5 current behaviors of bad education
Education is a process of socialization of individuals. When a person receives the relevant education, assimilates and learns knowledge that will help him perform in certain situations. However, there are still many practices that keep us away from this concept of good education.
Now, a new guide to good manners developed by Debrett's (Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners, Thomas Dunne Books), collects some of the most common negative social forms and behaviors in the 21st century.
5 behaviors of the rude people of the 21st century
1. Greet with two kisses always. The greeting is the first step that takes place between two people. There are many ways to greet the other, but not all are valid for any circumstance or should be repeated on each occasion.
Obviously, it will not be the same say hello to the boss, which is an authority figure, that your relatives, with whom a bond of trust has been established. In these cases, the normal thing is to shake the boss's hand when you greet him and use the two kisses with your family or friends. However, this guide also points out that the greeting with two kisses should only be made between friends and in the first meeting, referring to the widespread practice of adolescents today to resort to the two kisses constantly and not as a form of initial greeting.
Likewise, kisses thrown into the air, common among children aged two to five, describe them as "rude and impersonal", stressing that their "sound effects" are completely unnecessary.
2. Eating or applying makeup on public transport. It is always necessary to take care of our appearance, however we must be careful with the space we choose for it. Nowadays, it is normal to see accelerated people who, with a very tight schedule, use the metro routes or the bus to put on makeup. However, this practice, as stated in the manual, is completely inadequate: the unhealthiness, the possible spots that we can cause to other passengers and the image we give, should be sufficient reasons to persuade us of this practice.
On the other hand, eat In public transport, most of the time due to lack of time, it is also a bad practice. When someone eats in a public transport, in some way, in addition to flooding an area of common use of smell of food, can cause inconvenience to travelers, who will have to be aware that in the next curve your food does not end up being a stain in his shirt.
3. Occupy reserved seats. The reserved seating areas do not carry recommendation messages but involve a obligation for travelers. It is a warning to leave our seat free when seeing an elderly person, someone with mobility problems or a pregnant woman or with her baby in her arms. However, today we find few people who take it as a rule that must be met: a recent study showed that only 20 percent of London's metro passengers relinquish their seat so that they feel a visibly pregnant woman .
4. Use the mobile phone while we talk face to face. The mobile is a very useful tool that helps us to communicate, however, it should never be replaced by face-to-face communication. Many times we can see that people who are having a conversation with another person face to face, are consulting the mobile at the same time. This habit, in addition to being disrespectful to the other person and an impolite practice, may worsen our personal relationships. Any person, even if he tries, can not put the same intensity and concentration in two things he is doing at the same time, so when we attend a conversation on WhatsApp we are disregarding a face-to-face conversation.
5. Put our comfort first. Normally, when we make a trip by plane, train or bus we look for our maximum comfort. For this, for example, we recline our seat until we can adopt the ideal position.
This guide of good manners reminds us that some practices that we use in search of our happiness are synonymous with bad education. First of all, he points out that recline our seat It is a selfish practice because normally we are going to reduce the space of the person sitting behind. Likewise, it is necessary to remember that it is not right to monopolize the entire armrest, neither to support the feet on the front seat, or to keep the living space occupied by the rest of the passengers.
Patricia Núñez de Arenas
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