Upon meeting again on wednesday, none of us really had a great deal of research that elaborated much from what we'd looked at initially on monday. We all decided it would be a good idea to split up and all individually find more research in order to collectively start mapping out and brainstorming ideas
My first initial stop was in the library, but despite flicking through a lot of things I couldn't really find anything particularly all that informing on the subject - either in other practitioner's work or academic study. After this I moved on to the internet to see if it'd provide me with any more info on anything we'd already looked at - though again, I found this a bit of a struggle. The biggest problem with impoliteness is that it's subjective; what one person finds rude, another person might be completely indifferent to. A lot of what I found, and what was eventually sourced by the others at our re-group were lists of things people generally found to be pet peeves in general day-to-day life. Unable to find inspiration in statistical evidence or journalism, I started to look at finding other work tackling a similar nature.
Working in a shop, one of the major places I experience rudeness on a daily basis is usually at work - and I often like reading blogs like Clients from Hell and Not always right, which are usually combined horror stories from shop workers about customers they encounter. I find people tend to stop seeing someone as a human the minute they stand behind a tillpoint or put on a uniform - the same, we found was often the case with commuters on public transport. Often people are rude even in scenarios they typically wouldn't usually be - when you get stuck in a routine often things that deviate or add to the annoyance caused by the humdrum of having to do the same thing every day can make you aggravated and cause you to lash out at people around you as a result. Only got an hour for lunch? Had to wait in a half an hour queue only for the till-worker to ask you 500 questions you don't want to hear? Had a commute from hell and someone is sitting in your seat in the next connection? For a lot of people, these scenarios make us self absorbed and selfish when faced with them and people often seem to be rude as a response to the annoyance.
I feel nothing quite summed up this experience better than these funny tube signs I'd seen circulating the internet quite a lot. For a country supposedly renowned as being desperately polite and painfully awkward at disagreeing with people - I've never been somewhere with such a large concentration of hostile commuters as the Underground in London. London is like a breeding ground of rudeness - a bit like the mice on the tube lines really. The invasion of these subtle, passive aggressive signs in places where this sort of rudeness is finally found is really inspiring to me and I think is the perfect way to tackle something of this subject, because its relatable to everyone in that scenario, and its funny without being immediately in-your-face.
My first initial stop was in the library, but despite flicking through a lot of things I couldn't really find anything particularly all that informing on the subject - either in other practitioner's work or academic study. After this I moved on to the internet to see if it'd provide me with any more info on anything we'd already looked at - though again, I found this a bit of a struggle. The biggest problem with impoliteness is that it's subjective; what one person finds rude, another person might be completely indifferent to. A lot of what I found, and what was eventually sourced by the others at our re-group were lists of things people generally found to be pet peeves in general day-to-day life. Unable to find inspiration in statistical evidence or journalism, I started to look at finding other work tackling a similar nature.
Working in a shop, one of the major places I experience rudeness on a daily basis is usually at work - and I often like reading blogs like Clients from Hell and Not always right, which are usually combined horror stories from shop workers about customers they encounter. I find people tend to stop seeing someone as a human the minute they stand behind a tillpoint or put on a uniform - the same, we found was often the case with commuters on public transport. Often people are rude even in scenarios they typically wouldn't usually be - when you get stuck in a routine often things that deviate or add to the annoyance caused by the humdrum of having to do the same thing every day can make you aggravated and cause you to lash out at people around you as a result. Only got an hour for lunch? Had to wait in a half an hour queue only for the till-worker to ask you 500 questions you don't want to hear? Had a commute from hell and someone is sitting in your seat in the next connection? For a lot of people, these scenarios make us self absorbed and selfish when faced with them and people often seem to be rude as a response to the annoyance.
I feel nothing quite summed up this experience better than these funny tube signs I'd seen circulating the internet quite a lot. For a country supposedly renowned as being desperately polite and painfully awkward at disagreeing with people - I've never been somewhere with such a large concentration of hostile commuters as the Underground in London. London is like a breeding ground of rudeness - a bit like the mice on the tube lines really. The invasion of these subtle, passive aggressive signs in places where this sort of rudeness is finally found is really inspiring to me and I think is the perfect way to tackle something of this subject, because its relatable to everyone in that scenario, and its funny without being immediately in-your-face.
Heres a few snapshots of all the research we individually compiled. The rest of the group managed to find a lot of newspaper articles that pretty much backed up a lot of our own personal experiences - though again, relied heavily on subjectivity and not statistical evidence much at all. Hannah found a really funny list of passive agressive responses to rudeness, much in the same vein as the tube signs I was looking at. We managed to compile a lot of research, but the biggest thing we managed to bring from it was the fact that rudeness on a large scale was simply too broad and too subjective to cover as a whole - we had to narrow down specific sorts and scenarios of rudeness in order to start thinking of ways to create a visual response to it. Below is the summary of the list we've created to explore upon.
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