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Week 7: Response to "Differences in Manners"


12/15/19


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What do you know about manners around the world? 

Let's see. Answer the next questions: 

  1. What do you do when you see someone for the first time in an informal situation? a) shake hands, b) kiss them on the cheek or c) you bow.
  2. What do you do when you met a friend or a relative? a) shake hands, b) you kiss them on the cheek or c) you hug them.
  3. If someone next to you sneezes, what do you do? a) ignore it, b) you say: "bless you" or c) you say: "Cheers."
  4. If you arrange to meet someone at a certain time, you find it...a) normal arrive 10 minutes late, b) rude not be on time, c) normal to arrive 30 minutes late.
  5. You see an elderly person standing on the bus. There are no seats left. What do you do? a) you pretend you don't see the person and you keep doing what you are doing in your comfortable seat, b) you ask the person next to you to give up her/his seat, c) you immediately stand up and give your seat.
Those are some examples of how maybe some people can react to certain situations. It does not mean that you are rude or mean, something is simply that in different cultures people have different manners. Like brother explained in some cultures people not walk around with their hands in their pockets. Others maybe do not sit on a table or put their elbows on it. 
On August 2011 the New Era magazine Kaye Terry Hanson wrote an article  "Manners still makes sense" because people notice if you have good manners. The author also gives three suggestions to have good manners:

  • Know those good manners make good sense. (Cultural manners)
  •  Try to meeting and greeting and talk to people. 
  • Say thank you and say nice things. 

Respect other people manners and ask politely was it accepted in their culture. 
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