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Etiquette and Manners
As a child you must have been
told to greet your elders and
visitors to your home according to
your culture and tradition. You
must also have been taught to
be polite in company and keep
quiet while others,
especially your
elders, spoke. Possibly, you at
times
grudged such schooling.
Possibly, at times you even
protested such disciplining. Now,
certainly you know that you can’t
always
behave the way you want
specially in the presence of
others. There are rules of
behaviour you have to follow in a
company. We are social beings
and have to
consider the effect
of our behaviour on others, even
if we are at home and dealing
with our family members.
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We have two terms to describe
our social behaviour- ‘
etiquette‘
and ‘manners.’ ‘Etiquette’ is a
French word and it means the
rules correct behaviour in society.
The word ‘
manners‘ means the
behaviour that is considered to
be polite in a particular society or
culture. Manners can be good or
bad. For example, it is a bad
manner to speak with food in
one’s mouth. No one likes a bad-
mannered person. Remember that
etiquette and manners vary from
future to culture and from society
to society.
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We learn etiquette and manners
from our parents, families and
varous institutions, such as
schools, colleges or professionl
bodies. There are rules of
behaviour for all kinds of social
occasions and it is important to
learn them and
practise them in
everyday life. The manners that
are
correct in a wedding reception
will not do in a debating club.
Therefore, we have to be careful
about etiquette and manners. We
know how important it is to say
‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in
everyday life. A few more polite
expressions such as ‘pardon me’,
‘may I’, are bound to make your
day smooth and
pleasant.
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Here are some basic rules of
etiquette:
Respect others’ personal space.
Don’t interrupt when someone
else is talking.
Be a helper.
Be on time.
Don’t yell in public places.
Eat politely.
Chew with your mouth closed.
Stand in queue.
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There are many more. How many
more can you add to the above
list? Here are some thoughtful
observations on manners and
etequette from some famous
people
Respect for ourselves guides our
morals; respect for others guides
our manners.” Laurence Sterne
Life is short, but there is always
time enough for courtesy.” Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The real test of good manners is
to be able to put up with bad
manners.” Kahlil Gibran
“Handsome is what handsome
does.” J R Tolkein
“Politeness is a sign of
dignity,
not subservience.” Theodore
Roosevelt
“A man’s manners are a mirror in
which he shows his portrait.”
Johann wolfgang von Goethe
“Whoever interrupts the
conversation of others to make a
display of his fund of knowledge
makes notorious his stock of
ignorance.” Shaikh Sa’di
Etiquette is a fine tuning of
education.”
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