Have you ever met someone that was "too polite"?

[HouseMoat]

It's ok to be polite, especially when you have people like trump and his fucking retarded ass face, but, like, even being polite can be a bit of a turn off. So have you ever met someone like this for example:

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Most Japanese are like this. They literally apologize if you step on your foot like:

A: I'm sorry that my foot was in your way.

B: No, I'm sorry for stepping on it.

A: No, please, if my foot wasn't inconveniently there for you to step on, you would not have stepped on it and disrupted your regular walking.

B: It's really my fault because if I had walked more carefully and noticed that your foot was there, I would have chosen to step elsewhere.

A: Perhaps, but had my foot not been placed in such an inconvenient location, you would not have had to be so careful in your walking to step on it.

Me: Geez! Let's move on already. Do you all like zombie films?

[HouseMoat]

I have heard that the japanese culture is like this too. I get it, it's nice to be polite but, like, really?

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Yeah, it's a bit much sometimes and makes it difficult to express what we truly think. It does make it easy for everyone to cooperate but sometimes feels a bit restrictive. Where Japanese turn upside down is when they're drinking. Japanese have a mentality that whatever rude things Japanese say and do when drunk is something to be immediately forgiven, and I think they need that because they're so polite everywhere else. 😅
https://youtu.be/6s0KD0qFy28

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

[*] They literally apologize if you step on [their] foot [...]

Whoops, made a mistake. I'm so sorry, so sorry! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I am Japanese myself at least nationality-wise and born and raised here originally, but my mother is half-American and I lived in the US for a good number of years and became somewhat Americanized that way. I now favor something in the middle as my default where we favor some degree of courtesy and politeness but also some degree of assertiveness and practicality.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

[*] ][...] but my mother is American, sorry [making me half-American],

[NathanDavis]

I had a professor... a real life Flanders, lol

[FreyaRed]

Well, in some culture like in Japan when people are exaggerated polite or caricaturally polite it means "fuck off"

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i need for them to have some kinda backbone and standup to speak their mind at times

[laly520]

yes
was a kind person

[jahaims]

Yeah