Janice Turner writing in The Times today wonders if we are getting worse in our dealings with other people, getting angry over small matters, drawing knives, road raging etc. Maybe it has something to do with the way we live now, it's all rush and hard work and frustration at little things going wrong.
Maybe.
I can't help thinking of what Fred Zinneman, the film director, said when he was on Desert Island Discs many years ago. He said that if there was an accident on the road with two cars colliding in England, the drivers got out and exchanged addresses and insurance policy info; if the same thing occurred in France the drivers got out and fought each other; and if in Italy they tried to kill each other.
Stereotypes of course. But is there some truth in the remarks? Or is it just old fashioned racialism?
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