Of all those behaviours that are encompassed as 'Soft Skills', social etiquette is most important because it is an unspoken communication giving away what a person is without need for opening his mouth. It makes a strong impression.
The way houses are built today. there is little privacy nay little protection from visual assaults from others. Same case with work places.
People may safely skirt the issue saying that social etiquette, table manners etc are for the elite and snobs. I beg to differ. I notice our rural folk have better habits and manners than the urbanites.
Picking nose, biting nails, cleaning eyes with bare hands, not washing hands with soap after using wash rooms are some of the obnoxious habits which do not need a finishing school to rectify. It should be inculcated by parents from childhood. It could be quite appalling for a person sensitve.
Another thing that makes me shudder is the tendency to borrow things. Cell phones, vehicles, shaving kits, hand kerchiefs, clothes to mixies, systems, and there is no end to the list. Hostel bullys do this with impunity and carry it further throughout their life.
Unless a person is brutally candid, it is very difficult to escape this assault.
Parents should be careful. Grooming should take place at home. If not, it is taught brutally outside.
Standding in a queue for one's turn, offering help to the needy, not embarassing others in any manner, not seeking to use others' things should come naturally.
My repeated abnoxious habits will turn a saint into devil and I will lose a friend.
...ponder
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