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Abstract
In the Fall/Winter semester of 1991 (September-December) I gave two courses at Wesleyan University in the United States: "Ethnic Views of the World" in English and "The Russian Picture of the World" in Russian, for Russian-language majors. This was my first time in America and I was surprised by many things. I kept a personal record of my reflections and comparisons with our own situation. When I opened these diaries one year later, it struck me that they might also be of general interest. I offer here some fragments. I ask only that the reader keep in mind that each observation and each idea is but partial and momentary, and may even be erroneous, and that, on some other day, some other fact or some other idea might refute it. Even so, such a living process of comprehension has its value.