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Reader's Digest Survey - Mumbaites are RUDEST!

 
 
vinsan
 
Reply Wed 12 Jul, 2006 03:06 am
Mumbaites r Rude! The reader's digest survey from the last month's edition must be revisited after seeing the aid by the mumbaites in the MUMBAI BLASTs incident that took place yesterday.

Local People quickly helped the injured by taking them to the hospital in any possible public and private vehicles, Dead bodies were gathered and noted with any identity by them. The phone calls were made to the relatives of the injured. They even distributed food \ fruits and water to the people who could not reach home by road or train due to the mega traffic block all over the city and who had to travel 40-50 km long distances walking as the blast was made during the week day evening when people return from offices and use roads or local railways for travel back their homes.

The blood banks (We r talking about 10000 Blood banks throughout the city) are full of blood for needies. The blood banks had to discourage people from donating any further blood!

The medical students arranged quick overnight services for the needies in the hospitals. The chemists all over the city, kept shops opened even in night.

Do u know, these local people we r talking abt are no big literates or educated ppl. They come from the lower middle class \ middle class of the society. Some hardly had finished their primary education.

And this aid was seen not only at a station but all 7 of them which were blasted

Are Mumbaites really rude?
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jul, 2006 03:47 am
Of course not. The dweebs at the Reader's Digest, who rated New York City as the politest (gag), wrote their usual thin soup as if it were the thickest stew.

Here in New York there are humans.
There in Mumbai there are humans.

We will find a way.


Joe
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vinsan
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jul, 2006 05:18 am
Thats right Joe. Some magazines do anything to fill their material.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jul, 2006 05:26 am
vinsan

According to news reports we've received here in Oz, the response from ordinary folk in the streets of Mumbai was truly impressive.






(Don't you just hate those "world's best" this & that lists? Rolling Eyes)
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spidergal
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 08:48 am
Soon after the survey issue appeared, Suketu Mehta, New York based columnist (or whatever he is) got his opinion aired through India Today. Obviously, born in Mumbai, he lashed out at the surveyers. Consequently, a lot of India Today readers sent in their compliants regarding the survey to the IT editor. The Reader Digest editor, Mohan Sivanand, has now come up to apologise through India Today. I just got my IT issue today and saw the apology (though it doen't look like one) on the Letters to the Editor page.


Mohan Sivanand wrote:
For the survey, Reader's Digest took cultural factors into account, and so a Mumbai shopkeeper, who did not say "thank you" but responded with a kind word or smile, was given points. The second test was not about opening doors, but holding a door open for somebody just behind you in a public place - which has to do with concern for fellow citizens anywhere, and not just in the West. Nowhere in our July 2006 issue did we say that Mumbai was the rudest city. All we said was that Mumbai came last in a test of politeness. Moreover, even with a score of 32 percent, a 1.4 million-strong Mumbai may have more polite people than the whole of Toronto, which is second in the survey.
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spidergal
 
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Reply Fri 21 Jul, 2006 06:33 am
Have a look at this poll.

I, obviously, voted for our Mumbai. The poll is running and you can vote.
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