Please, sorry, thank you with a cheerful face, will make you popular and earn you many friends.
The people of the Fast East eat in silence. To them it is bad manners to talk during a meal. We think that helping to carry on a conversation is an important part of good table manners.
In Tibet, it is proper to stick out your tongue when guests leave. It means that you have enjoyed listening to the conversation.
Thus, manners differ throughout the world. But everywhere the rules of etiquette answer the same set of questions:-
a) How should strangers be introduced?
b) How are guests greeted?
c) How are you guests seen off?
d) How should elders be treated?
e) What are good table manners?
f) How should a person dress for different social occasions?
Why do we have rules of etiquette? Good manners help us to get on smoothly with others. But why cannot each person follow his won ideas regarding politeness?
The danger lies in the fact that a person who is trying to polite might be misunderstood. Having rules of etiquette is helpful because everyone understand them.
No matter how our rules of etiquette came to be. People are likely to make fun of us if we break them. If we do this very often, probably on one would like to interact with us. For this reason many people are more careful about following the rules of good manners than they are about following some laws. They would rather go past a red light in their hurry to reach office but will never be caught reading a letter over somebody’s shoulder.
We should remember that justice is the necessary human quality, from justice there comes love. Etiquette, good manners and politeness blossom into love.
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