HowPoliteAreWe.doc

How Polite Are We 我们是如何有礼貌 The Great reader digest global courtesy test 大读者消化全球礼貌测试 It’s lunchtime in Mexico City and a young man follows a slim girl wearing dark glasses into a restaurant. Without looking behind her,she lets the heavy glass door swing closed,almost smashing him in the face. 午餐时间在墨西哥城和一个年轻人是一个苗条的女孩穿深色眼镜变成了餐馆。没有在她身后,她让沉重的玻璃门swing关闭,几乎粉碎了他的脸。 In a stationery shop in seoul meanwhile,a female customer wants to buy a disposable pen. It’s a minor purchase,but 56-year-old store owner Jang Byung-eun takes the time to talk to her through a variety of different models. When she make her purchase ,he takes the time to say a friendly thank you. 在文具店在首尔与此同时,一位女顾客想买一个一次性的钢笔。未成年人购买,但56岁的店主张成泽Byung-eun花时间跟她通过各种不同的模型。当她让她买,他花时间说一个友好的谢谢。 A chill wind is blowing on a late-winter Wednesday morning at the busy subway exit at Yonge and Eglinton streets in Toronto. Twenty-year-old Monica Hinds is struggling through the hush hour crowds on her way to work when,up ahead of her,a woman drops a folder,scattering papers everywhere. Commuters walk by,but Monica takes a minutes to stop and help the woman with the unwieldy documents were no ordinary members of the public. Each was a Reader’s Digest researcher taking part in a unique test to see how helpful and polite people are around the world. 寒冷的风吹在晚冬周三上午在扬在繁忙的地铁出口,Eglinton街道在多伦多。20岁莫妮卡希德通过人群安静小时努力工作的路上时,前面的她,一个女人滴一个文件夹,散射论文无处不在。乘客走过,但莫妮卡一分钟停下来帮助女人笨拙的文档没有普通公众。每一个都是读者文摘研究员参加一个独特的测试,看看有用的和世界各地的有礼貌的人。 From Thailand to Finland,from Buenos Aires to London,people worry courtesy is becoming a thing of the past. Service in stores has become surely,they say,youngster’s have lost respect for their elders. 从泰国到芬兰,从布宜诺斯艾利斯到伦敦,人们担心礼貌成为过去的事。服务在商店已成为必然,他们说,年轻人失去了对长辈的尊重。 But is such pessimism justified? 但这样的悲观情绪合理吗? Our Three Test 我们的三个测试 We sent out undercover reporters—half of them men,half women—from Reader’s Digest editions in 35 countries to assess the citizens of their biggest cities. In each location we conducted three tests: 我