Toronto - A Polite City
Toronto’s citizens can hold their heads high in the wake of the Reader’s Digest “Global Courtesy Test”. The survey used undercover reporters to assess 2,000 people in 35 different countries, observing how they behaved in three situations:
- whether people help someone to pick up papers they have dropped in the street
- whether shop assistants say “thank you” after making a sale
- whether people hold doors open to people following them into a public building
Worldwide, men were more polite with other men and women more polite with other women.
The survey results were:
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1 New York (80%) |
19 Paris (57%) |
21 Jun 2006