How are you today?

@gambrel said
I'm more of a
It's non of your business how I'm doing, don't talk to me
Kind of guy

LOL@ gambrel, who you kidding Willis? 🙂

-VR

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There was nothing "Anglocentric" or "narrow-minded" about what I said. There are shallow people greeting each other in shallow ways all over the world and in all the cultures I have adapted to. The issue is the shallowness of such people. The expression "How are you?" is not shallow in and of itself. There is nothing "Anglocentric" or "narrow-minded" about this observation.

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This is true.

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I didn't "apparently insist" anything of the sort.

@very-rusty said
LOL@ gambrel, who you kidding Willis? 🙂

-VR

I've always been unfriendly. It's worse now that I'm older.

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Tabloid-esque and/or clickbait lists/screeds of this kind are not going to tackle the fact that shallow people are going to say shallow things and interact in shallow ways.

This does not make the question "How are you?" inherently shallow.

Language just is a tool that people use ~ and this is true for every culture in the world.

"Between the pandemic and hellscape that is 2020, "How are you?"
just doesn't cut it anymore."

If anything, it probably "cuts it" even more now than before the pandemic as the answer to the much-maligned question is most likely exactly what the person asking the question wants to know. I believe Ghost of a Duke said something similar.