It is fair to say that most people do not attend a formal manners school. Manners, etiquette, and mannerism is learned through observation and emulation. People learn their manners at school, home, work and other places where they interact with other people. Few people may take the time to read books on the subject. As a consequence, even most highly educated people tend to stumble and run into embarrassing situations for themselves and others. Many a times behavior perfectly acceptable in other cultures may not be as acceptable in the society you live in today. Immigrants tend to run into this problem more often than others.
The simple fact is that how you speak, behave and dress defines where you stand on the rungs of a polite society. With all the riches you may have earned through your success is a wash if your manners and etiquette does not map with that of people you interact. This results in isolation, embarrassment and sometimes humiliation.
The goal of this blog is to educate all people on etiquette and other related matters. This blog is a compilation of shared experience of lots of people. It gets richer as more people share their anecdotes with the author. These are very courageous people! They are willing to talk about these situations which are not exactly very comforting.
Ask yourself the following questions and you would know if you should take the time to read through this blog.
1. Have you wondered whether the coffee cup to your right is yours or the one on the left while seated down for dinner?
2. Have your host introduced somebody else to you but forgot to introduce you to the other person?
3. Have you showed up at a party in your shorts and everybody is elegantly dressed for the party?
4. ...
If the answer to these questions is yes, take the time to read through this blog periodically.
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