Re: Look me in the eye
In the old days in English schools, the student never looked at the teacher directly as a mark of respect...Always looked down...
In well educated families, even today in America, when a father reprimands his son, the son never makes eye contact but looks down...
During drill instructions, the sargeant or the drill instructor is never looked in the eyes...
In Japan, the highest sign of disrespect is making eye contact with your senior or superior...
In Buddhist culture, it was considered highly disrespectful if a Lama or a priest was made eye contact with...
And many other examples...
But of course, in redneckistan, someone practicing their culture or social norms is questioned, poked, made fun of or must be made to change...
Don't blame you at all...
You really have no clue. Your pomposity while you go on with your clueless diatribes are quite amusing. No one is poking fun or insulting here except you. Rednecks have no clue about social, academic and business etiquette, kinda like you. You talk of Bhuddist culture, Japanese culture, military culture and ancient English academia, NONE of which have to due with modern American social and academia culture which this thread addresses.
I suggest you study Business Etiquette, Miss Manners, or any other modern American culture study of social norms and mores and you will find that it is disrespectul to not make eye contact. As I alluded, if you even knew what a real redneck was, you would know they don't have the social knowledge to even know eye contact is a show of respect in American society.
I will say it again, your closed-mindedness, social ignorance and insulting manner much more mimics trailor park trash than anything I aspire to. You are no better than the 'trailor park' mentality you lament.
Your insulting rants are only verification that your self claimed piety and righteousness have as much validity as the idealogy you advocate.