Are British people actually polite?
英国人真的很有礼貌吗?
获得53.8k好评的回答@Jack Fraser:
Well, asking a Brit this is going to get a somewhat biased answer — but I'll do my best.
嗯,问英国人这个问题,得到的答案会有失偏颇,但我会尽量给出最好的答案。
Like any large group (65 million of us), we are not monolithic — some of us are right arseholes. Some of us are lovely. However, we do seem to have an instinctive politeness drilled into us at a basic level.
像任何大型群体一样(我们有6500万人口),我们也不尽相同,有些人很蠢,有些人很可爱。然而,我们被灌输的基本礼貌已经成为了一种本能。
There is a popular myth that British people are so polite, they will apologise to you if you bump into them whilst walking on the street. So a researcher tested this — she travelled all over the world…just deliberately walking into people!
关于英国人的礼貌有一种很流行的说法:如果你在街上走的时候无意中撞到了英国人,他们还会向你道歉。所以一个研究人员检测了这件事的真假——她环游世界,故意去撞别人!
The results of this (hilarious) experiment was indeed that 80% of people in Britain will apologise to you if you walk into them. The only nation who came close was Japan, with something like 60% apologies — though she did note that the Japanese were much better at stepping out of the way and avoiding the collision! So the statistics do seem to indicate that we have a reflexive need to say “oops I'm sorry”, even when we know full well it was your fault!
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