The Civility In America survey can make for some gloomy reading: two-thirds (65%) of people think that the US has a major civility problem, and 55% expect a lock of civility to become the norm.
All of us, I'm sure, can readily think of instances of being on the receiving end of incivility: be it while driving, shopping on at the workplace. So I doubt that these statistics would truly surprise anyone.
This being the second annual nationwide survey, we don't have enough data to tell if this trend has been on the uptick historically, but I reckon that if there were such data, it would be more or less similar to the numbers we have now.
Civility training should begin with parents and continue in the educational system, turning the tide of incivility and restoring respect back into society.
