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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Letting a door slam in someone's face is rude.  I grew up in the south as well and it was drummed into my head, "if you don't have anything else, have good manners."  [b]23:56 Idon't know where you are from but I've lived in  Europe, Japan, North Africa, and in all these cultures good manners are the same.[/b]  I have also lived in six different states and experienced the same manner of politeness.

A man stopped at a gas station and told the attendant he was moving to his city and asked what the people were like, because where he was moving from the people were mean, unfriendly, and rude.  The attendant told him he' find the same kind of people in this town.

Another man stoped at same gas station later and asked attendant the samne question and added, "I hate to leave our old town because everybody was so nice and friendly and helpful neighbors.  The attendant told the man, "you won't be disappoited because the same kind of people live here."

The mesage is pretty clear--you will find in people exactly what you are looking for and you get from them exactly what you are giving them.  [/quote]

Actually, I'm 23:56 and have lived on 3 continents (though only briefly and painfully on the Southern part of this one-- DC excluded for present purposes), and have found that local customs can differ considerably from one place to another on the issue of whether it's polite to initiate eye contact or small talk with strangers. I'm not advocating slamming doors in people's faces, but I absolutely have lived in places where brushing past a slower shopper or pedestrian with a crisp "Sorry!" is perfectly acceptable. In these places, someone who walks down the street smiling and nodding at strangers (or neighbors who haven't been in introduced) is considered a bit goofy. The neighborhoods OP discusses have a something of an identity crisis because they're neither urban nor technically suburban. As such, they're going to attract shoppers with both sets of social expectations, and some cultural clashes result.

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