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[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Isn't that just an US thing in general? I've understood that everybody (especially in the south) always wants to have a conversation no matter if you're strangers or not

Over here in the Netherlands we just ignore eachother and when you go to buy groceries you wait for them to tell you the total and than you give them the money. No need to have a whole conversation and I love it that way, i don't think i would survive the "southern hospitality" i always read about

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

As a 38-year-old who has lived in the US for most of my life, that hasn't been true for over 15 years now. Strangers don't talk to each other in public anymore like we all did in the 90s and 2000s; everybody's staring at their screens in their own little social media world, minding their own business. No one even makes eye contact with strangers anymore, let alone speak to them.

It's really depressing and makes it next to impossible to form friendships in adulthood...

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