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[quote=Anonymous]I definitely feel like we’ve lost a lot of social norms. I think a lot of that comes from people increasingly living in an online world. That impacts how we have conversations especially about difficult topics, norms around fashion (or even simply what’s considered appropriate clothing), and day to day niceties like saying thank you to someone who holds the door or lets you into traffic.  The pandemic eroded norms more and made everything optional; people routinely do not rsvp and bailing is so common it’s almost the default.  And I do agree that many people are stretched very thin—cognitive overload (some of which is a result of too much tech/constantly being “on”), managing kids while also caring for elderly parents, dealing with personal mental/physical decline that comes with aging. I think in the past we had tighter IRL communities that acted as support systems and that’s broken down in many places so people are facing these challenges on their own. Lastly I think that greater diversity in a community (like in a large urban area) leads to a lot of different cultural norms which when faced with norms different from your own can feel rude or off putting. [/quote]

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