Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

yl-ruil wrote:
>
> taliesin the storyteller euecuet:
>
> > > > Well, thank you, and have a nice day.
> > >
> > > Never say this again, otherwise I may be forced to kill you ;). This is
> > > nothing personal, just a cultural pet-hate. I'm sure any other English
> > > people on the list will agree when I say we find it VERY irritating. But
> > > apart from that, good luck kidder.
> >
> > Why is this a pet-hate? Hmmm... makes me think of shop-clerks... "thanks
> > for buying Jalla-burger and have a nice day!" Lower-class? Is that why?
> No, very American. While there is nothing wrong with American culture, most
> non-Americans object to the creeping influence of the overly PC "corporate
> American" I think it's called cultural imperialism.
>
I'm in Canada, and  we all resent how Americans think they are superior
than us. I got flamed for being a "gay Canadian" in a chat room once
because I mentioned I live in Toronto. Shocking, but not very suprising,
sadly.

> > How handy it is to be "God" for a conculture and explicitly brand that
> > kind of behavior as foreign, traitorous and impolite :) "He couldn't get
> > to the point, what a loser!"
>
> The Carastans actually have a god of etiquette and a demon of bad taste:
> Dharelos and Barenos!!
Mmm... polytheism. You can't go wrong when you have a god of etiquette.
That's what's wrong with society these days, there's just not enough
gods.

--
Robert