Downright Rude or just Different

This article brings out a very interesting point which is, when does a person know if another person is being rude or if that person is simply raised or brought up that way? In other words, in different parts of the world, people and society act differently to one another.

In Britain or America, catching a bus or a plane is pretty easy, where as in other places such as China, or India it can be difficult. In Britain and America one would most likely wait in line to catch a bus or plane. In China or India, one will try to push, shove, and/or break through the group of people in order to make it on that bus or plane. Both of these scenarios are normal, relative to where they occur. If one would push or shove in Britain to catch the bus or plane, then the British would consider that person to be uncivil. But what if this person lived in India until he was forty and learned this type of behavior from his parents and grandparents, then would he be considered rude? That is where you draw...