<p>While personally, I thought that the “talk like a pirate week” was a lot more fun, this is wheat we have upcoming this week. National etiquette week. Think we can make efforts towards common courtesy in discourse?</p>
<p>Meant to attach the document/proclamation thing. <a href=“http://www.etiquetteleadership.com/NEWfiles/National%20Etiquette%20Week%202009%20backgrounder.doc[/url]”>http://www.etiquetteleadership.com/NEWfiles/National%20Etiquette%20Week%202009%20backgrounder.doc</a> So sorry. Deepest apologies. Begging forgiveness :)</p>
<p>I always thought that the high school should teach business etiquette. So many kids have the manners of a barbarian.</p>
<p>Depends on your ideas of what is proper etiquette. I can think of many changes that are both good and bad. We spent our college years training a male friend that he didn’t have to open and hold doors for us girls- women’s lib days, as well as impractical to make him rush to be first at a door then wait for a bunch of us to troop through. Needing to use certain dinner forks et al is ridiculous. There has to be a practical reason for actions- hopefully the business community has evolved in this direction. We need to keep in mind WHY some conventions are followed- historical resaons do not suffice. Being honest is always best, no pussyfooting around issues just to be proper. Kids would learn if they were taught the effects of their actions on others. I shudder at many practices considered “proper”. Etc. Common courtesies such as “please” and “thank you” are good.</p>
<p>jym, perhaps you should post this in the political forum. :)</p>
<p>^^^ Don’t think I didn’t think about it, alwaysamom!</p>
<p>Actually, alwaysamom, I forgot-- I had referenced and linked the paper on National Etiquette Week in the “right to own a gun” thread in the political forum.</p>