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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never see French kid putting a dirty hand into a bowl with appetizers and stuffing handfuls of into their mouth.

Indian kids that we know are extremely well mannered.

The Chinese twelve year old can hold the most interesting conversations and is also well mannered.

Our friends’ kids from New Zealand have impeccable manners and would never dream to act like this.

I can go on and on.

It seems the kids born and raised in American or half American families have no expectations to meet in terms of behavior.  No wonder schools have so many issues with disruptive behavior and lack of discipline.
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Eh, how much time have you spent in other countries? There are ill behaved kids and parents who don't reign them in everywhere. Definitely in France and China! If your experience is mainly with immigrant families, that's not representative -- immigrants tend to be better educated and often work hard to assimilate their children, and are not necessarily representative of everyone in their home countries. I've met boorish kids from France, China, Italy, Australia, England, Germany, Canada, and South Korea. The one place I've spent time where there really does seem to be a culture that produces very polite, well-mannered kids is Japan. I am trying to think of a Japanese child I've met who was rude in any way (other than small, funny rudeness like sticking out a tongue as a joke), and I can't.

But I've met ill behaved children all over the world. And some places the kids get worse as teenagers and can be much worse than American teenagers. I've had terrible experiences with teenage boys in France and Italy -- those countries can be very doting on their sons in a way that produces very entitled young men. Especially if you catch them in groups away from their parents. [/quote]

+1 about Japanese kids!

We used to live 3.5 hours from Japan and would visit frequently when my 2 older kids were toddlers. It was a running joke that if you took a drink every time you saw a Japanese child acting up, you’d be stone cold sober. :lol: [/quote]

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