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| Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| Rude Malaysians .. |
Rude Cities: KL ranks third ... I received my July issue of the Reader's Digest ... and voila .. there it is, the article entitled, "How Polite Are We", pp. 54-62, a resewarch that ranked Kuala Lumpur as the the third rudest city among 35 cities worldwide.
The three tests conducted were:
- We walked into public buildings 20 times behind people to see if they would hold the door open for us;
- We bought small items from 20 shops and recorded whether the sales assistants said "Thank you";
- We dropped a folder full of papers in 20 busy locations to see if anyone would help pick them up.
RD admitted to not attempting a strict scientific survey and what was presented was a real-life test (according to them), with more than 2000 separate tests (wow) of actual behaviour. Mumbai alone has a population of 22 million people, slightly less than the population of Malaysia ...
And the MOST courteous is New York (surpriiiiiiiise). Honestly, to say that it was a pathetic survey is really putting it mildly and for RD to do such a thing is mind boggling. What cretins ... However, this is enough to make the Malaysian Tourism people jumpy .. as if we are not sure of our own people. We have always and will always be like this, it is in the blood, the culture. I see people educated overseas throwing tissues on the ground, people driving big cars throwing rubbish out of their car window, children from school buses throwing wrappers out of the window and many more. Don't kid ourselves where our bahaviours are concerned. But TOURIST have always been coming to Malaysia .. I won't worry about it ... and I am quite sure people will start relating to their 'rude' encounters in countries that they have visited ....
Perhaps we should be asking more pertinent questions, such as what is considered rude, like, is it rude to:
- chase people out of their own homeland and refuse to give it back
- impose one own style of doing things on other people
- think your way of doing things is the best way ..
- think that only you can have nuclear capability and not other people
- hold people (or country) to ransom just because you are rich
the list is endless .... aiyaa, tak tau lah ...
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posted by Rozhan @ 6/23/2006 10:34:00 AM   |
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