Have we become rude? From the drivers that cut us off on the highway to the youngsters who give us lip, it makes you wonder if we've forgotten how to be civil to one another. We'll explore rudeness and civility and ask whether things have really changed for the worse or whether we long for past civility that never was?
Jack talks with P.M. Forni, founder Johns Hopkins Civility Project and author of "Choosing Civility" and Mark Caldwell, Professor of English Fordham University and author of "A Short History of Rudeness."
I only caught the last bit of the show but was upset to hear the last caller give michigan a bad rating. When I went to school in Boston after living in Lansing all my life, I thought Boston was a city full of cold hearted people. I later realized that although the driving is worse and the people seem colder, it is merely being friendly in a different way... a big city style of friendliness - only make friends with people you have a reason to make friends with. In terms of welcoming a stranger, I would say the Midwest in general is 'more friendly' than the east. I have not, however, experienced Colorado.
Posted by: Tom | October 20, 2005 at 02:05 PM