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From ‘Iowa nice’ to New England blunt, how do we define ‘nice’ in America?

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Have you ever heard someone say that East Coasters are kind but not nice, and West Coasters are nice but not kind?

This hour, a look at what “niceness” is, why it’s so important to us, and how it can sometimes mask not-so-nice things.

GUESTS:

  • Carrie Tirado Bramen: Professor at the University at Buffalo and the author of 
  • Jordan Green: Self-proclaimed “kind West Coaster”
  • Amit Kumar: Assistant professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Mia Mercado: Humor writer and author from the Midwest who wrote 

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, Cat Pastor, and Lily Tyson contributed to this show, which originally aired January 25, 2024.

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Carolyn McCusker helps produce The Colin McEnroe Show. She loves making true radio stories and listening to fake ones. In the past, she’s worked for NPR and WNYC, and she’s glad to be back at CT Public after interning in 2019. Carolyn can be reached at cmccusker@ctpublic.org.