It's a short one, but in case if you don't want to read that all, I'll show you a few quotes:
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Our obsession with good manners means that
we feel a duty to discuss the weather with the postman and leave with a
hairdresser. We are writing to laugh long thank-you letters to people
who have already thanked verbally.
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When the British Top Gear fan, wants to
take a picture with me, he spent hours explaining how his son watches
the show on the channel «Dave», and how he can parody me and everyone in
the house "pray" for our transfer. In Russia, just say, "Photo".
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For the British it all quite wildly. But
some time later, I began to realize that incivility saves a lot of time
and nothing you do not need. When someone is spending your evenings on
every empty-headed nonsense, just say that they are wrong and walk away.
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Already at home, at the airport
"Heathrow", I came across a pretty sociable immigration officer. "For a
long time went?" - He asked politely. I saved two seconds, not bothering
to answer.
It looks like for one week we defect this guy.It looks like he already knew that excessive politeness is a burden, but he just wasn't brave enough to make this conclusion.
Human a social animals, and it's a hard thing do something opposite to common behavior.
My favorite video in that regard:
My questions:
1. Do you think that you could survive in the society where the rules of politeness quite opposite to what you got used too?
2. How fast we can get new rules?
3. Which direction is easier to adapt? To the excessive politeness or to the brevity?
4. Are there "wrong" and "right" way about that topic?
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