I come from a smallish town in southern Alberta, Canada. I was raised around remarkably polite people who held the door open for each other, small talked in the grocery line, covered the person in front of them if they were a little short on coffee money, and mowed their neighbor’s lawn if they were out of town. When I left for college, I was quite shocked by the coldness of the people where I moved. I held the door open for a guy on campus once and he acted like I had done something horribly offensive and responded with...
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