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Originally Posted by DanaC
One of things that always fascinates me in the study of history is the way aspects of culture shift from one paradigm to another. Like,for instance, with masculinity. We tend to think of masculine qualities as fixed, almost static, or at least shifting along quite a short spectrum. The idea of male stoicism, for example, that men are less emotionally driven than women, that to openly express deep emotion is in somesense unmanly - feels like something that has always been and is only really being challenged in recent decades.
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Where do you get this information, books, newspapers, poems, essays? Are people who write, the same as, travel in the same circles, or even accurately observe, the masses? Things written by literate people are read by literate people who agree that Joe Schmo down the street thinks this, feels that. Joe can read and write, but can't be bothered to refute some edumacated candyass writer even if he had the means.
The internet has changed that, a platform for the common man. Some of the statements people make, which are cherry picked and posted for amusement, make us wonder if there's intelligent life on earth. But those don't really represent the masses. I wonder how many surf the net, laugh at cat pictures, read and accept or reject, but never write a word? Or how many don't write until they read something that pisses them off so much they respond with an incoherent babble from sheer rage. So does what we see on the net give us an accurate picture of what the masses think?
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Like many brits, I find tipping a source of discomfort
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So do most Americans. I always had mixed emotions because I knew a lot of people in service industries and marveled when they would wax poetic about someone leaving an extraordinary tip. But money was always being stretched to cover needs and some wants.
Now there's enough money(I'm single
), to cover my needs and wants, I generally over tip, but try to split before they discover it.