I live near NYC and I have noticed so many people Spit in public. Most if not all the culprits are in lower class neighborhoods. Has spiting in public become a fashion statement or is there something else going on?
2007-03-21 16:18:25 · 22 answers · asked by tkessandoh 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
trashy is as trashy does I guess, pretty nasty when you figure that Tuberculosis lives on the sidewalk in spit for up to 17 days.
2007-03-21 16:21:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are in NYC, how is it that you know the spitters are from the lower class neighborhoods? There are many different classes of communities there. People have been spitting for centuries. It's nothing new. I never heard of it being a fashion statement though. If they are truly from the lower class neighborhoods as you say, maybe they spit more because they are around more pollution then the " not so lower class " people. Just a thought.
2007-03-21 23:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by aintnobeans 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you doing in the lower class neighborhoods? Spitting is disgusting and gross and I am sure that rich people as well as poor people have spit at one time or another.
2007-03-21 23:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by mom of twins 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but I see it here in San Diego very frequently too. I wouldn't say it's only in lower SES areas. Perhaps it has to do with the acceptability of spitting in other cultures? NYC and San Diego have a high immigrant population. Maybe it's just acceptable in their culture?
Not the most sanitary habit, but I see it all of the time.
2007-03-22 00:50:34 · answer #4 · answered by SDTerp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is simply a case of parents not teaching their children the basics of civil behavior. Usually, this happens in families where the parents themselves were never taught the correct way to behave and so it becomes a generational problem.
It is the same reason why people try to crowd onto an elevator the second the door opens without allowing passengers to exit first.
Social idiots.
This is why we ought to be teaching these basic things in our public schools; too many kids don't get it at home.
Good Luck!
;o)
2007-03-21 23:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by tahunajcw 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the class of the neighborhood, it's the manners of the person.
I know uncouth people who will spit in public no matter what neighborhood they're in.
2007-03-21 23:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont believe it has anything to do with the neighborhood that people come from. It's just that people who does this type of thing are low class themselves.
2007-03-21 23:24:27 · answer #7 · answered by ♣Chronickandy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you'll find that high class people go to low class neighborhoods to do their spitting and keep their own place clean
2007-03-21 23:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Spitting is disgusting. It passes germs. I hope it's not a fashion statement or we're all gonna have TB. LOL
2007-03-21 23:21:08 · answer #9 · answered by Boots 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hope you realize that you have just included most of Asia, the Middle East and Africa in "Low Class Neighborhood" status................. whatever
2007-03-21 23:27:25 · answer #10 · answered by wiccadeth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋