Are We Really Smarter?

Social behavior varies from one culture to another and it is interesting how different people from different cultures react under certain circumctances.  However and in almost every culture, most people generalize or derive their conclusions about others from the first impression.   Many of us though leaves a bad first impression due to a very tempting assumption.

Many assume that they are smarter than the person they are talking to and guess what?  In many cases they are wrong.  Many of them think that this tricky move is buying them respect and power but in most cases this backfires really hard.  This is how many people do it here:

1. They talk to someone assuming they are smarter.
2. They realize they are not specially after ones disapproval on many inaccuracies or fallacies.
3. They retreat and give the person the space to express his/her point.
4. They end up talking to him/her as he/she is smarter.
5. They lose his/her respect.

Talking to a friend about that, he adds a very important observation;  "After their realization that they are not smarter, they proceed using the same conversation technique with another person and this goes on and on."