WE ARE RUDE!

A few days ago I was reading an article in a newspaper about the citizens of Pakistan and the focus of that article was ‘We are a RUDE nation’ , while reading that article I realized that this fact is so true, if we notice the masses around ourselves we will come to know that each and every category of our society is engaged in this impoliteness, our beggars are rude, salesmen in the markets are rude, our servants (the massis in our houses) are rude, the sabziwals and fruitwalas roaming around in streets are rude, bosses in the offices are rude, employees are rude to their colleagues, the nurses and doctors in the hospitals are rude to the patients, we are rude to the waiters serving us in restaurants, we hardly say thank you to the waiters when they serve us in restaurants and saying ‘sorry’ to someone is synonymous to climbing up mount Everest for us, even if it is our own fault and so hard it is for seniors to praise and say a few words of appreciation to their juniors at workplaces. The ‘best’ examples of rude behaviour can be seen on the roads where people are simply on the edge of killing each other for very minor mistakes while driving. I went to a restaurant with my family during this eid and there a very interesting scene happened, a man was sitting with three women (I guess one was his wife and the rest were his sisters) when the waiter served him with his order, he suddenly started shouting , the reason was that the food was not sizzling, the manager immediately came in and his order was replaced straight away but the boorish attitude of that person was so gloomy for me because he looked a decent man by his appearance and the way he was talking with his fellows was also quite upright but the moment he started shouting and ranting over the waiter he seemed none but a mad man. Its just one example, every day around us we can count on hundred of examples of our rude and ill-mannered behaviour. If we compare our attitude with that of some other country people, we can a lot and obvious difference, I am not saying this because I am also fond of degrading our own country and am addicted to praise other countries (and especially countries like U.S and U.K) but I am saying this because I have experience the urbane behaviour of people in other countries. I don’t know what’s the reason behind this attitude, may be the instability of our economy or the insecurities of life or the worst water, electricity and health, hygiene problems have made us treat others in such a way, whatever be the reason but my personal opinion is that being impolite to anyone is not justified in any situation, society or religion.