We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
What do you think?
2007-01-08 22:27:22 · 6 answers · asked by helehelo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I see what she's going for. We're born as a clean slate of sorts, curious little babies, but have to be acculturated (a better term, I think). Everyone undergoes that process.
But it is odd to hear her use the word civilized. Acculturated is a better term (Miss Manners obviously didn't take intercultural communication courses did she?)
2007-01-09 00:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in my opinion, the easy answer to that's that it can't. i take place to wholeheartedly accept as true with frou frou in this, we are actually not as civilised as we prefer to think of we are... there are little wallet, right here and there, however the collective denial, the collective injustices and inequalities ignored, the collective greed, the collective turning of eyes faraway from some very unpalatable information tell their own tale, that is not an extremely rather tale and we are, each and each people, the writers of this tale. p.s. i've got self assurance my answer is extremely "doom and gloom" yet fairly, in my heart, there's a lot of room for optimism and a sturdy dose of religion in humanity and what we are able to as quickly as we turn our concentration to substantial concerns and stand united, a minimum of bush is now out of the white domicile and the people of the U. S. elected a president together with his easy share of concepts cells, that could be a start up :) now, enable's see how he responds to the inordinate quantities of rigidity he might desire to be feeling the place the israel/palestine subject is worried.
2016-12-15 19:26:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not born charming--never, never--if the human race were--there would not be any need for war or police. We would be the untimate society.
2007-01-08 22:36:48 · answer #3 · answered by masterwitchphd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. (Authors always find the best drugs.)
2007-01-09 00:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by ericscribener 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes social conditioning and social values corrupt us.
2007-01-08 22:31:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
hogwash.
2007-01-08 22:31:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋