Do you like the British stiff upper lip,propriety and prudery in mind and manners kind of attitude?is it refreshing in this modern world of prevailing coarseness?
2007-09-21 11:10:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes I do. (if it's done with respect). It's a way to respect oneself and other people, without intruding in their lives.
2007-09-21 11:21:30 · answer #1 · answered by borogove57 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the 'British stiff upper lip' attitude is often misunderstood to be wholly cold. i find the world in the name of Globalisation covers all coarseness in the name of everything is fine as long as you are in the rat race of benefiting the good things in life that come along with Globalisation. I say this in the context of how my colleagues at Call centres dont care for any etiquette about anything in the world so long as they can get the job done.........i just generalised it, but yes some degree of ethics manners is required to instill respect in oneself and others, and it feels gud when someone acknowleges you with say a nod or dosent get too excited to go thru the door himself or herself, when nowadays it is a slap of a hi on theback or a rush past you to enter the door first, knocking you down........
2007-09-21 21:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is about an intelligent way of being reserved, there is a whole nation (Japan) that can teach enough to other countries!
They are silent even INSIDE, not suppressing the thoughts with that 'stiff upper lip' (for, sometime or other it is bound to come out like a volcanic eruption!)
2007-09-22 01:04:59 · answer #3 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I swing between thinking that it's the best way to be and thinking it's a repressive waste of time. There must be a happy medium between the "stiff upper lip" and the "world of coarseness."
2007-09-21 18:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are changed one from the soft side and are changeable to time and circumstances since the majority pretend so strongly otherwise! They are mostly shocked to the reality which they never took seriously and are self perceived to follow the emptiness of reservations which they shed conveniently as the time and need comes by!
2007-09-21 23:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by anjana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is appropriate for casual acquaintances, but may appear rather impersonal and distanced in closer relationships.... the British perhaps overdo a bit and the Americans the other way around... somewhere in the middle may be the ideal.
2007-09-22 02:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They are not reserved people, they are reversed people. A burden on society always wearing an artificial mask on their face trying to be studious. They want to speak and have fun but on the other hand want to make other aware that he/she is studious. They suppress their thoughts and freedom of doing what they like and name it with the management jargon self control or control of thoughts. I pity them because they are loosing the fun in their life.
2007-09-22 03:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by Raj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a "Place" in the World... -Just like the Scots, or the Jamaican's, or the Taiwanese... It TAKES "all kinds" & there ARE "all kinds"...-& that's one of the things that make this World such an interesting place... :)
2007-09-21 18:20:41 · answer #8 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel it is not my job to judge others. As a group or as an individual, what-so-ever. The only person I am entitled to judge is myself. That should be the focus for each of us.
2007-09-21 19:19:15 · answer #9 · answered by Charlie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reservations about them--absolutely!
2007-09-21 20:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by Ke Xu Long 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋