The art of reading a message and not responding, either via email or text, that fine art of saliently ignoring a message that some folks have mastered with perfection, that delicately balanced fine art of ignoring people, you see an email or get a text, read it but just sit there and don't say a word, ignore it. The sender waits and waits for a response but you don't find it in you to respond to them. And you don't even feel the guilt, or feel like "hey, I'm missing something." What is that type of indifference called? What school of thought is responsible for this fine craft? I'm not too sure I want to learn it but I can see a lot of people, especially in Nigeria have developed mastery of this fine art of silence.
I think it's just rude and very poor manners. It's a different thing if you can't get to the response then or don't have an immediate response, you respond when you do...or you say, "Hey, I'll get back to you when I've sorted the details, or when I have a response." You just don't stay silent throughout. That just doesn't speak well of your manners. I know human error accounts for a lot of stuff but to some, it's just part of their nature. They just have this fine art down pat. They jump at exhibiting it the first chance they get.
And that to me, is one of the things I just can't wrap my head around. With Nigerians and their lack of etiquette, and with a lot of other things. You start to wonder, where did they learn this stuff from and how fast can they unlearn it? Do they even want to unlearn it? I hope so. I most definitely hope so.
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