I take grim pleasure from rebouncing in a somewhat Klingon attitude every stranger trying to hug and kiss me. While it may be social convention developed over long time in Southern America and mediterranean countries, it certainly is no social convention in Middle and Northern Europe.
I already feel pissed when walking through an Ikea market and every sign and poster there adresses me with "Du" instead of "Sie". That may be convention in Sweden. But in Germany, it simply is crude and chumming up.
But as I see it there is a massive trend for
infantilisation of social conventions and
media.
As a German comedian, I think, put it some time ago, today the mother does not go to a parents meeting at her son's school and introduces herself with "Guten Abend, ich bin Frau Meier", but she trills: "
Hallöchen allerseits, ich bin die
Mutti vom kleinen
Linus!"
Bootcamp. All of them.
