Did there used to be?

[Aspergers_Aspie]

Did there used to be that people would have respect for someone's personal space? So often these days, it doesn't seem like people try to have respect for people's personal space!

 

[Judge]

To me it's primarily a cultural consideration.

That the broader a society becomes relative to culture, the more likely that considerations of personal space will diminish.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Some people are taught cultural/social behavior, "good manners". Others are not. Sometimes the nut doesn't fall far from the tree, as the parents do not have good manners, either.

 

[Judge]

There are parts of the world where many of us might find train travel quite unattractive given the number of riders inside (or even outside) a train car. With not only passengers pushing other passengers, but attendants pushing them in so the doors can properly close. Looks pretty grim to me, but to locals with another culture, they probably give such things little thought.

 

[Mary Terry]

There are parts of the world where many of us might find train travel quite unattractive given the number of riders inside (or even outside) a train car. With not only passengers pushing other passengers, but attendants pushing them in so the doors can properly close. Looks pretty grim to me, but to locals with another culture, they probably give such things little thought.

Americans want more "personal space" than many other cultures. I don't want anyone standing a foot from my face and talking to me. I don't want anyone to sit squeezed up beside me unless it is unavoidable.

I need my space.

 

[Judge]

I don't want anyone to sit squeezed up beside me unless it is unavoidable.

I need my space.

I got my fill of that as a child. Standing up against total strangers like I was a sardine in a can, along with everyone else on the Capitol Mall, watching fireworks in the nation's capital each year.

Worse was if people stayed to the very end, and then all of a sudden began to disperse en mass.