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My dad is from Russia and he sees the American taboo about talking politics at work as just lame and pathetic. Like we're too sensitive or something. I think he
by orblivion 7y ago
My dad is from Russia and he sees the American taboo about talking politics at work as just lame and pathetic. Like we're too sensitive or something. I think he may have even said it was just fine in the U.S. as well back in the 70s (when it was also okay to smoke in the office) but I'd have to check again.
So I gotta wonder if this is generally true or if there are cultural factors.
- ci5er 7y agoIt was NOT Ok in the 70s. It was NOT Ok in the 50s even in social settings. This is kind of not funny (or rather, a bit painful), but it does mock what the US used to be like in the 50s about both political opinions and allowing certain people to have them: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w The old "strictures" in conventional US polite society were to never discuss, in open, in any group, at work, at church, or a neighborhood barbeque: religion, politics or money. EDIT: BTW - to your point about changes around smoking in the office - I left the United States for about 10 years in the mid-80s, and people were having beers (or martinis) with lunch when I left, and then when I got back in the mid-90s - they were not. These things do change, and I am not trying to invalidate that point of yours.
- draw_down 7y agoMy dad is from Baltimore and he was raised to believe that there are some topics not appropriate for polite company: politics and religion.