2007-10-04 03:34:23 · 13 answers · asked by Mr-Kay 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I believe ti to be as a result of low self esteem... if you feel good about you, you feel good about others; feel bad about you, and everyone seems bad... Not saying they're bad people, just not happy with themselves.
2007-10-04 03:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manners were developed as rules of social interaction. If you went into a strange social situation, the unwritten social manners would make sure that you didn't appear as an outsider.
Without this set of rules, everyone has to decide for themselves what the appropriate behaviour is in any given situation.
Now we don't have an upper class to look up to and imitate, we are all at sea and can just do as we feel like. And who's to say that this is a bad thing. After all, it certainly helps you to recognise someone who you wouldn't want to spend time with much more easily.
2007-10-04 04:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Cliffe-climber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think partly it's because they weren't brought up to have manners and to be polite and thoughtful towards other people, but also because today it's considered OK to be feisty, challenging, foul-mouthed - say what you think. Swear at anyone. What's the point in being 'nice' nowadays? Last week I was in a small supermarket and a mum with a toddler in a pushchair not only yelled at him to effing well sit still, but also violently kicked the pushchair. When she saw me looking she shouted out 'What the eff are you looking at?' My other thought was that she might be a fraught, stressed, unhappy woman who needed some care, I don't know.
BUT I was always brought up with the formula 'Politeness costs you nothing'.
AND this is going to sound like a real stereotype, but why are the rudest people often smelly, overweight, with tattoos?
2007-10-04 10:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they think they are the centre of the world and everyone else is an accessory to their needs. They forget just how dependant they are on others 'below them' and they fail to realise that their world would collapse but for those 'under them'.
I take a certain amount of satisfaction knowing that that they are, in reality, at the very bottom of the heap.
2007-10-04 06:36:55 · answer #4 · answered by istaffa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's possibly the the way they were brought up. Another thing, is that our society encourages people to be nasty and rude, with sayings like ¨nice guys finish last¨. People decide to follow these things.
2007-10-04 03:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by Sakaki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On here?
Because they can be...Its a symptom of life in 2007 that people get so fraught and stressed that they choose to take their personal angst out on anyone and everyone... With no reprocussion other than thumbs down!!
If you mean the staff at my local Tesco..Then, goodness knows..But I'd like to throw stuff at them!!
lol..
2007-10-04 03:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by KB 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were never taught as a child and copy their parents who also have no manners.
2007-10-04 03:47:52 · answer #7 · answered by Sally Anne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One time, a woman brought her 4 yr old to our break room at work. Child started to make noise, whiney cry, etc. One of my coworkers told the child to be quiet, that this place is where we come to rest.
The mother then told the child "Tell that b---ard to f--k off!"
Moms like that ---- that's why.
2007-10-04 05:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by kiwi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want manners and polite conversation...you've come to the wrong place!
2007-10-04 03:38:39 · answer #9 · answered by Doodie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bcz they need someone to teach them how to be polit and have manners
2007-10-04 04:21:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋