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I grew up in New York City. Eye contact is the LAST thing you want to have on the street there. If you make eye contact with the wrong type of person, you have made a friend for the next two hours. And, worse than the average street nut, there are also true psychotics who feel eye contact is an attack on them. Then you are in for real trouble. This stuff about the wonderfulness of eye contact is absolutely wrong.
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Skoonj, everyone in Oklahoma City makes eye contact, then we say "hey how are ya", then we just keep walking, till we get to the next stranger. It's all just so nice...
It wasn't until I left NYC for good at the age or 21, to join the Air Force, in 1970 that I found out that other places were different so far as eye contact is concerned. To those who have been to NYC, have you not noticed the reluctance to make eye contact there?
I even remember radio talker Jean Shepherd (WOR-NY) discussing this same issue in the late 1960s, with the same observations. He was from Indiana, and it really struck him when he arrived.
I worked with a major Florida law enforcement agency, which sized up people based partly on whether they would look them in the eye. I had to let them know that for New Yorkers, they would need some other means of assessment.
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ReplyDeleteI grew up in New York City. Eye contact is the LAST thing you want to have on the street there. If you make eye contact with the wrong type of person, you have made a friend for the next two hours. And, worse than the average street nut, there are also true psychotics who feel eye contact is an attack on them. Then you are in for real trouble. This stuff about the wonderfulness of eye contact is absolutely wrong.
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ReplyDeleteSkoonj, everyone in Oklahoma City makes eye contact, then we say "hey how are ya", then we just keep walking, till we get to the next stranger. It's all just so nice...
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until I left NYC for good at the age or 21, to join the Air Force, in 1970 that I found out that other places were different so far as eye contact is concerned. To those who have been to NYC, have you not noticed the reluctance to make eye contact there?
ReplyDeleteI even remember radio talker Jean Shepherd (WOR-NY) discussing this same issue in the late 1960s, with the same observations. He was from Indiana, and it really struck him when he arrived.
I worked with a major Florida law enforcement agency, which sized up people based partly on whether they would look them in the eye. I had to let them know that for New Yorkers, they would need some other means of assessment.
I was doing really well with the eye contact thing until I rolled the picture up the rest of the way.
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