rude awakening?
Mumbai was just voted the rudest city in the world. There is a semblance of truth or even more than it in there, though my hard core Mumbaikar heart refuses to accept that.
Meanwhile, Readers Digest who did the survey, used measures like whether someone opened the door for you, did someone help u pick up fallen stuff and whether someone thanked u after u shopped as metrics. Lets spend time on why this approach is flawed.
Being non courteous i.e not doing some of the above things is, to my mind, being apathetic or insensitive. Its certainly not being rude. Rudeness has a certain actively evil dimension to it, which probably cannot be captured by the above three acts. Courtesy's polar opposite might not be 'rude'.
Second, thanking someone after they've shopped has never been a tradition in India. I never remember a shokeeper thanking me for anything, so either we're all born 'rude' or the metric is irrelevant.
Third, the practise of holding the door for someone is again something that only ushers do in India, that too in expectation of a tip. I've not seen anyone else even try to do that.
My take, the measures are typically western concepts, so might be irrelevant to use them in india. Not commenting on the sampling- howmany people form the sample, where were they sampled etc.Most importantly why are we creating bad blood by judging cities on these measures?Can RD rather stick to health or happiness or infrastructure or some such useful measure.
Mumbai sure is rude though. Just take the road to anywhere anytime and you'll know what I'm saying.
Meanwhile, Readers Digest who did the survey, used measures like whether someone opened the door for you, did someone help u pick up fallen stuff and whether someone thanked u after u shopped as metrics. Lets spend time on why this approach is flawed.
Being non courteous i.e not doing some of the above things is, to my mind, being apathetic or insensitive. Its certainly not being rude. Rudeness has a certain actively evil dimension to it, which probably cannot be captured by the above three acts. Courtesy's polar opposite might not be 'rude'.
Second, thanking someone after they've shopped has never been a tradition in India. I never remember a shokeeper thanking me for anything, so either we're all born 'rude' or the metric is irrelevant.
Third, the practise of holding the door for someone is again something that only ushers do in India, that too in expectation of a tip. I've not seen anyone else even try to do that.
My take, the measures are typically western concepts, so might be irrelevant to use them in india. Not commenting on the sampling- howmany people form the sample, where were they sampled etc.Most importantly why are we creating bad blood by judging cities on these measures?Can RD rather stick to health or happiness or infrastructure or some such useful measure.
Mumbai sure is rude though. Just take the road to anywhere anytime and you'll know what I'm saying.
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