New York is the most polite metropolis

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The publication "Reader's Digest" has done an interesting and useful job - it has compiled a rating of politeness of megacities around the world.

Reporters from "Reader's Digest" held a politeness test a couple of times in 35 cities of the world, like this: they dropped papers in the middle of a busy street and saw if passers-by would help, counted how many times the salespeople said "thank you" and, finally, how many times the entrance, people hold the door in front of them.

As a result, New York turned out to be the most polite city on the planet. Former mayor of this city, Ed Koch, explained to reporters that local residents have become more attentive and patient with people after the September 11 attacks. In second place was Zurich, in third - Toronto.

Bombay became the roughest metropolis in the world, with Bucharest, the most unceremonious city in Europe, in second place.

Moscow was ranked 30th on the list of politeness and 6th on the list of impudence (this happened after one Muscovite was rude to a Reader's Digest reporter who asked her to hold the door himself). Only residents of Singapore, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Bucharest and Bombay behave more rudely than Muscovites.

At the same time, journalists separately noted Zagreb as a city with the most helpful passers-by, after an elderly Croat with arthritis rushed to collect papers. Stockholm has earned the title of the city with the most polite sellers.