respect in USA
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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? |
