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RE: On Various Types of Respect - EcoTrain's Question of the Week
Living in a country (Thailand) where formal "respect" is mandated, I have been mulling over this question during a busy week and preparing to answer later today. I loved this: "...our self-respect also earns the respect of others, and vice versa: respecting others earns you their respect as well, which in turn strengthens your self respect. This is probably the most essential type of respect." Just YES. A big, fat yes. Lovely contribution - thank you.
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I'm living in a country (Mexico) where respect and formality is also mandated. In practice, however, it is just as often disregarded, which in my opinion is even worse than saying nothing at all.
In another country I used to live (Germany) the expectations are the opposite: they don't like it if you resort to obviously empty words, such as "How are yoooou?" or "I've missed you soooo much." unless you honestly mean it. This Germanic coldness is in fact their way of expressing respect to each other.