BLOGS: Are Malaysians really rude?!
Bloggers have their say on 'manners'.
After Kuala Lumpur won the dubious honour of third rudest capital by a Reader’s Digest survey on 35 capitals, Malaysian bloggers responded accordingly.
Wingz from Everybodi Lafu Rojaks posted this justification on why KL people are so rude: “...what they don’t know is KL is also the only city with the highest number of Millionaires per square metre! Everyone seems to own a piece of road and because they own it, they can drive anyway they want.
“It doesn’t matter they are on the wrong side of the road or if they are endangering the life of other road users... it's their road and they can drive anyway they like! If you don’t like that, then go and buy your own road, ok!
“Today I was on my way to Carrefour Sri Endah when suddenly this millionaire in his Marsilee (on the wrong side of the traffic) charged towards me, knowing I would let him pass. He knew I would step on my brakes and let him have his way because I’m pretty damn sure he is the millionaire who bought this road (judging from the way he drives)
“So, the next time someone asks you why Malaysians are so rude, you tell them because most of the rude people are millionaires!
Mahaguru58 defended KL’s dignity and launched an attack on the survey in his blog Mahaguru58: “Selective reporting by it’s own media, I say!
“The average Americans in cities such as New York are known the world over to be the originators of foul speech and rude behaviour and they themselves disagree with the Reader’s Digest recent poll as to the rudest cities on the planet as shown by the Discussion column in Yahoo News today!
“I am not saying that Americans at large are rude, but based upon the years of exposure to the American media onslaught upon the world and seeing the crude behaviours of the world’s youths today aping the decadent lifestyles being pushed upon the ever impressionable youngsters of this planet trying to ‘out-American’ each other in their manners and ‘lifestyles’!
“I’d say that this is a lame excuse for Readers Digest to boost its circulation and to champion America’s image when it is reviled from every corner of the world...
“...If they are so polite in New York, then all those rising crimes in the ‘Big Apple’ must be pure fiction, being reported by the worldwide media. A crime takes place within every few minutes in New York.
“The reason people walk so fast in the streets of New York is because they are afraid of getting mugged and most avoid eye contact with others on the streets of the ‘Rotten Apple’, I hear from my friends and relatives who have been there and from the newspaper reports from the USA itself.
“To say, Kuala Lumpur is third rudest city on the planet is simply a biased view from those who choose to look for the negative angles instead of really coming to terms that rudeness exists in all people all over the world!”
Andreas from AlwaysWow thinks that Malaysians are not so bad: “They could have asked me and I could tell them plenty of stories – from all across the world. About Hong Kong’s turnaround, or my findings of a rude Malaysian jumping queue or those that behave rudely as interviewers.
“But then, I have plenty of good experience of great Malaysians – those that helped my mum during our recent holidays by opening doors, saying thank you, inquiring about her well-being in this country.
“She left Malaysia yesterday – and besides a little shock (a different story to be told this weekend!), she had a great time.”
The Go and Die blog writer believes that there are certain conditions for Malaysians to be nice and polite: “...anyhow Malaysians are VERYYYY polite to foreigners. I really don’t get this though. Once my uncle was being polite in an elevator to ask an American which floor did he want. But he didn’t do the same thing when a Malaysian entered the elevator. Sheesh. Oh well, I just kept quiet.”
Meanwhile, there are endless complaints from other bloggers, almost on a daily basis about how rude we Malaysians are to each other. It really doesn’t take a Reader’s Digest survey to see that whatever it is, we do have a problem with manners.
Here are two samples. One is from blogger Raymond who wrote: “...what I really detest most is when people smoke in a lift even though there’s a BIG no-smoking sign. It’s just simple common sense not to smoke in a lift because the ventilation is very bad in there. Moreover, it shows how inconsiderate and ignorant he is towards rules and regulations.”
And Zyrin from her blog Amende? talking about some rude Malaysians she encountered in cinemas: “First off, they were talking at the top of their voices during the trailers. Fair enough, give them a chance, the movie hasn’t started proper. And then the movie started...
“...the first few minutes of the movie had these characters conversing in Latin. The girls next to us were busy commenting and translating the Latin script to English. They were reading the subtitles. Out loud. Damn loud.
“Like, hello??? If you’re intelligent enough to buy a movie ticket for The Omen, one assumes you’re intelligent enough to read THE BLOODY SUBTITLES PROVIDED IN BOTH ENGLISH and MALAY since I’m pretty sure the movie director didn’t take it for granted that everyone understood Latin.
“I thought that was that, but nooo... more was to come. Not only were they continuously making EXCEEDINGLY LOUD smart aleck comments that even had the movie-goers in the row IN FRONT of us hissing and shushing, at one point of the bloody movie, one of them actually answered her phone AND CARRIED OUT A BLOODY CONVERSATION IN THE CINEMA.”
Oh well. Bring in the courtesy ads. See if that works this time around.
Quoted blogs:
1. Everibodi Lafu Rojaks (rojaks.blogspot.com)
2. Mahaguru58 (mahaguru58.blogspot.com)
3. AlwaysWow (www.alwayswow.com)
4. Go and Die (abekamal.wordpress.com)
5. Raymond C.C. Blog (www.raymond.cc/blog)
6. Amende? (rowanofthefive.blogspot.com)
After Kuala Lumpur won the dubious honour of third rudest capital by a Reader’s Digest survey on 35 capitals, Malaysian bloggers responded accordingly.
Wingz from Everybodi Lafu Rojaks posted this justification on why KL people are so rude: “...what they don’t know is KL is also the only city with the highest number of Millionaires per square metre! Everyone seems to own a piece of road and because they own it, they can drive anyway they want.
“It doesn’t matter they are on the wrong side of the road or if they are endangering the life of other road users... it's their road and they can drive anyway they like! If you don’t like that, then go and buy your own road, ok!
“Today I was on my way to Carrefour Sri Endah when suddenly this millionaire in his Marsilee (on the wrong side of the traffic) charged towards me, knowing I would let him pass. He knew I would step on my brakes and let him have his way because I’m pretty damn sure he is the millionaire who bought this road (judging from the way he drives)
“So, the next time someone asks you why Malaysians are so rude, you tell them because most of the rude people are millionaires!
Mahaguru58 defended KL’s dignity and launched an attack on the survey in his blog Mahaguru58: “Selective reporting by it’s own media, I say!
“The average Americans in cities such as New York are known the world over to be the originators of foul speech and rude behaviour and they themselves disagree with the Reader’s Digest recent poll as to the rudest cities on the planet as shown by the Discussion column in Yahoo News today!
“I am not saying that Americans at large are rude, but based upon the years of exposure to the American media onslaught upon the world and seeing the crude behaviours of the world’s youths today aping the decadent lifestyles being pushed upon the ever impressionable youngsters of this planet trying to ‘out-American’ each other in their manners and ‘lifestyles’!
“I’d say that this is a lame excuse for Readers Digest to boost its circulation and to champion America’s image when it is reviled from every corner of the world...
“...If they are so polite in New York, then all those rising crimes in the ‘Big Apple’ must be pure fiction, being reported by the worldwide media. A crime takes place within every few minutes in New York.
“The reason people walk so fast in the streets of New York is because they are afraid of getting mugged and most avoid eye contact with others on the streets of the ‘Rotten Apple’, I hear from my friends and relatives who have been there and from the newspaper reports from the USA itself.
“To say, Kuala Lumpur is third rudest city on the planet is simply a biased view from those who choose to look for the negative angles instead of really coming to terms that rudeness exists in all people all over the world!”
Andreas from AlwaysWow thinks that Malaysians are not so bad: “They could have asked me and I could tell them plenty of stories – from all across the world. About Hong Kong’s turnaround, or my findings of a rude Malaysian jumping queue or those that behave rudely as interviewers.
“But then, I have plenty of good experience of great Malaysians – those that helped my mum during our recent holidays by opening doors, saying thank you, inquiring about her well-being in this country.
“She left Malaysia yesterday – and besides a little shock (a different story to be told this weekend!), she had a great time.”
The Go and Die blog writer believes that there are certain conditions for Malaysians to be nice and polite: “...anyhow Malaysians are VERYYYY polite to foreigners. I really don’t get this though. Once my uncle was being polite in an elevator to ask an American which floor did he want. But he didn’t do the same thing when a Malaysian entered the elevator. Sheesh. Oh well, I just kept quiet.”
Meanwhile, there are endless complaints from other bloggers, almost on a daily basis about how rude we Malaysians are to each other. It really doesn’t take a Reader’s Digest survey to see that whatever it is, we do have a problem with manners.
Here are two samples. One is from blogger Raymond who wrote: “...what I really detest most is when people smoke in a lift even though there’s a BIG no-smoking sign. It’s just simple common sense not to smoke in a lift because the ventilation is very bad in there. Moreover, it shows how inconsiderate and ignorant he is towards rules and regulations.”
And Zyrin from her blog Amende? talking about some rude Malaysians she encountered in cinemas: “First off, they were talking at the top of their voices during the trailers. Fair enough, give them a chance, the movie hasn’t started proper. And then the movie started...
“...the first few minutes of the movie had these characters conversing in Latin. The girls next to us were busy commenting and translating the Latin script to English. They were reading the subtitles. Out loud. Damn loud.
“Like, hello??? If you’re intelligent enough to buy a movie ticket for The Omen, one assumes you’re intelligent enough to read THE BLOODY SUBTITLES PROVIDED IN BOTH ENGLISH and MALAY since I’m pretty sure the movie director didn’t take it for granted that everyone understood Latin.
“I thought that was that, but nooo... more was to come. Not only were they continuously making EXCEEDINGLY LOUD smart aleck comments that even had the movie-goers in the row IN FRONT of us hissing and shushing, at one point of the bloody movie, one of them actually answered her phone AND CARRIED OUT A BLOODY CONVERSATION IN THE CINEMA.”
Oh well. Bring in the courtesy ads. See if that works this time around.
Quoted blogs:
1. Everibodi Lafu Rojaks (rojaks.blogspot.com)
2. Mahaguru58 (mahaguru58.blogspot.com)
3. AlwaysWow (www.alwayswow.com)
4. Go and Die (abekamal.wordpress.com)
5. Raymond C.C. Blog (www.raymond.cc/blog)
6. Amende? (rowanofthefive.blogspot.com)
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