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RE: Gratitude or Fault-Finding: Where Do You Focus Your Energy?
I used to be one of those overly positive types myself.
Now, I am looking for perspicacity, so I know better when to be easy-going and when it is time to let myself be known.
I don't see anything wrong with an upbeat attitude AS LONG AS it doesn't go overboard to where it clearly comes across as fake.
You made me think of something kind of funny.
We have already discussed some of the differences between European cultures and American cultures in the comment sections of your articles.
One difference is how intensely friendly servers in restaurants or even in the cashier in a gas station is as compared to Europe, or France anyway. It is one of the things I find slightly unnerving the first few days I am back for a visit.
Well... I am suddely in the position where I need to come back for quite some time. Having got out of the habit of smiling alot, I wonder if I am going to be seen as dour in the US? ;-)
Interesting!
My wife is US born (although of Danish extraction) and I remember the first time we went back to Denmark with our (then) 21-year old daughter and her BFF... in no time at all, they had identified something they started calling "The Danish Glare," which is basically how Danes look at each other when they are not friends... just completely neutral. But to a pair of barely adult American girls... it came across as scowling.
I'm still seen as a bit "stiff" here, and I've lived here since 1981...