Social categorisation for beginners

[andrewducker]

1.) People who don't grok social cues = Asperger's Syndrome
2.) People who see, yet choose not to acknowledge social cues = Quite possibly Sociopathic
3.) People who only use social "cues" (hints) to communicate = Passive Aggressive

Stolen from the ever-sparkly autodidactic

Comments

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I'd modify number 1 to accommodate cultural differences. I simply don't have the innate awareness of some social contexts that British people do. (F'rinstance, I will offer the electrician a cup of tea, but it's because I have consciously learned that this is correct behavior in my current social context, not because I instinctively offer tea to anyone who walks through the door.)

[andrewducker]

Well, if you don't instinctively offer tea to anyone who walks through the door then you're clearly not British...

[pisica.livejournal.com]

And yet that is not part of the Britishness test I will have to take to become a citizen! Clearly this test is WRONG.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Perhaps tea-related activities are so British that even strange foreign types shouldn't need to be tested on this - when you spend more than 72 consecutive hours in the balmy climes of Blighty, you should have the inherent knowledge of tea rituals embedded in your psyche.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because I live in Scotland, land of 'you'll have had your tea'?

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Well, isn't that about the different cultural meanings of tea - tea as a drink or tea as a meal?

[jccw.livejournal.com]

Not part of the written test, anyway...

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Oh bloomin 'eck, there's a practical?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. This will involve eating picnics outside on freezing cold beaches in force 8 gales while not choking on sand, eating cockles and mussels, and singing Cockney songs round the piano in an "East end pub" TM.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's not entirely a parallel situation, but let's say that the electrician starts hinting about his cup of tea - I am quite likely not to pick up on his social cues unless I have already consciously observed or been told that it is accepted behaviour to offer said cuppa.