Ai Weiwei: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Ai Weiwei

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Hugh Grant Actor

Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗

I don’t like false or opportunistic people.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗

Cruelty. I don’t see the point.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

When people are rude to their waiter.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Now, in this moment, in this city.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

To survive from an impossible condition.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 April 2018 source ↗

Losing consciousness or awareness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.