[ SECRET POST #3318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3318 ⌋

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Comments

[blitzwing]

I see a lot of non-Americans bitch about the niceness actually. They seem to see it as insincere and over the top.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. Either that or they're pleasantly surprised by the friendliness and find it charming and "quaint".

I live in the Midwest, and we get that whole, "Midwesterners are so POLITE!" thing all the time, both from people from other countries and from people from L.A. or New York or places like that.

[(Anonymous)]

ah so is that why you're like this? sort of a one-person campaign to change american society?

[blitzwing]

I'm a global citizen, nonny.

[kallanda_lee]

In short: some of us do. We don't trust it to be genuine.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I work in an international office in the Midwest and our insistence on sincerely asking folks how they're doing weirds out a lot of them. Among Germans there's a pretty universal hatred of "small talk," though I'm not exactly sure how that's defined. The work experience has definitely revealed to me that we sugar coat a lot of what we say -- there's an acceptable way of issuing constructive criticism, for example, that involves sandwiching it between a couple of compliments, and we tend to be adept at that kind of thing.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been to Japan, man, I know what real insincere kindness is. Americans come off as different, more like aggressively friendly to me, like willing to approach random strangers/talk about intensely personal stuff with people they just met. I generally find it off-putting, as a Canadian.