March 2009 - "Do manners matter?”
Janet Ellis,
former actress turned TV personality, talks about why Britain - a
nation known for being polite - has abandoned courtesy and lost its
manners
Picture the scene: it's the Titanic, but it's 2009, not 1912. As the few lifeboats are launched, no one cries, "Women and children first!" The people queuing to leave the stricken ship are thrust aside by others charging past them from behind. Are the first people on the scene rescuers, donating their own dry clothes to the sodden survivors? No, they're tabloid journalists, eager for a scoop. That's how it would be today, folks - welcome to the Age of the New Rudeness!
While we are all super aware of the need to consider our planet,
helping it to survive in a thousand thoughtful ways each day, we
seem to have lost sight of the need to consider each other too. How
many times have you held a door for someone, only for them to
ignore you as they pass? Or waited patiently while your
conversation is interrupted by a mobile phone call that immediately
takes precedence? Does your waiter smile as he takes your order,
and do you say please and thank you to him? Every day, human
kindness and thoughtfulness is eroded by our fast-paced,
every-man-for-himself society.
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