re: It amazes me how unusual common courtesy is to people in the north

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Sounds like you're a sucker.

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Sounds like you're a miserable POS

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This isn't "common courtesy". This is a colloquialism that is prevailing in the South.

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You show respect, you get respect. That’s how it works, and why for the most part, northeasterners dont receive respect from others because everyone is waiting to receive it before giving it. That’s not how any of this works.

When this finally does end in the south, there seriously won’t be any reason to live here any longer. It’s one of the most special and endearing qualities of the south, and I hope to God I don’t see the day when it’s entirely gone.

I’m not lessened by saying yes ma’am/no ma’am, and yes sir/no sir. If anything, it’s my pleasure to say so, and is a reflection of my parents when I do so, in as much as it is when people don’t.

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Mo Jeaux

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You sound like one bitter a-hole.

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NYC

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Checks out.

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This isn't "common courtesy". This is a colloquialism that is prevailing in the South.

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Wrong. It's just common courtesy. Being polite. Showing that you have a proper upbringing.

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Why should someone hold the door open for you?

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Because they are polite and it's the right thing to do?

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Sounds like you're a sucker.

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Eh... at least I'm polite.

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saying “yes ma’am/sir”

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This isn't "common courtesy". This is a colloquialism that is prevailing in the South.

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He's right, despite all the downvotes. I grew up in an area of the midwest where people are genuinely friendly but we had no idea that people actually used these. When I moved to Baton Rouge I got my teachers pretty pissed by not saying m'am/sir. Outside of the south people just don't do this, it's just not a part of common courtesy there.