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Message from: Deepa P
About: polie
Sun, 26 Oct 97 17:52:39 EST
At first I thought that
the respones were very similar. After a second, closer look, I
noticed that the French responses only delt with the outer apperance;
the responses were mainly about a person who said "please"
and "thank you" and seemed nice to others. On the other
hand, several of the American responses were about emotions; they
thought that a polite person was someone who was careful not to
hurt others' feelings by saying the wrong thing. So do you think
that the French associate politeness just with appearance and
the Americans associate politeness with actual feelings?
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