[quote=Zeitgeist]Things have changed. People are not civil any more. Svelte, ask yourself, are drivers more rude than in the past? I think the answer is yes. It is a cultural change that is societal, not just political. People no longer respect the courts and show up in dirty, inappropriate clothing. They no longer respect the presidency and congress. Times have changed. The middle class was just behind the times.[/quote]
Things have changed and I think it depends on who you ask if the world is more rude today.
If you were a black man fifty years ago in the so called “good ole days” was the world a more civil place for them? Was America nicer as blacks were called niggers and grown men called Boy.
When my mother first moved here from Korea to a little town in Texas many people were awful to her for a long time and this was in the sixties.
As an American woman of Asian descent there is no other time than right now that I wish to exist.
I can do what I want, go where I want, marry, have or not have kids, work, be a stay at home, whatever. I am allowed my inalienable rights of life, liberty, and my own pursuit of happiness; with no social stigma.
I don’t know if people are ruder or not. I don’t see Americans sprayed with hoses and have dogs sicked on them. No one has called me a chink in a long time. No one is rounding up Native American children and “civilizing” them in federal schools. That seems much ruder than the driver that flips me off.
When I hear about the good ole days…I always think well if you were a white Anglo male they were probably good. If you were anything else it may not have always been so rosy.
