2007-07-19 08:47:05 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yes i do actually and i have a lot of respect for pensioners....im always polite. but i have a 2 year old in a pram and a 3 year old on a buggy board and if i had a pound for the amount of times ive been tutted at in shops by older people because im in the way or whatever! really gets my goat...im always moving out of the way, holding doors open, giving up my seat on the bus etc...and i really dont mind at all...it just would be nice to get treated with the same respect once in a while! after all they must of had to do shopping with toddlers and prams at one time or other? i swear i will not treat people like this when im older! and another thing my 2 year old daughter has down syndrome...now young people tend not to notice or stare at all but i have often noticed older people frequently stare blatantly into her pram and then look at me!!!! wtf is all that about? why dont they just smile like they would at another child who is (so called) normal? now that really gets me mad! good question by the way.
2007-07-19 08:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by ♥♥Cat Lady♥♥ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All age groups have their good their bad and their disrespectful.
Frankly I think older folks are a bit more rude because they are treated so disrespectfully by young folks. For a example just look at some of the replies you got to this question.
Whatever happened to just being respectful?
One thing I have found that I follow is remembering that if not for some higher power that could be me. You never know where you will be in the future try to look at it from heir point of view.
Especially the nursing home answer. can you imagine living independently in your own home and doing for yourself every day for many years and now you find yourself due to health and or old age now stuck in a home where you have to basically follow all these directions and can not do and can not go an can not eat as you wish and desire? Now add in that your family because you are old have basically turned their backs on you and add in that many of those you were friends with are gone now and you are left thinking you till will be soon and this is how you are having to deal with those last few days months or years.
Not a pretty sight is it?
Compassion and respect can go along way into having fewer rude people of all age groups.
Try walking in the other persons shoes. Imagine what they feel. No matter the age
Imagine having a lot of young people running around calling you a old bag of bones. I think was the reply one user gave. Imagine being called that. Would you not be rude as well?
2007-07-19 09:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by mylilsims 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Age has nothing to do with it, but I do agree that old people can be VERY stuck up and arrogant. Just because they served in a few wars and lived through a lot of years...they think they're better....but oh well, they're also bitter, ignorant, and most of the time rude. But some are nice...probably because they wanna buy their way into their heaven....
2007-07-19 08:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is true of most age groups. But from the age of 33 your personality deteriorates and often your mental health declines - these rude old people are often that way because of their state of mind and depression. We should not be too hard on the elderly.
2007-07-19 09:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by j_emmans 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most old people are not rude at all. Some are very loving, kind and generous. They sometimes sound gruff, but if you'll smile - they smile back. If you can get them to talk to you, they have a world of knowledge stored up and always something funny to say.
2007-07-19 09:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, and I'm looking forward to that age myself :)
I think they're similar to teenagers in that way, read an article on the BBC site saying that they can't figure out as many jokes as younger people. It was inferred that their neural pathways might be deteriorating and so loose a certain amount of empathy. Teenagers have a similar problem, their neural pathways are re-organising and loose the ability to read peoples emotions as well as an adult or younger child.
2007-07-19 10:38:29 · answer #6 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, some old people can be very rude. Also, some young people can be very rude. Also, some children can be very rude.
Some others, old or young or children, can be very nice.
It is called humankind.
2007-07-19 09:04:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, especially those who have had a repressive upbringing; they seem to think that now they're old it's "they're turn". Their rudeness is often a form of payback to whatever elders they were forced to kowtow to in their youth. Either that or they just don't care anymore what anyone thinks.
2007-07-19 08:51:30 · answer #8 · answered by anna 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You know what?
That doesn't bother me.
Why?
Because we have to show respect for our elders. They have paid taxes longer than we have; they have fought wars; they have raised their children; they have their aches and pains.
I LOVE old people.
And when they get a little feisty, I just laugh and let 'em go on. I help them when they let me, and I listen to their old stories. No one will ever convince me that Old People are to be ignored, discounted, neglected, despised, pitied, disrespected.
I'll take the "rudeness" of an old fuddy-duddy anyday to any young Wipper-Snapper's rudeness!!!!!!!!!!
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2007-07-19 09:52:08 · answer #9 · answered by YRofTexas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think everyone can be very rude (myself included, on really bad days), and that rudeness has nothing to do with age.
2007-07-19 08:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by cmm 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋