Just wondering what you guys thought of this?

I wonder if they are as rude and ignorant as the Lithuanians next door to me. 

Once more, just once....... 

When I worken on the London Underground, I found the Americans to be the most polite tourists you could meet. I never met one that did not have manners. The French I found were utterly rude with no maners at all. As a train driver, I had to open my cab door to see everyone on and off the train and you would not believe how many French people attempted to push me off, so they could get in. One day, after telling this Frech youth 7 or 8 times to use a passenger door and not my drivers door. He still tried to push in. So I grabbed him buy the shirt front and roughly pushed him out. That was when I discovered that the youth was in fact a young woman. She screamed when I crushed her, you know whats,in my hands. I shut the train doors and left the platform in a hurry.

I think being out in the public around others has an lot to do with how freindly you are in general, but people have become more shy recently because of the many "wierd" people out in the world these days, they are afraid might do them harm. Wasn't it in France where some Muslims guys raped "one" of their own young university students here some time back, because she was "acting to improper" in being outwardly friendly and self-independent..that caused an "riot" by the women rights groups internationally over there. Happened an couple years back.

I had my first "Japanese" boss  here some time back and I ended up with an great deal of respect for him. Propably his greatest downfall of leadership was not being with his own people to see some the of shenigans they were pulling off on him,  because he was so hard working an guy himself...he expected people to be trust worthy when he was not around and they were not, but he fit into my generational style of people perfectly. He over paid in ways he could find to do so, if you proved yourself worthy of it. For me he called me up one day and said he had an job for me to do for him, and I said what is that sir, and he said, I want your to deliver this food to an local corporation for me. Well,I did, I was glad to get away from the place anyway, when I got back, he gave me the $100 tip...for my time and trouble...gas. For me in 20 mins that amounted to better then an week's wages, as I was working part time back then. We had this hispanic gal that made cookies for us to sell out front daily also, we had ran out of them, and ever time I asked her for more, she'd say..."me no speak'em English"..when she told another assistant boss that, she looked at her and said, "me no speak'em Spanish" but I have an "job to do" and walked off...knowing full well she understood the message given.  But he heard her say this to me, my little oriental boss, and he walked over and in Spanish told her it was her "job" to ALWAYS supply cookies to sell if they were needed, if she had an problem in not being able to do that..to come to him. She was miffed. I was astonished. Later I was told he talked "fluently".... English, Japanese, German, Spanish and French. You would never know that to be around him, or that he had an full  4 year college education also. He knew I had been an supervisor, even though I knew I knew not of the bolts and nuts of running an restruant. He was not beyond when he had the time fo showing me way sto cut down the time I took me to do things, as I was an hostess and cashier and was responsible for an lot of little various chores bsides that as well. He left one day when management over his head came in and he was showing me an faster way of setting up the tables and cleaning them, when they saw what he was doing, they told him to not be "bothered with me", because they made the rules...so we did what they said to do. So when I tell you our local "Boston Market" went out because of so called upper management, I'm not kidding you guys. They thought they knew everything. An serious mistake on thier part. First thing I noticed about the place was despite the plastered signs all over about "team work" no one "knew" what the structure was in the place, of who was over whom in senority or expereince...it was never formally "Posted". So if you had an question and the boss was out of the place, you had no idea whom to ask..or even knew.. for that matter of fact.  It made for an "lack" of teamwork in itself.

I generally  I like people I can be around that can enhance my own education on matters.   

I truly beleive that people can only interact with us at their level of personal growth. Sometimes we have to remember this on a daily basis.