NEW YORK THE POLITEST CITY IN THE WORLD? GET OUTTA HERE!

June 20, 2006 (Scotsman) - New York is the most polite place in the world, according to a survey which ranked its famously brusque citizens well ahead of those in London in kindness and good manners. The Big Apple scored 80 per cent in a series of tests, including dropping papers in a street in a busy area, seeing how long it took for someone to help, noting whether doors were held open and if shop assistants said thank you after making a sale.

Reader's Digest magazine carried out the tests by sending journalists to cities in 35 countries. London and Paris were in joint 15th place with a score of 57 per cent, while India's Mumbai [scil., Bombay] came bottom with 32 per cent.

"This was the world's biggest real-life test of common courtesy," [Katherine Walker, the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest British edition] said. "The results were often surprising and consistently thought-provoking."

Have a nice day.

PFFT (What is this?): American nice-itude 4 | Rayonnement français 0

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well, from my experience, i wouldn't have said NYC was the politest. But certainly Paris isn't!

BTW, today was a gleeful day for ol'Jacquot. I can't even remember the last time he did or said something good, so this definitely has to be praised.
I just hope they'll never change its name to "Musée Jacques Chirac"