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Is civility dead?
From Rep. Joe Wilson's shout to President Obama to Serena Williams' rant against a tennis official at the U.S. Open to Kanye West storming the stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at MTV's Video Music Awards, it seems as if we've become a society of badly behaved people.
"It's an age of total disclosure and total expression, with very little concern for the feelings of others," P.M. Forni, the head of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, told USA Today.
What do you think? Is civility in society dead? Is this a generational shift in acceptable behaviors? Or are these outbursts just a natural extension of our 24/7, texting, Tweeting and talk radio infused nation?
Weigh in!
"It's an age of total disclosure and total expression, with very little concern for the feelings of others," P.M. Forni, the head of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, told USA Today.
What do you think? Is civility in society dead? Is this a generational shift in acceptable behaviors? Or are these outbursts just a natural extension of our 24/7, texting, Tweeting and talk radio infused nation?
Weigh in!
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It's not dead unless we let it die. And I will do everything in my power to keep civility alive. I passed it along to my children and will do my best to pass it along to their children.
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Not dead maybe. BUT on life-support for sure.
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It's not dead yet but it definitely needs mouth to mouth. The examples sited a good but on an everyday basis all you have to do is listen to a talk show and all you get is both sides screaming. What does anyone gain from this kind of behavior? Mics should be shut off when a person is answering a question and turned on when that person's turn comes up. Just my opinion but I might be wrong.
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I think it depends on where you fall in the food chain. The higher up it seems that people they are above the line lose a lot of respect for other People. Then the higher up combined with the amount of money places them above about everything. At that point people quit being civil, and it becomes a power struggle, and they call that Government
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The loss of civility has been gathering steam - much like a low pressure center approaching a coastal beach dragging the water beneath it ashore: AKA as a Tsunami. The 'low' appeared first in the comedic world, live. It then progressed to late night television and then to the television 'news' world. No one keeps a civil tongue in their head. You have only to walk the halls of a school, a mall, the trails through a park - listen to what's happening. Perhaps not the death of civilization but certainly the death of civility.
No one has any respect for anyone. The conversation of adults is reflected in the conversations of their children. Some living rooms must be pretty rank. So saddening.
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My compliments to you and your family, Lynna. My own family is grown and gone. 'We don't do THAT in this house' must no longer be used in many homes? I loved using the, 'I don't care what their mother said. I'm YOUR mother and.....' Worked pretty welll.
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Civility has been losing ground in our country for a long time. As I think about my grade school years in the 1950's, I can remember that we had lessons in manners. Both of my daughters went to a private Catholic grade school, we are not of the Catholic faith, but they were just the best available grade school in our area, and they taught children to be respectful of others. I remember walking into the school for an event and kids would hold the door for adults. This was not occurring in the public schools in our area. Community and civil service is seriously lacking in our school system.
As years have gone by, the first and most obvious area of rudeness to me, has been the automobile as we all have known the issue of road rage for many years. This has grown must worse over recent years. Think about every time you are on a main road or highway and there is an oncoming ramp. Somehow the process of slowing down to "allow" someone to merge was a courtesy, which has turned into "you had better slow down to allow the oncoming car onto the highway or they become enraged at you! I have long wondered how this changed. Rudeness and downright rage has been growing like I have never known in the last decade and I can only explain it as it begins in the home.
In the last few decades, there has been a change in how parents generally seem to discipline children and a growing need for parents to be "liked" by their children, which brings about a disability to say the word "NO" when it is required for fear of being "hated" by their child. I have a public school bus stop in front of my house, which was great for my daughter when she was in high school, but now that she is in college, we are left with the neighborhood parents and the numerous kids who act as if they all had Count Chocula for breakfast. As the parents talk among themselves, they do not even watch their kids run wildly through the street, in other neighbors lawns, step on flowers and even throw stones into lawns. It is absolutely bizarre and this is in a newly developed, middle to upper income suburb! These children are being taught from early ages that the world is here for them, you don't have to ask permission to do anything as it's seems fine with mom or dad. This is the future of the eradication of civility.
I don't know if this can be stopped or turned around as it is evident that it only gets worse as we have continued to see in the media, year after year.
I am seriously worried about the world that our children will have in the future.
As years have gone by, the first and most obvious area of rudeness to me, has been the automobile as we all have known the issue of road rage for many years. This has grown must worse over recent years. Think about every time you are on a main road or highway and there is an oncoming ramp. Somehow the process of slowing down to "allow" someone to merge was a courtesy, which has turned into "you had better slow down to allow the oncoming car onto the highway or they become enraged at you! I have long wondered how this changed. Rudeness and downright rage has been growing like I have never known in the last decade and I can only explain it as it begins in the home.
In the last few decades, there has been a change in how parents generally seem to discipline children and a growing need for parents to be "liked" by their children, which brings about a disability to say the word "NO" when it is required for fear of being "hated" by their child. I have a public school bus stop in front of my house, which was great for my daughter when she was in high school, but now that she is in college, we are left with the neighborhood parents and the numerous kids who act as if they all had Count Chocula for breakfast. As the parents talk among themselves, they do not even watch their kids run wildly through the street, in other neighbors lawns, step on flowers and even throw stones into lawns. It is absolutely bizarre and this is in a newly developed, middle to upper income suburb! These children are being taught from early ages that the world is here for them, you don't have to ask permission to do anything as it's seems fine with mom or dad. This is the future of the eradication of civility.
I don't know if this can be stopped or turned around as it is evident that it only gets worse as we have continued to see in the media, year after year.
I am seriously worried about the world that our children will have in the future.
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A lack of civility is an offshoot of the Me-generation. Whatever the topic, many people seem to think that their own opinion, their personal "take" on something, is deserving of consideration by everyone else; indeed, should be given precedence by everyone else. We are becoming a nation of narcissists whose mantra is "Deal with It." That may sound a lot better than "Stick it in your ear" but that is what is meant. The meteoric rise of Facebook and Twitter and blogs ad infinitum would seem to reinforce this opinion. It is a sad assessment of our culture in which nothing is sacred, reticence is not a virtue, and graciousness is a word in the dictionary.
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The rudeness of so many shows how unevolved some people are in America, evolving to be a world citizen gives no room for the I, me generation of people who think that whatever comes into their minds they need to speak. It is from not having impulse control, and it causes more grief and hate in this world. Poor Mr Obama, elected by people, the majority mind you, people who look beyond race for the goal of bettering the world. Just let the man do his job. It makes me wonder what the reaction would be if a woman would have become president, i am sure the same amount of hatred would be given to her, that the radical, right wing, would try to find fault with everything she would try, due to the same misconception that a woman couldnt be president. Shame on you Americans who just cant change and give someone else a chance to change things. I agree with former President Jimmy Carter that a fringe group of people are enraged and it is now just coming to the surface. Change or you and your other haters will fail, because there is a world full of people who see beyond race or sex.
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