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 “Manners Make the Man.”, as an English saying goes. But in the modern world, where Man is concerned with so many serious global problems, do manners really matter any more? Some modern writers and thinkers believe that they do, and have recently decided to explore the subject, convinced that manners are as desirable as they were in the past, or maybe even more so, in our busy and overcrowded urban societies.

    For many years manners were associated with a highly restrictive code of behavior. A hundred years ago correct behavior was, in fact, often used to enforce the class sys...

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 “Manners Make the Man.”, as an English saying goes. But in the modern world, where Man is concerned with so many serious global problems, do manners really matter any more? Some modern writers and thinkers believe that they do, and have recently decided to explore the subject, convinced that manners are as desirable as they were in the past, or maybe even more so, in our busy and overcrowded urban societies.

    For many years manners were associated with a highly restrictive code of behavior. A hundred years ago correct behavior was, in fact, often used to enforce the class system. Of course, many of the old rules are also unsuitable for modern society. “Always open the door for a lady” is both patronizing and sexist. “Children should be seen and not heard” has always been much too severe! However, many people would like to return to the days when we were more openly respectful of each other, and used the words please and thank you in conversations with strangers and friends.

    However, we often seem to associate manners with weakness. People who are considerate are ridiculed and laughed at as being old-fashioned, conformist and conservative, rather than civilized, respectful, courteous, and thoughtful – merely interested in improving the quality of our lives. But surely motorists should not have to fight for a place on the road, shoppers should not have to argue with “the clever people” pushing into the queue, and teachers should not be afraid of their students.

“禮儀成就不凡的人。”，正如一句英國諺語。但在現代世界，在那里人類關注著這麼多嚴肅的全球問題，禮儀真的重要嗎？一些現代作家和思想家相信他們這樣做，並且最近決定探索主題，確信舉止和他們在過去，或者甚至更多，在我們繁忙而擁擠的城市裡社會。

   多年來，舉止與高度限制性的行為準則。一百年前，正確的行為實際上是常用於強制執行階級制度。當然，很多老規則也不適合現代社會。 “總是開門對於一位女士”既是光顧又是性別歧視。 “孩子們應該被看到而沒有聽到“一直太嚴重了！然而，許多人們想回到我們更公開的日子互相尊重，並使用“請”和“謝謝”這兩個詞與陌生人和朋友的談話。

    然而，我們似乎經常將禮貌與弱點聯繫起來。體貼的人被嘲笑和嘲笑守舊，墨守成規，保守，而不是文明，尊重、禮貌和體貼——只對改進感興趣我們的生活質量。但肯定駕駛者不應該打架對於路上的一個地方，購物者不應該與“聰明人”擠進隊列，老師不應該害怕他們的學生。