Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
How can you objectively declare a phenomenon that is, by definition, subjective? I'm not saying that people weren't rude, I'm just saying that I think you might have to lose your license to use the word "objective" for a while. Felony malapropism!
Well, that is all well and good as you invite fortification to my words.

What I was meaning is that they were indeed rude, negative, and so on. It is fact that most of them were. Then I provide this fact to you/others. Is ignoring a person when you shouldn't, cursing a person out for no apparant reason, being psychologically aggressive, and looking/staring at someone in dirty ways, not rude? We know more or less what is rude and what is not, we have more or less defined it and given it values and recognitions. Those examples I named ARE examples of general rudeness which we can all agree upon, unless you LIKE being cursed out and such? Subjectivity? Meh.... Consistency? Oh yes, baby.

I say that especially to Geoffrey who still seems to be assuming I applied this fact to the WHOLE nation, while in fact I stated that BECAUSE of the fact AND other unnamed reasons I started disliking the nation, NOT saying that the WHOLE nation is rude, bad, or negative just based on some rude populations I detected. It was a nice twist but ineffective. I give those who performed in it credit for fallacy skill!