Re: Memons
Manners: I agree, Memons aren't all well-mannered. We haven't been taught to patiently wait in line for our food.
Humility: I have to disagree there. Humility is one of the old treasured memons traits - hence the cheapness. We don't ever like to show what we have, because we are humble. But we're too humble, so it comes across as cheapness. I refuse, for example, to tell people what I do, where I study, where I work, how much money I make, how much inheritance I have, what my parents do, etc. Its not about being stingy, but that I don't want anyone to know these things lest they feel bad, or it comes across as boasting. I was even double thinking whether I should say that I know the people who built and run pak towers, because even that sounds like boasting.
Its not that we like the dollar bill or the rupee. We like the fact that we can earn it, and then use it to make our society better. We have economist-philosophies.
That certainly does not mean we don't have any values. You're being too judgemental.