I think its rude to casually ask people how they're doing.

It seems to be considered common courtesy but I don't think it should be. Its rude to casually remind people of all their problems if you don't want to stick around to hear about them.

Its different if they actually care about your response, but most of the time you have to lie through your teeth to give a expected response of "good, how are you?" And most of the time they don't even answer because they're already walking away.

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Amyrakunejo · F

Given the most casual, informal greeting in my native tongue essentially translates to "Greetings; how are you?" in English, and it is mainly used to greet people we don't necessarily know, I disagree entirely.

Then again, I just mentioned the contextual clause exception too; for those I do know, I would not use that greeting, and especially not for those I am close to. Since English is a conlang whose contextual enforcement is lax as fuck, I would definitely understand if one were to see my native tongue's most casual and informal greeting as rude, but ask yourself this:

What if you didn't know English at all?