Most polite people in the world? (definition, different, friend)

[NihonKitty]

Originally Posted by tinman01

I have been to quite a few countries. Thailand by far is the most Polite. I watch them tolerate more crap from foreigners than anywhere else that I have ever been.
I love Japan but make no mistake their polite face is a mask hiding their true feelings.

Unless you ask them you can't know, and that is essentialy what being polite means. I think you're confusing politeness for friendliness. If you have dinner with japanese and start cursing and yelling they will try to be polite to you, and of course they will "hide" their true feelings, while other people would probably curse at you and tell you to leave the dinner while japanese will be polite and try to calmn you down. So yes they are "hiding" their true feelings, but that is what politeness essentially means. Japanese are just as polite or even more polite than thai people, but i believe thai are friendlier than japanese. I think japanese are very polite but not overly friendly.

[leaana]

check this out, they recorded their trip that wasn't in the commercial. at the end, he still prefers seal meat. lol

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[FlyingDutch]

If you are a foreigner passing through U.S. Customs and Immigration... you will experience the rudest treatment anywhere!

Absolutely.... done that several times and i know of family and friends who experienced the same.
It´s like the old USSR.
i´ve also been to Vietnam, but there it was much milder then i expected it to be, since it´s still Communistic i didn´t know what to expect.
entering Hong Kong is not nice either.

As opposted to immigration people, entering the US and authorities, the people of the US according to my experience and what i´ve heard of other people is that they are extremely friendly.

I mean if you end up in Texas and a person just wants to offer his car to you to make a trip through Texas and other States, tht happened to my cousin, you won´t see that in the Netherlands. Dutch would think the woest immediatly, that you would steal it.

I agree with the Japanese being the most polite. I´ve been to Thailand and most people are polite, but not all of them according to my experience, there are those who want to make money of you and even can get very annoying and even angry sometimes at you in case you don´t do or buy what they want you to do or buy.

Japanese are having the most sophisticated culture of communication by far. I already heard of people who went to thee, that people are so nice. I´ve a cousin who´s a pilot of the German airliner Lufthansa and he goes to all these places and always comes back with new stories and experiences. I never went to Japan unfortunatly. Dutch are absolutely not polite, i can guarantee you that!!

S East Asians are away more friendly, polite in general to Western Europeans. I think the British are quite polite. They are devided in two groups, those are are extremely rude and the oldskool British, wich are very polite and decent.

And i also have very positive experiences with Germans, i think they are very friendly and polite and correct. If you enter as Dutch person you feel pretty welcome, i feel pretty much at home in Germany as dutchman, i know that the opposite is not always true as some Dutch, not always, it´s vanishing away, but some are still angry with Germany about WWII and that´s a shame, cause the current generation has nothing to do with it. By the way, the dutch didn´t behave so good in Indonesia either when it was a colony. So it´s a little hypocrite.

dutch if they are in shops, stores, can get pretty indifferent to customers at times, some people like americasn or Germans who expect a very service orientated people can be shocked by this, cause if a dutch person has a bad mood, they don´t really hide it often , so an american can get a very bad experience by dutch service in stores for example.
There are many dutch people who are polite or nice, but there are more people who are rude then in the US. In the US the whole corporate structure is towards customer friendly attitudes and service.

But that´s just my opinion and experience about it.

[contakt]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Japan BY FAR. I live in Japan, and I am absolutely shocked at how incredibly POLITE they. In many ways, its very annoying, as there seems to be so much unneccasary politeness even for simple customer/clerk interactions.

They also say 'excuse me' all the fricking time when no one is even remotely near them (much like Americans do). I feel like you can walk near me without apologizing for it all the time (this goes to both Japanese AND Americans).

Polite !! it's just habit, after 10yrs here i found them full of s.....t

[pigeonhole]

I checked thru Immigration in DFW (I was only on transit)

[pigeonhole]

...and I found the officials quite okay, they were joking even.

[ChrisC]

Interesting reading through these posts. Some of you are quite ‘offended’ when people are polite. Interesting. I guess that says something about your demeanor, doesn’t it? I’ve never seen anything negative about being kind, friendly, or polite with others. It’s called being a decent human being.

The greatest number of decent human beings I’ve seen in one place is probably in Japan. The greatest number of jackasses? Well that’s hard to pin down. They are all over.

[Bluesbabe]

Originally Posted by armydog

That's hard to say. I have meet many people from around the world, and just about all of them are nice. I use to be stationed in Germany, and I had a blast. I also lived in Italy, and had a great time there too.

I really wish the people in the US would be a little bit more friendlier. Everyone is just too busy chasing the almighty dollar.
So I guess the saying is true. "Money is the root of all evil".

Some places in the world ~ like the Middle East ~ perceive Americans as being TOO friendly. Back in the 80's I remember one such guy telling me that we are like "dogs that jump all over people". (He sure didn't like my response.) But, then, there we are also thought of as a nation without morals while other parts of the world think we're too full of inhibitions.

Go figure.

I've never travelled abroad, so I can only comment on foreign visitors and transplants. And I've never found any of them any friendlier than us. I do find a lot of Koreans friendly. East Indians are reserved but very gracious and friendly.

[Huckleberry3911948]

japanese, doesnt mean they like you, politeness is by its nature insincere.

[John McClane]

People who say Americans are rude have never been to the South or the Midwest. On average they are much more friendly and polite than people from the Northeast for example.