Where did manners go?

Yesterday was Halloween. The kids walked into my year 6 class in the last period yesterday with their hands out saying okashi choudai "Give me lollies." Yep, cos that's how it works. They didn't even say it in English, they were just being rude in Japanese. Even if I did have lollies, which I clearly didn't, I wouldn't have handed them over after a demand like that! I just laughed at them and they were heaps disappointed. It really annoys me how much the kids here just expect things to be given to them, or bought for them. And if they don't get it, they are certainly not afraid to ask for it in as impolite a manner as possible. You can see it when they are in kindy before school manages to tame them and then it comes out again in year 5 or so when the kids start testing the school rules. The kindy kids are very demanding and gimme gimme all the time. As soon as I walk in there they start pulling things out of my hands, touching everything and opening boxes without being invited or asking if it's ok. They have absolutely no concept of asking before touching another person's property. Yuck. Call me old fashioned but I like a kid with a certain degree of respect for other people.