Rudeness

This morning my thoughts are on rudeness. Of course, I'm writing about it while I'm waiting for my planning meeting to start - "How rude!" Or is it not?

To be consider rude, one has to be in a culture that determines that certain action or words are rude. So one could rude at a given time with certain people, yet at a different time and with a different group, it may not be considered rude.

We expect service providers to not be rude. Well, if I ever get to Paris and be waited on at a cafe, I would expect the waiter to be rude - so it I don't think it is bad.

On the other hand, as we are contemplating in my current liberal studies class and for my final paper for that class, there is a certain coding and decoding on the part of the speaker and the listener that determines whether the said action is rude or not.

I have heard people complain about someone else being rude, and yet not realized that their own actions can be construed as being rude. Maybe they don't realize the kind of coding they are sending out.

Well this is my thoughts for the day...now we are almost ready to start my meeting.