Good Manners Are Contagious

Are we improving our manners in the IT age ?


Providing education to children has been a development for the last 200 years but to some Third World countries, 50 years or so, children started to get educated. The first day in school, the child is taught to follow a set of good manners. Who is him is not important when it comes to the question of manners. Good manners is to be accord everyone irrespective of who he is.


What are the mannerism level before the birth of IT and after the birth of IT ? If manners is now fast degenerating, what causes it ?


Would,

• materialism causes manners to decay ?
• discrimination destroy manners ? 
• modern education pursue overwriting manners ? 

One should treat others, as one would like others to treat oneself - THE GOLDEN RULE

 
Good manners are a method of getting along with people. Aren't our teachers teaching this rule as a 'first thing first' on the first day of school ? And what is lacking to drain yesteryear good manners, when this rule is repeatedly used many times in a day for five days a week. As the teacher walked through the door of the class, irrespective of our sex, race or religion, we stood up and together at the same time, we voiced out our manners, ' Good morning, Sir ' What a misfortune, when after years in the primary level and years in the secondary level, the result of the practitioner of good manners is naught or nought.


Good manners are (or were) so contagious that if we are kind and thoughtful in our treatment of others they will most likely behave in the same way toward us. If we remember this basic rule, most of our etiquette problems will vanish. What happen when the materialistic begin not to appreciate good manners but instead assumed such etiquette is used on them because of their status in the society. The high status man signaled to the giver that the good manners isn't true.


Good manners don't discriminate the females and the males, races or religions and so, it is important that when good manners is taking place, the receiver has to appreciate, accept and receive the good manners extended by the giver. Even our casual road manners bear this out. If we walked three abreast along the walk-way, we're not to get shock that a passer-by may jostles us a little more roughly than need be. In rain, a pedestrian could so aggressive that he uses the umbrella like a shield while charges forward and put a strain on the patience of those he crosses.  The traffic rule of keeping to the right is another example of good road manners. So, we now agree that good manners come from the hearts rather than from the pages of our books.


Good manners is good while bad manners is bad. Bad manners eat up the tolerance of the other one and it is never known how tolerable one is. Good manners is a code of conduct worked out and accepted by people in general as a means of living together in harmony. If we insist on ignoring this code and following our impulses, we shall reach a split and that only happens when there is no longer good manners in place. Or good manners are graded and accorded with the social status of the man. When no selection of the level of good manners to cater to man's status exist, harmony persist. But when bad manners become a common matter, the good has gone. Good manners are contagious.