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On 2012-11-12 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My experience is that all so-called "primitive" societies have an |
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> excellent grasp of this thing called manners - it's the oil that |
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> lubricates social interaction. |
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Interestingly enough this is most likely due to the principle of 'an |
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armed society is a polite society'. |
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In primitive societies most people are armed (with the arms of the day, |
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ie spears, bows/arrows, knives, etc), and there is no concept of suing |
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someone over something as silly as punching some obnoxious jerk in the |
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face for being an obnoxious jerk. The jerk gets punched, everyone knows |
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he deserved it, 'nuff said. |
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So, people in primitive societies tend to not be obnoxious jerks - |
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unless they are really big and mean and ornery, in which case they may |
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get away with it for a while - until he ends up dead, everyone knows he |
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deserved it, 'nuff said. |
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> By contrast, Western culture by and large is not only mostly ignorant |
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> of manners and proprietary, but we made a conscious decision to |
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> discard all of it entirely. |
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> I too have come into contact with many cultures other than |
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> my own. The only one that goes out of it's way to be rude as a matter of |
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> course is the Caucasian. Food for thought. |
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Due mostly to the litigious nature of modern society. No one wants to |
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risk having their kids stolen from them by kidnappers and child |
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molesters (aka 'Child Protective Services' or some other similar named |
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'service'), so they neglect their parental responsibilities of |
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*disciplining* their children, and voila - those undisciplined kids grow |
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up to be men who are afraid to be and/or don't know *how* to be men, |
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women who are afraid to be thought of as different from men - and no one |
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wants to be the one to get sued by the arrogant jerk for punching them |
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in the face. |
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Sorry, having a weird day today... |