[ SECRET POST #2343 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2343 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Where I'm from in the states, it's not a tendency to chat up strangers in public, per se. Some people do, but it's a toss up to whether the other person will be friendly back or think you're weird and be uncomfortable. (My reaction falls in the latter category when it happens to me, it makes me anxious, and frankly I'm jealous of you for living somewhere it's so unanimously accepted.)

But I live in a city where people come from all over, and a lot of American Southerners comment that back home everyone talks to everyone and we (my city/state) natives are "unfriendly." This area is also known for being liberal, so, full of people who favor more government presence in our lives, while the South is known for the opposite. So based on my observations, you may have a point... though now I'm wondering why the correlation exists, if there is any reason.

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's a compensation thing? More privacy in one area leads to less in the other.

It's interesting that it might be a North/South divide too - maybe the cold leads to people being more buttoned up, literally and figuratively.

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[chardmonster]

Cultural differences in the states aren't as strict as a north-south divide, though.

I'm from Upstate New York; my university (also upstate) has a lot of students from downstate; think New York City and the area within an hour's drive of it. While both groups tend to be open, I find people from downstate tend to be much more rude and demanding. I'm not saying this from a position of distaste; my own grandmother was from Brooklyn. I'm not from a small town or rural area by any means, so this isn't a country/city sort of thing.

I dare you to find a place in the continental US colder; we aren't very buttoned up.