Rude person / Personne impolie
personne impolie
Posted by Gabrielle on February 26, 2004
vous avez 3 sortes de réactions: certains sont très critiques et jugent sévèrement les personnes impolies, d'autres restent très descriptifs et sont plutôt neutres. Enfin, un seul d'entre vous a pitié des ces personnes. Quels sont vos critères de politesse?
Judgements
Posted by Phil on February 26, 2004
I noticed that a lot of our responses were very judgemental. I'm not sure, but I don't think that our definitions of politeness are very different; it just seems that Americans draw more conclusions than we really should. I'm guessing that a lot of people thought about a specific rude person they knew and wrote a corresponding description. I noticed a similar trend of making assumptions in the "Someone from a Good Family" responses. When I wrote my answers to these questions, I tried to remain impartial and keep to the term at hand, and I think my answers may have made less of an impact because of that.
Education
Posted by Mike on February 27, 2004
Along these lines, i found it interesting that the lack of education was only mentioned on one side. Perhaps Americans think that rudeness is more a part of the person's personality, rather than a lack of experience?
Rudeness
Posted by Paul on February 29, 2004
I suppose I don't normally think of things as "rude". I mean, the guy talking on his cell phone at inopportune times, certain things at the table, littering, etc. are all things that bug me a bit, and I might say are rude at one level or another, but I would usually think of them as something else, such as "this person is being a inconsiderate" or "This person is disgusting" or "this person has no respect for our world". When I think of "rudness" I usually think of verbal rudness or things my grandparents would say are rude or the pompus affluent people you see on TV in various shows (Darma & Greg comes to mind - Greg's mother).