I understood what you meant. :-) And methinks it's time to bring a certain Greek custom here. . .
The whole issue with being trained to be polite and softspoken, etc. is also covered in The Gift of Fear (I basically can't recommend that book enough; I've done my best to memorize the key parts of it since I got it when I was sixteen).
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Date: 2006-07-07 02:30 am (UTC)The whole issue with being trained to be polite and softspoken, etc. is also covered in The Gift of Fear (I basically can't recommend that book enough; I've done my best to memorize the key parts of it since I got it when I was sixteen).