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Originally Posted by Nicholas FirstMobileCash
Nice, positive thread! Being polite and friendly seems natural to me, sometimes it's strange at how some people can be so rude or off-putting to a stranger for no reason.
Sometimes I wonder if rude people go home and feel bad for how they treated others... but then I remember that what i perceive as rude or cold is not necessarily so in other cultures. Coming from Canada, it's definitely more challenging to get through to strangers in other parts of the world. Makes my trips back to north America (US included) that much more exciting... I'm always looking forward to the friendliness. Especially with service staff in stores or restaurants.
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Yeah, the contrast between the friendliness of north Americans compared with Europeans is pretty big. I have friends from Germany and France who have moved here and thought it was bizarre how people would great them in such a friendly way, even unknown neighbors in the elevators of their buildings, etc... They got used to it, after a while, and now they love it.
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