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Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people? |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Mon Mar 28 15:30:01 2005, in response to Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by brooklynQB on Mon Mar 28 13:10:01 2005. Not quite, but I do think that most U.S. residents are at least somewhat uncomfortable with interacting with other people. One way to solve that problem is to try to improve one's social skills; another way is to try to minimize one's interactions with others.Residents of large, dense cities, broadly speaking, take the first approach. Residents of suburbs and rural areas take the second. Perhaps that explains why NYC residents are often seen as rude by so many outsiders: they're simply not used to that level of interaction. If I stop in the middle of a subway staircase to open my umbrella without first checking if somebody's behind me, I'm the rude one -- not the person behind me who bumps into me or who shouts an obscenity in my general direction -- because I'm the one who failed to consider how my action would affect others. But to somebody who isn't used to being a part of a large crowd climbing a staircase, that sort of consideration isn't second nature. |
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