There are those that feel that rudeness is greatly increasing. It is pointed out that there is road rage, hate speech, lack of concern for the common good, and increased tolerance for disruptive behavior. Some feel that each generation, things get a bit worse, and maybe they are right.
However, others point out that racism, hatred, lack of manners, and unconcern for others may be a common theme throughout history, and that maybe modern media just amplifies the issue. There is also the point that rudeness has stayed the same, but tolerance is what is on the rise, making it more obvious. In ancient times, if someone spit on a solider, the soldier would likely kill him on the spot. In modern times, military men and women from most cultures would be expected by their higher ups to tolerate it. In ancient times, an insult hurled from one group to another it may have resulted in a bloody and deadly conflict, where as now, if one even slapped the other, assault charges would be pressed. People still found ways to be quite insulting back then, they just had to come up with more refined ways of doing it.
Of course, it is all a matter of prospective. This has been debated for so long, that even Socrates and Plato had somethings to say on it:
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over their teachers." -Socrates
"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress." -Plato
I guess the best thing we can do is to make sure that we ourselves are doing our best to treat people well. We can remember our manners, even if those around us are not.
Rude, ruder, rudest
Emil Ruder was born in 1914.
William Ruder was born in 1921.
Gardy Ruder was born in 1954.
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Olga Ruder-Zeynek died in 1948.
Olga Ruder-Zeynek was born in 1871.
Raisa Ruder has written: 'Babushka's beauty secrets'
David Sturtevant Ruder was born on 1929-05-25.
Ruder Josip Boscovich has written: 'A theory of natural philosophy'
The comparative form of rude is ruder, and the superlative form is rudest. It is common to form the comparative and superlative of short words like this by adding -er and -est.
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