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respect in USA --- Hi. I am from Ukraine originally, and people pay attention to respect a lot	neo_the_one	07/04/03
respect in USA --- Hi. I am from Ukraine originally, and people pay attention to respect a lot. I mean, they try to look good, get good job, get married etc, and mostly it is because they want to be respected by other people. There is no laws governing ethics, so people basically say what they feel. If you get bad grades, expect to hear, "hey, watch doing, fool", or if you dont get married "hey, so you so ugly that nobody wants you, hugh?" and similar. After moving to USA I noticed that there is another philosophy. Everyone can do with his life anything he wants, if it legal and ethical, and everyone should respect their cholices. I mean, if I like to have bad grades, bad clothes, be fat, live alone, not to work etc, people should respect me. I wonder whether people really respect such people, who are not active in making themselves respectable? Do you really respect a man, working as a janitor and het drunk every evening or a professor, who works hard to make many discoveries? Do you respect a bum and a a hard working man the same? Do you respect managers and technical staff the same? Is it possible that a manager os a big compnay invites a mexican janitor woman for a date, after he sees her cleaning offices after work? I dont wanna have a car. Will you respect me as well as thouse having cars?
Clarification/Follow-up by neo_the_one on 07/04/03 11:04 pm: But will you respect janitors the same as say managers? Car owners and not?
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bal317		07/05/03
Hello: Respect, that is a word that has many stages. All because we have different values. Many say we teach people how too respect us, and that is how we are treated in return. So, if I choose to be a maid, bum, business person or even the president of a company or the country, if I show respect to others, then in return I gain their respect and should be treated as such. Now, that low life bum, who draws the values of this so called bum, because he/she does not work, ok, one would have to look at, does this bum, bother people? I have seen many who so chooses to walk around town, live with very little but never utters a unkind word to anyone, nor do they cause any problems to or for people they go on about their business. So, I would show them respect by leaving them alone, and when passing nod in kind. Then we have a high class dignitary, who has alot of influence on financial funding, and holds many people's livelihood by the touch of their magic buttons, well take that person and let them go through the money that has been intrusted to them, causing the people who have trusted them to loose all their money, home, family seperation and often seeing the victim suicide, this type of person even being highly up the ladder, is no better than the "thug" who robs a bank or a selfish bigot, and they so rightfully deserve little to no respect, all because they did not care for human beings. So, to me how you treat others, no matter what you do in this life as a worker or non working class, as you associate with others is how you should be treated. Just my opinion. bal317

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