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Comments

[iceyred]

Sounds like you've been watching a lot of media set in New York City or L.A. The rest of us are much more polite.

Seriously though, America is a big country with regional differences on what it means to be polite and how it important that is. There are plenty of lovely cities filled with very polite people located all over the nation. Most of us are far more pleasant than movies or tv would have you believe.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, look at a map of the U.S. and compare it to the size of other countries. It's very large and very diverse, so people generalizing about it based on a couple large cities doesn't do it much justice.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I've lived in a smaller urban area, and I've lived in a suburb of Chicago while working downtown. Out of the three, the only place I've seen honking at pedestrians was right in Chicago. Rudeness tends to vary, and I've found that unless you've done something to piss them off, most people are going to be at least polite, if not friendly.

[(Anonymous)]

Even in New York or L.A., that behavior would be considered rude by other Americans. As Eddie Izzard (roughly) said, there is a pretty even distribution of assholes everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, even then, I've never been treated rudely in NYC during any of my trips there? The people I encountered were all pretty nice, honestly!

Met some weeeeird people in the rural south, though.

[likeadeuce]

This, I am sure there are rude people in New York but every time I've been there people have been polite and helpful.

And I dunno what shows OP is watching that are all kids saying 'fuck you' to their moms but I've certainly never seen that in real life.

[blitzwing]

And I dunno what shows OP is watching that are all kids saying 'fuck you' to their moms but I've certainly never seen that in real life.

Sounds like South Park.

[iceyred]

I was in NYC and stopped to look at a bookstore display. A guy walking behind me started screaming at me.

I was driving through Newberry, SC when I stopped to put gas in the car and accidentally locked myself out. The people at the gas station first tried to help me pop the lock on the car door, and when that didn't work, one googled USAA's phone number and lent me her cell phone so I could call my insurance and have a mechanic come out. Without them I would have been up a creek.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, people who scream at you aren't doing it because they feel they have the right to treat other people that way, they do it because they're crazy. And crazy tends to flock to cities.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, I've met nice people all over the US! My family drives all over America (usually to Florida) from Toronto to go on vacations because my mom hates flying.

One time in ... one of the Carolinas, I think? We'd just gotten off the highway to get some gas and this guy walked up to me & my sister solely to make some incredibly racist comments about the people who worked there. I think he genuinely was attempting to be friendly to us, at least, but. Yeeeaah.

Something common I've noticed about the US in general is that there are incredibly aggressive religious billboards absolutely everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

Something common I've noticed about the US in general is that there are incredibly aggressive religious billboards absolutely everywhere.

Oh, yeah. And when my family lived in Nebraska, I also remember seeing a LOT of anti-abortion billboards along the highways.

[(Anonymous)]

fuck that's some exhaustive data

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a NYC native and that guy walking behind you probably screamed at you because he had to get somewhere and you just stopped dead at the display. We got places to go, people to see, things to do. We don't like slow people or people that aren't moving. Get out of our way. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

New Yorkers are infamous for disliking tourists who do this, especially tourists who walk too slowly, stop and stare at things while blocking sidewalk traffic, etc. You're sightseeing, but they're just trying to get to work on time. The next time you're trying to be on time for a job you loathe, imagine some person meandering slowly in front of you, then stopping dead in your path, and you'll get the idea.

[rosefyre]

The thing people who don't live in NYC don't understand is that, in this city, the sidewalks are the main way to get places.

Would you stop your car short to look at something on the side of the road, not caring about the people behind you or if they're trying to get somewhere on time? I assume you wouldn't. In a city like NYC, where walking is integral to getting anywhere, don't do that on the sidewalk either. Check that there's no one right behind you then swiftly move as far to the side as you can so they can pass you easily. It's much more polite.

The thing is, NYC isn't particularly rude, it just has different rules, and people who don't know those rules see the people trying to follow them as rude.

Also, we have a HIGH concentration of crazy people. So make sure the person is actually rude and not just nuts.

[thecoffeefrog]

This, but change it to center city Philadelphia. I had to take the train into Philadelphia once a month to see a specialist and people kept stopping dead to take pictures of random buildings. It started to get to the point where I wanted to freak out on people. I settled for a loud EXCUSE ME.

Fucking tourists with selfie sticks.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people in NYC are very rude in a way they don't even realize it. Lots of whiny males complaining about some seriously first-world problems, loudly, on the subway. The lack of patience of 75% of the people. The "you're not FROM here, so you don't have a good idea of [product that's everywhere in the US]," like cookies or something.

It's never outright, "FUCK YOU!" but it's very "fuck you" in the way that you're not a human to some of them. I fucking HATE people who live in NYC as a whole. New York State? Some of them are awesome. NYC? MEH.

I'm not expecting people to kowtow to me as a tourist, and I understand that some of us inconvenience their day, but the rudeness outweighs any of that.

[arcadiaego]

Sounds like London tbh.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, this. Though they're often less chatty than people elsewhere, and I've not encountered the effusiveness you get further South. But that's OK by me.

[(Anonymous)]

I never thought I'd be defending NYC, but I can say that though my family vacation there was the worst we ever had to the point of being hilarious 20 years later, not a bit of it was because anyone was rude to us. In Iowa (different awful vacation) they did tell my family to go back where we came from and my parents got freaked about how a bunch of backwater yokels knew they were ex-Soviet citizens who ran from the regime until they realized our family car had California plates.

Which brings me to my next point: LA is not rude. No more so than anywhere else. Especially the drivers; I've lost count of how many people -- especially those from out of the country -- who visited us talked about how polite LA drivers are, in the sense that they know how to drive. They let you into a lane, they use their signal lights, and they come to a full stop at red lights. You want to see rude driving try any place where people only started being able to afford cars in the past 20 years. I've got white hairs from my last visit.

Finally, fwiw, I have never seen a pedestrian here get honked at for any reason other than the driver was warning them that they were in danger (which is what the horn is for). Maybe now and again someone gets honked at because they scared a driver so bad they leaned on the horn automatically. The last time I got honked at while walking was because I was day dreaming and crossed a street on a green arrow instead of a green light and could have been killed if the drivers hadn't leaned on their horns and caught my attention.

[(Anonymous)]

In Iowa (different awful vacation) they did tell my family to go back where we came from and my parents got freaked about how a bunch of backwater yokels knew they were ex-Soviet citizens who ran from the regime until they realized our family car had California plates.

I live in Iowa, and I feel like I should apologize on behalf of my state now. Yeesh. Sorry your family had to deal with that.

I agree with you about people in New York City. My school choir took a trip there in 10th grade and the people we encountered weren't rude at all. In a bit of hurry to get where they were going, perhaps (which is understandable, given how busy that city tends to be), but certainly not rude :).

[(Anonymous)]

Not that I've been all over the US, but I've found all the parts I've been to do be rude. Things like: talking about religion in public/to strangers or even customers/loudly proselytizing in public, stopping random people on the street/street scammers/aggressive panhandling, catcalling/randomly approaching women.

I'm Canadian, for reference. Not to say this stuff never happens in Canada, but it happens FAR more often in the US. The aggressive panhandling I found the most shocking. In Canada they're just like "have any change, man?" and in the States they have a whole shpiel for why they need money and if you so much as glance at them they follow you all the way down the block.