How Did We Become So Rude?
by How did we become so rude when we used to be friendly and polite?
Have you noticed how rude people have become? We used to be polite and give everyone the benefit of a doubt. Many of us still do, but fewer than ten years ago. It took a lot to ruffle our feathers. We smiled and said hello to friends and strangers alike. We certainly did not yell and threaten people on the street. We said please, thank you, and I am so sorry. Where did we go so wrong in teaching our youngsters manners? And it isn’t just young people. Folks who I know were raised right behave in a way I wouldn’t train my watch dog to behave.
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People like Joe Wilson should know better. He couldn’t even wait for President Obama to finish his speech to start shouting insults. I cannot imagine how he could have insulted his own constitutes and the president with such rudeness. And what about Kanya West? He ruined the evening for Taylor Swift and everyone else with his obnoxious behavior. Louis Gates, an honored college professor, I’m sure he was raised better. There are shouts of Nazi, racist. We are shocked by these outrages, but does it reflect our own rudeness, anonymously berating strangers online, shouting down elected officials. The list goes on.
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Here in Georgia, a man in Walmart took it upon himself to slap a baby in the face because it was crying. At Cracker Barrel a man beat up a woman because her child let the door slip and hit him. Where is the logic? Where is the common sense?
My sister had a slight accident near her town. A man cut the corner too close and scraped her bumper slightly. She pulled out of the road and stood by her car. He pulled over and came tearing toward her swearing and swinging a big stick. As it happened two men were beside the road in their yard and saw him. They ran out to my sister and stood in front of her until the police arrived. My sister said she was afraid. The police came out and took down all the information and told the man to calm down. The man had the nerve to ask for my sister’s phone number but the policeman told him absolutely not. This was only a small scratch. I wondered what would have happened if there had been any real damage.
Does our rudeness have anything to do with all the trash talk we hear from celebrities, the anonymity of berating strangers online, or a sense of entitlement that becomes more and more prevalent, Where did this wrong information come from that it’s all right to be rude,violent and trashy?
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Post CommentUnofre Pili
On September 22, 2009 at 3:46 am
I myself don’t know maam, why some people behaved that way. If they can’t be polite, I will anyway.
Papa Sparks
On September 22, 2009 at 3:50 am
That’s what I would like to know. Some people would say it is our constitutional right–freedom of speech and expression–to say and do as we please, even if we hurt someone. What it really is the breakdown of morality and ethics.
Great article and thanks for sharing.
Rana Sinha
On September 22, 2009 at 4:53 am
Is it that we pay more attention when people behave badly rather than when they behave well?
unown971
On September 22, 2009 at 6:13 am
Great article, Ruby!
kaveri
On September 22, 2009 at 6:54 am
I appreciate you for writing such a WONDERFUL article. Like everyone, I too feel that Kayne’s gesture was wrong. However, it should have been his overwhelming emotions that created the turmoil.
Keep up the good work!
livemike
On September 22, 2009 at 7:14 am
Your right..People have become very rude..It comes from lots of things..Mostly TV i would say.Nobody seems to mind what anybody watches these days..Cinema too..Brought my daughter to a movie and quickly realised how rude it was..Horrified to see that she was laughting the whole way through it..Thing is she can be extreamly rude herself and shes only 14 .
Hazel Crowther
On September 22, 2009 at 8:07 am
We have to remember there are lots of nice polite people in the world too. But we’ve got to keep on teaching our children early on in life how important it is to be nice.
Darla Cooke
On September 22, 2009 at 8:19 am
Yes, people do seem much ruder now than they used to be.
Duff D Moss
On September 22, 2009 at 8:23 am
You know – it’s a good point you raise here. I think there are two things – one as you suggested, some people just think they can speak however they want and get away with it – no repercussions.
The other is a bit like the pressure cooker. Everyone knows if they have a bad day, that the smallest thing can set them off, when normally it wouldn’t. I wonder if people are just feeling more and more pressure, and it just doesn’t take much to pop the lid.
Either way – it’s not acceptable.
CHAN LEE PENG
On September 22, 2009 at 10:27 am
Great article.
MF Raguett
On September 22, 2009 at 10:38 am
Great article…you are so right. My grandparents and parents would never allow such behavior to happen as it does now each day around the world… We should all take a moral lesson or two…great work…
lostash
On September 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm
You are so right!! And the trouble is, it becomes more \’acceptable\’ with every passing day! And you\’re correct in stating that it isn\’t just kids either…..it\’s almost like a virus!
Christine Ramsay
On September 22, 2009 at 5:28 pm
You are so right. My husband was verbally abused outside his brothers house the other day because the dog he is looking after barked. He was really shocked. This seems to be happening everywhere these days. A good article.
Tanya Wallace
On September 22, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Powerful article Ruby touching on a subject not often written about because people have become too afraid to speak the truth anymore due to the rude people in the world!!
PR Mace
On September 22, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Good article, Ruby. Yes, I would agree that as a nation we have become more and more rude. I was taught as a child if two adults were talking and I really needed to ask or tell them something to say,” Excuse me, please” and then wait. I see more rudeness than I see kindness.
jamie mullen
On September 22, 2009 at 7:04 pm
In 1955 Emmett Till was brutally murdered because it was considered rude for a black man to whistle at a white woman. I think the notion that our morals and manners have devolved from a more polite past are not supported by the evidence.
DustinTheToucan
On September 22, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I believe rudeness is everywhere and I very much liked this article and thank you for writing it and thank duff for directing me here. I really needed this. I wrote an article today on the rudeness of some teenagers and how parents don’t do anything about it. But thank you for this artical. I needed to read something like this. =) Also, I’m now a fan. =)
mystery61
On September 22, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Excellent article, people are so rude today!
Anne Lyken Garner
On September 23, 2009 at 5:13 am
I’ve noticed the same here too. But slapping a baby is way too much. That’s beyong rude. That’s sickness.
Mythili Kannan
On September 23, 2009 at 6:06 am
Sometimes rudeness give them free publicity… could be the reason..
Moses Ingram
On September 23, 2009 at 5:31 pm
A great article Ruby, but thankfully there are still some polite people in the world. I know what you mean though, I see it too.
athena goodlight
On September 23, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Perhaps because people are so selfish or self-serving and callous about the feelings of others. It also boils down in the way people are raised at home.
Thanks for a very insightful share.
alfabeta
On September 24, 2009 at 6:10 am
Good article, Ruby!
I think this media and consumer society we are living in makes people egocentric and focus on the wrong things in life. People need to learn that respecting other humans and our world is the only way to build a happier and friendlier society. Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself should be a good start…
WriteEditSeek
On September 25, 2009 at 2:40 am
You offer some food for thought with this article. I often wonder why people feel entitled to be so rude–especially when it is anonymous like in comments on news articles. Thankfully, I haven’t run into many unfriendly people here on Triond–though it is one of the few online places that I haven’t.
I also wonder if we are imitating rude celebrities or if they are imitating us.
Joanna
On September 25, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Excellent article!
Grace Kathryn
On September 26, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Children learn from seeing how their parents behave and how children behave in school. There is not enough support for nor rewards for positive behavior.
Frances Lawrence
On September 29, 2009 at 4:23 am
Thank you for putting into words what so many of us feel. Too many people in public life set a bad example, and whenever we turn on the television we are presented with shows where dysfunctional people parade their problems in public. Swearing, shouting and making threats has become almost normal behaviour on TV. People copy what they see.
Webiny
On September 29, 2009 at 10:02 am
You’re right. I think the rudeness we see today is behavior subconsciously learned on T.V. Some things that people do or don’t do today would have been considered rude like, 30 years back but are acceptable by today’s standards.
Leonardo da Vinci E.
On October 15, 2009 at 11:27 am
I imagine that in many years past peoples employment paid enough percentage wise so that the mother could stay home and spend more time than people do today to raise their children properly. I imagine the economic system (not being properly moderated with economic justice) places pressure on people to win or literally be placed in a postion to die or suffer in devastigating poverty; This unmoderated rat race raises peoples tempers to the point of a hair trigger. I imagine that working for companies these days amounts to being pushed around, led by the nose, and legalized slavery (amounting to a lot of pressure people are carrying on their backs). I imagine with so much communication these days we hear about everything negative first. I imagine there are more people in the world than ever before and that alone makes life more stressful. I imagine society has not learned to include objective rules of courteous egagement in the schools (ethics), because they imagine religion should cover it.
Netty net
On November 1, 2009 at 11:00 am
I use to work in factor with some rude ill manner people. One of them her name was Linda I got my self a seat and when I refused to get off she came and very rudely said
“Will you please get up and get own F——-seat.
Also if your with some one, and they are rude all the time your going feel why should I be so polite and nice to that person I have nothing to lose.