people on the streets, when asking them something, they would take like three steps backwards ))) And I am not even Russian by ethnicity, I am Daghestani. And that's is another cool fact about Russia

Shaking hands without gloves is just obvious and polite thing to me. It`s not about cleanliness (never thought in that way) it`s just about manners. I thought, it`s a common and world-wide thing.

Russians do have houses

i would like to add: it it not common in Russia for a man to shake hands with a woman. But if woman give her hand to shake, it is not necessary for her to remove her glove. But man still has to remove his glove. I don't know origins of this habbit.

There was time when there was only single doors. They where wooden and often never closed. Everything changed in 1990s

Nice video! But we actually have private houses in Russia :)) It just depends on the city and district

It is true about the gloves, though I don`t know the reason of that custom. Some said that it was mean to show that there is no weapon hidden in your hand, "you have nothing to hide". But of course now it is just customary, symbolic. And funny enough - if you dont take off your glove without believable reason - it will be disrespectful. About private space - I would disagree - I can`t talk ot people nose to nose :) . I think that would be considered impolite, in general. The steel doors over the wooden door is rather modern thing and it is a precaution against thieves. Because wooden door is often opened inside - it can be relatively easy broken with a foot punch. On the other hand steel doors (more over - opening outside) are much harder to break with a kick. At least as I understand that.

We have private space. It's just very small for big city guys. But it's pretty large for country guys in the same time. It comes from that you need to get close to someone in the city to be heard by him and don't disturb guys around yelling to your friend "Hello!". Anyway, if you're uncomfortable when somebody is too close, nobody will mind if you say so and ask to give your space.

Taking off the glove is like taking off the hat - you don't need to do it and it serves no actual purpose, but you show that you made the extra effort to greet a person. You tell them that you respect them enough to do this extra thing of taking off the glove to shake hand with them the way it's traditionally done. I think if it's very cold outside or if people are working outside they would bother less, expecially if they see each other often, but for someone you see rarely you's still take off the glove.

About handshakes: they are more common in Russia than US/Canada. In US it's more of formal thing. You shake hands on an interview or when you strike a deal etc. In Russia all guys shake hands just to say "hi" and women don't shake hands. About gloves - shaking hands with gloves on is like saluting to the officer with popcorn in your hand - it's disrespectful, because you are too lazy to free your hands to give a proper greeting. Although sometimes when it's -30 it's so inconvenient to take off gloves, that you both can agree to "shake it winter style" with gloves on :)

remove glove - it comes from the tradition of knightly - you must show that your hand is nothing (no weapons or the glove can be toxic)

Do you find any relationship between talking and being in one's face and a desire on their part to assert themselves or convey their opinion?

Removing your gloves before a handshake is not specific to Russia, it is actually a part of traditional European etiquette. Having two pronouns for 'you' (which is called T-V distinction), is also by no means unique or even specific to Russian language. This phenomena occurs in every Romance language including French and Spanish, and also some Germanic, including German. In fact, T-V distinction was not common in Russian until XVIII century when it was borrowed from French.

Regarding hands shaking - You really don't have to worry about that that much, so to say) Because during winter time everbody understand it's not gonna be very pleasant to shake someone's hand when it is minus 30 or 40 degrees celsius or even 15 or 20 without a glove (depending on the moisture level in a region cause the bigger the moisture level the more a feel of frost increases, if you understand what I mean). So it doesn't matter if you don't take off your glove, someone can just joke it away sometimes, but if he/she knows you are a foreigner - no one will even notice that.

I think some things like talking too close to a person might be happening only to a foreigners, because some people need to hear better to understand each sound. But yes, i think usually we dont do this ) Also can be related to large noisy cities.

well before the handshake at the time of turning the palm upwards - to show that your hand is nothing

I was just looking up "what not to do" videos for different countries for holidays etc. Took me a minute to realise I was on an lds channel. Which was a funny little coincidence seeing I'm lds also.

I do not agree with what he said about the "personal bubble". I am not sure where this observation comes from.

Culturally in the West with the gloves aspect we'd just acknowledge with a head nod and so forth, we'd not extend a handshake as it would be somewhat rude to expect the other person to have to take off their glove, however it would be a rare situation as we don't wear gloves as its not cold enough. If we are ill we might refuse a handshake and say we didn't want to pass any germs.. which is more respectful than disrespectful.

shaking hands with your gloves on is more hygienic than with them off, it's just glove touching glove. Definitely got nothing to do with hygiene probably just a cultural thing!

OMG This is hillarious! Thank you for showing us who we really are xD xD xD...

Dude, I'm not sure if I could keep myself from leaning away if someone started talking inches away from my face.

Come on, everybody is different, if you were unlucky enough to talk to people with a very small personal space, that definitely doesn't mean, that everyone will do this. Personally, I prefer staying as far from the person I am speaking with as i can, still being polite. Pretty sure, some not Russian people have little to no boundaries in everyday conversations too.

They talk as in big cityes like Moscow or St. P. or Novosib. In village they may talk on a distance. In every country the same. In big cityes people talk closer, in a country less

Sorry, but what does it mean "Russians have not houses, they have appartements"? The funny statement. In big cities, actually, there are a lot of apartment buildings, but there are also areas of private houses. And there are small satellite towns around the big cities, where there is a lot of private houses also

hi. about gloves, we take off gloves to show our honesty in a handshake when we great someone. it is a millennium long tradition of old. if what my grandfather told me about ancient traditions is true then when warriors greated each other they took off their battlegloves to show that they are unarmed and that they trust and respect each other. now in modern days this tradition did not loose it's actuality, so when you offer your hand for a handshake to someone and he refuse to do the same, it will be considered as an insult, and if he offer his hand with gloves on it is considered as a sign of mistrust and disrespect as if saying *you are not worthy of me*. that is why we shake bare hands always, even if ones hands are dirty. for example if my right hand is dirty and I need to great someone with handshake then I offer my hand and tell *sorry my hand is dirty* and my opponent will decide for himself if he take my forearm, to not get dirty himself, or my hand regardless of dirt. it is the same way why we always take off our hats when we come inside someone's home or any other building. it is another millennium old ancient tradition, when warrior or any other man actually walk inside someone's home he took off his helmet and usually held it with both hands, meaning that his hands were full with helmet and that this newcomer is not going to attack owners of this house and at the same time by taking off his helmet warrior let owners know that he trust them enough to leave his head unguarded as if saying *I come with peace and I am at your mercy*. sadly not many people remember why we shake hands or take off hats or do other things, but we do it non the less for centuries and I will make shure to pass theese traditions to my children and grandchildren at the least.

That is a great mission you guys are carrying! People all over the world are quiet ignorant about the foreighn cultures. We should know each other by the means of Internet - less corrupted informational resource. Not by the TV news, imposing the official ideology! Just face to face. Don't let them fool you. I don't mind it's religious, though I'm agnostic. As long as the God doesn't want the money, but doing good things - I like such God.

Nice video :) Russia is a fascinating country and so is the Russian language!

Было очень интересно послушать мнение иностранцев о русских. Спасибо! Но перчатки мы снимаем, когда здороваемся, по другой причине))

Shakin hands with hands in the gloves is like entering a house wearing your heavy duty boots. Here in my country you can do that but always is a little bit rude. Here the normal thing is enter the house wearing your shoes you carry from outside, but is improper that shoes come dirty. Is hard to explain. Btw here we have 3 pronouns for 2nd person (like ты или вы) we use tu and usted but also vos and the 3 pronouns has their own conjugations. The weird thing is that here as example 'vos' has a denostative use but in argentina, our neighbour, 'vos' is a colloquial 2nd pronoun. Пока пока 🖖✌✌

It is impolite to shake hands in gloves. It is true.

To shake hands whiteout the gloves it is about respect not clearness