What Bugs You?
EUROPEANS WORRY MORE ABOUT TRASH THAN ABOUT CURSING
Survey in 17 Countries: Citizens Find Littering Most Offensive
By Wolfgang Polzer
STUTTGART (ANS) -- Europeans
are more upset about litter than about cursing. That is one of the
results of a survey in 17 European countries carried out by the
magazine Reader’s Digest in Stuttgart, Germany.
The magazine gave citizens a choice of 20 incidents and asked them
which ones they found most annoying. At the top of the list with 86
percent came “people who just throw their trash away”. In second place
are dog droppings on sidewalks (82). Jumping the waiting line is in
third place (81).
Cursing and swearing came in 14th place. 52 percent of all Europeans
are irritated by foul language. The same number say that operating
instructions of mobile phones get on their nerves.
What Europeans find least offensive are smoking in public (50), road
construction (35) and low necklines or short skirts (22).
Wolfgang Polzer (55), is senior
news editor of the Evangelical News Agency idea, Wetzlar (Germany),
which he joined in 1981. His previous work included four years in the
editorial department of the Salvation Army in Germany. In all, he has
spent 27 years in Christian media. Wolfgang can be contacted by e-mail
at:
Wolfgang.Polzer@idea.de. |
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