Am I the only one who care about others.. I live in NYC. People in cities such as NYC are even worse. Kindess and please and thank you would be a beginning. Honking when your crossing the street when the light is green for one to make you move faster so they are turn. Honking me because I ride by bicycle near the curb where I am supposed to. Best way to get around but its dangerous, very.
2006-07-21 02:45:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
Parents no longer teach manners, so children no longer learn manners. Courtesy is dead.
2006-07-21 02:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a sign of the times, kids are not raised the same, there are several reasons. I live in NC, and most people are polite and nice, older ones, anyway. People are always in such a hurry, why don't they leave sooner? There's no such thing as doing the speed limit, you have to go faster. I went to see my daughter one day at her job in a pharmacy chain, and she was helping a customer and she had to ask the woman her name twice, she was being very nice to her and smiled at her and when my daughter turned her back to go get her prescription, the woman made an ugly face at her and rolled her eyes and just had this disgusted look. It was all I could do to not say something to her, I wanted to tell her to give someone a break and to quit acting like a child. Some people are just plain mean with no conscious. I don't understand it. I TRY to treat people the way I would like to be treated.
2006-07-21 02:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by lfwtea3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all comes back to one thing. Parenting. How are kids raised these days? Parents have, by and large, abandoned their kids to the tv or video games, and we all know they see there Total disregard for anybody or anything. Manners are something that is old fashioned and something to be laughed at. I remember what my dad did the first time he heard me curse in front of my mom. He took me outside and made it clear that cursing was something that men did when they were amongst themselves and he never wanted to hear me curse in front of a woman again. To this day, I watch my language when I am around women. Seems silly when little teenage girls use language that would make a sailor blush. But it's what I was taught when I was young and it stuck. The good news is there are good kids out there. I know because I have a couple of them.
2006-07-21 03:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by Knowitall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Manners On Moving Up by Julie Yap Daza =)
Manners shows how considerate you are to others. In my place, people still show some manners. It doesn't matter if you're educated or not.. It's innate in some, and non existent in others. It starts when we were little, the way people are brought up have great effect on how we become as a person afterwards.
2006-07-21 03:20:57 · answer #4 · answered by rmparras 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think part of it has to do with where you live. I currently reside in medium sized town in the middle of Missouri. We still say please and thank you; even if you don't know someone, you ask how their day is going. But I have noticed that the younger generation (granted I am only 21) has almost no manners. I used to work in retail and food service and kids these days are so very, very rude. They get away with things my parents would have smacked me up side the head for. I think it also has to do with how you were raised, and what culture you come from. (My family is British/West Indian working class and strongly enforce all aspects of manners and etiquette.)
2006-07-21 02:53:54 · answer #5 · answered by Spex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different cities have different livestyle. NYC is a very diverse place, lots of immigrants from developing and 3rd world countries, majority of them don't have good manners. Many people are on tight schedule as well and the worst are those taxi drivers, they honk you all the time.
2006-07-21 02:51:05 · answer #6 · answered by 2feEThigh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They went out the window once people stopped disciplining their children. I am not saying that kids need to be spanked, but they should be taught respect for their elders like I was when growing up. For the past ten years nobody seems to care how their kids behave and especially how they behave. This whole manner revoltion I believe has led to that "I don't care" attitude all over that you and the rest of us experience far too often. Anyway, be careful on your bike, and good luck!
2006-07-21 02:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by Scott B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I spent maximum of my life in the huge city too, hated it! basically such as you, I certainly have manners, and admire for others, i'm in no hurry to get someplace the place i won't have the ability to stop for an previous guy crossing the line. I now stay in the rustic, and enable me inform you, human beings grant you their spot in line on the grocers in case you have one merchandise and that they have got a cart... now and back 2 or 3 distinctive human beings enable you to circulate forward. Blinkers are almost continuously used, and in case you wave somebody on, they smile and wave back at ya. i've got not at all been so chuffed, and in this variety of comfortable ecosystem almost all the time.
2016-10-08 04:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Detroit and everything is the same as you said. People honk their horns excessivly and I never hear please or thank you. You would think people in urban places would care about people more since they are around people more often. If you go out in the country, often people will be a lot nicer ive found.
2006-07-21 02:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by Nick Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Troy got it right. Everyone is so self-important and in such a big hurry. No one cares about anyone else. Society is deteriorating rapidly.
2006-07-21 02:50:10 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. Quest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been to New York several times ( i used to live in Jersey ) and they have no manners... most of them, anyway! They can be very rude and they'll tell you what they think about you right to your face. But that's just how they are!
Manners, along with gentleman and chivalry, are gone. There's no hope for mankind.
2006-07-21 02:49:42 · answer #11 · answered by Kathy S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋