Questions tagged [rudeness]

For questions where rudeness is pertinent to any party of an encounter, whether that is the person asking or a third party. Include other tags for cultural context! For questions regarding how to be polite, use the "politeness" tag.

There are some people in life that can come across as rude, or can overtly try to be rude to the people around them. Often in these situations it can be difficult to interact with them, reason with them, or just in general be with them. In addition some people can come across as rude without even meaning to when trying to achieve a certain goal or reply to a certain comment in a certain way. Questions here are about how to deal with rude people, but also situations where people come across as rude, and even situations where you may appear to be rude, even when that was not the intention.

This tag should be used with location tags for cultural context, like , and tags to describe your relationship to the other parties, like or .

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How do you deal with colleagues and people around you constantly passing judgement on you for not knowing something?

I'm unique in a lot of ways. I don't like sports, I'm not in touch with the current affairs, I don't have any opinion on most things and I don't know about most of the things that people talk about. However, I'm sure that there is a reason to all of…
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How can I politely avoid answering questions on which university I attended?

Without evading the question (e.g. by abruptly changing to another topic) or directly refusing (e.g. 'Sorry, but I don't wish to answer.' or 'This is a personal question.') that would seem strange because this question is common, how can I politely…
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Is it rude to ask professors age?

So today during our first lecture we had new faculty to teach us. During first lecture after a brief introduction about him he asked us to ask any questions that we may have about him. So I was curious about how old he was so I asked him. He…
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Sent what you consider an important/urgent email seek answers only to receive a sarcastic question about a grammar error. Your response would be?

I'm interested in attending this college and I have been trying to get answers to some questions and concerns. I was given an email address which I reach out to and I received a response from a different contact basically telling me that my…