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In high involvement culture, people put a premium on openness and friendliness. People tend to talk over each other, joke around a lot, and are more emotionally expressive. Southern European, African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish cultures are among those that tend to be high involvement.
Sound to me like Irish culture may be more high involvement as well.
It's possible to be warm and friendly without talking over others and interrupting. Talking over people and interrupting is just rude. I haven't noticed Af. Americans doing that at all.
It's possible to be warm and friendly without talking over others and interrupting. Talking over people and interrupting is just rude. I haven't noticed Af. Americans doing that at all.
Yes, please, pick every word I wrote apart, a la CD style, and find some tiny flaw to make a big deal out of. Why ignore mole hills when you can raise them into mighty mountains?
To clarify: not talking over people as in interrupting. Talking over as in many conversation going on at once among the same group of people. Sorry if that was confusing.
I've seen some fairly horrific scenes at Covent Gardens, but I've never made an effort to identify their nationality - I'm usually too drunk anyway.
Most British city centres are pretty unpleasant places after 1am - Scantly-clad ladies walking home, bare-foot, heels in hand, whatever the weather, tipsy, booze-ridden 20-somethings pouring out of bars and onto the streets, occasionally erupting into a brawl.
It's possible to be warm and friendly without talking over others and interrupting. Talking over people and interrupting is just rude. I haven't noticed Af. Americans doing that at all.
'Rude' is culturally relative. Many cultures can hve a conversation without making an moderated electoral debate out of it and they seem to understand each other just fine.
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