Norms For Politeness

She gives examples of both personal experiences of rudeness and of people in the public media acting under stress and not really thinking or caring about what comes out of their mouth. She describes examples of being generally rude through history dating back all the way to the romans all the way up to the presidential candidates of the United States. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald trump have both said some things on television that they would later regret, such as Hillary saying that half of Donald trump fans are quote for quote “a basket of deplorables” and Donald trump passive aggressively making comments. The article can also have points in it where it gives tips on what one should do with being polite or how to spot out what flaws one could have in their personality that would make them a rude

The article Racial Etiquette #1 explains how unfairly blacks were treated along with the actions of blacks and white in reaction to the expected rules of society. This article shows how it was normal for blacks to be discriminated against by explaining their expected behaviors. “A black came to the back door, not the front door, of a white man’s house. He was received, if at all, in the kitchen or porch, not in the living room” (paragraph 4). It was normal for blacks to be treated like they were less than whites, and it was expected for them to accept this and act in ways that reflect this notion.

The Southern States of the United States of America have been victims of perceptions and stereotypes that tend to describe them as different from the rest of the United States, especially in terms of culture. These portray the South as rural, uneducated, conservative, racist, and violent. While there are varied opinions on these perceptions this paper will seek to look at whether the South is rural, racist and violent. It is true that incidents of gruesome violence have occurred in the Southern states. Similarly, these states have a significant population of rural dwellers, as well as an expansive amount of underdeveloped territory. However, it is important to note that these occurrences are not autonomous to the southern states but are also characteristic of other states outside the southern region. At the same time, the prosperity, racial tolerance, quality education, etc. observed in states outside the South are equally observed in Southern states. Therefore, the position held in this paper is that the collective generalization or notion that the south is rural, violent and racist needs revisions.

Over the course of the last several decades, the polarization of American society’s use of positive and negative social etiquette in all interactions has reached its greatest level in recorded history. Never before have we been more aware of the greater events taking place in the world, yet ignorant and uncaring of the smaller more personal intricacies of our daily lives. At least, this is what freelance writer Todd Schwartz would lead us to believe in his thought provoking paper “American Jerk”. The majority of statements Schwartz’ makes in this article are accurate for the majority of American society, yet he draws several flawed parallels and fails to provide the necessary information to prove his greater accusations. This results in

The author is deliberately being bias. Schwartz must do so to give us a starting point into the eventual interpretation he wants us to do. By narrowing his scope on Americans in everyday use, he prevents his claim from broadening to a point where we lose tough with his message. For example, in Paragraph 8 it says “we’re talking to someone all the time, but it’s ever more rarely to the people we are actually with.”(Schwartz 8). You may not particularly agree with this statement, but this now gives you a standpoint to help make your own judgment on civility in America. So far tone and bias have played quite a role, but there is yet another to tool at the writer’s disposal to help his

Judge Paul Heath Till’s essay “Morals, Manners, Customs, and Public Perception” has a very unique structure that helps the effectiveness of the authors argument. He starts off by giving reasons why people are lacking manners in everyday life. He also gives definitions of the words manner, manners, moral, and customs and then goes further to discuss the true meaning of these words. He also relates his life experiences and his personal beliefs to the topic at hand.

This is a useful trait to have in almost anyone’s life. It helps to put others at ease, to help them like you. The less that someone dislikes you the less likely they are to go out of their way to make your life harder or to perhaps attempt to end it. Being polite can solve a whole host of problems before they start, to persuade people to help you or to at least not hinder you. Mannerisms as a whole are important simply because while they are not entirely necessary there are many cases where having them is going to be more helpful than the gun that might have been at their waist, violence cannot solve every

The rise of Jim Crow, a system of sustainable racial inequality, had a significant scope on racial relations for subsequent years to come. Jim Crow laws and its prescribed etiquette operated and represented the legitimization of anti blackness primarily but not exclusively in southern states of the United States. Scholarship has justifiably surveyed these codes of conduct with stressing African American disenfranchisement. However, violence has been presumed as a byproduct of the Jim Crow system, rather than a mechanism that was used to undergird Jim Crow’s place in America’s society.

Throughout the development of the United States, there has been an obvious division between the North and South. This is because of the difference in the core values held by each of these areas. Still today, there is a widely pronounced shift between the North and South, because we do not share the same core beliefs. These values include a strong work ethic and racism being salient in the South and equality and democracy being important in the North. It is because of these different ideals that lead the way to the huge shift in culture within these two regions.

Sir Frances Bacon said, “If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them,” (Jenkins, 1994). This quote represents all the core values that I cherish and to which I adhere. Personal culture doesn’t have to be linked to a certain country of origin or a specific ethnicity; it can be as simple as a person’s core values. The Southern way of life is a culture all in itself.

There was once a time in history in which people were scared to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. According to “Many aspects of Society Are Less Civil” by Paul Thoms, manners may have been a form of strict etiquette society had a form of courtesy. Civility was once only used by the upper class from their former homes in Europe. The public wanted to execute a level of sophistication to copy the ways of royalty. Though many of these practices were different from what there is today, the middle and lower class had no sense of these ways. But in the 21st century Americans have accustomed themselves to present a state of incivility. According to Merriam-Webster incivility is defined as “a rude or impolite attitude or behavior: lack of civility.” Incivility can be seen in many different ways in this society, resulting in informality. Incivility is a problem caused by the influences around us,

High-context culture and its customs may be hardly to understand for an individual representing low-context culture (Japan versus America). Then, the context of a message or non-verbal gesture became unable to read which resultswhich results in impolite behavior, misunderstanding, insulting or even basing on stereotypes. Conclusion As a result of this paper, politeness can be understandunderstood in terms of both linguistic side and the ways of behaving. It is a really complex structurecomplex structure which can be investigated in terms of many aspects such as nationality, gender, culture.

The subculture of southern violence theory is just one of many cultural transmissions theories discussed in Miller’s text. Cultural transmission theories determine that the values, beliefs, and norms of subcultures (deviant or no) contrast with the dominant culture. Therefore, it is possible for a subculture to justify criminal behavior as normal or necessary when it comes to one’s reputation and self-defense. Because the southern region of the United States is known to have high crime rates than other regions of the United States and as a whole, the subculture of violence theory was hypothesized by Wolfgang and Ferracuti during the late 1960s. Other researchers: Ball-Rokeach, 1973; Erlanger, 1974; and Hartnagel, 1980 theorized what factors may be the cause of the high crime rates in the southern region as well. This discussion will explore the implications of whether or not their findings adequately support the existence of the subculture of southern violence theory.

In the backcountry, fighting served as a way to preserve one’s honor and demonstrate one’s freedom and equality. Close, personal community relations were prevalent in southern culture, where spoken words were emphasized and relied upon. In a society where word of mouth’s heavily valued, it’s logical to assume that any verbal attack on one’s reputation would be taken very seriously by the victim. In fact, in the backcountry, an apology was mandated if anyone makes an affront to another’s reputation. If the offender failed to apologize, a fight was warranted. Failing to fight would cause the victim of the offensive remarks to lose honor and prestige in the eyes of the public. When men fought to preserve their precious honor, they concurrently

Identify the forms of pragmatic politeness and impoliteness used by one of the speakers, De Falco