[Justin27070]

Sorry about the dryness of my tone there. It occurs to me that I could’ve explained why white Americans tend to be ‘ruder’ than most. In and since the ’60s there’s been a general backlash against Victorian sensibilities, e.g. saying, ‘Good morning’ when it isn’t; saying ‘Bless you’ to a sneezer regardless of whether he’s religious or not; never talking politics with recent acquaintances; ‘minding your own buisiness’; and generally supporting a false veneer of banality for fear of upsetting the calm. It’s behind that veneer that classism and racism always hid, and in the ’50s and ’60s, alchoholism, domestic abuse and other cracks in the American dream festered. So a lot of whites adopted a sort of anti-Victorian attitude – sort of like couterculture light.

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Name : Justin27070, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 26, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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