Russia through the prism of British mentality

Karen Hewitt wrote a nice book for Russian readers, which must help them to understand behavior and national features of Englishman’s. In a course of narration she constantly compares English and Russians characteristics. From my point of view sometimes assessments that she give to Russians are not quite fair. I believe that in this book Russia described through the prism of British mentality. Let’s try to revise some of them and look on them in a little other side.
For the beginning let’s start with third part and chapter two, topic about divorce. Karen Hewitt starting with the example of Russians woman words: “There are too few educated man around and too many alcoholics!”