The Importance of Good Manners and Politeness in Today’s World

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Today, I’m going to discuss about the importance of good manners and politeness in today’s world. In my following presentation, I am going to explain the topic in 3 aspects to show that good manners and politeness are important in today’s world. First of all, having a good manners and politeness is important when you are interacting with each other. For example, when you sneeze or cough you should cover your mouth with your hand better yet, with a tissue and say ‘excuse me’ afterwards. You may think that it’s a very minor thing to care about or you even don’t care it, but actually, through these little actions, can reflect that you are respecting yourself and the one who you are talking to. Also, when we are interacting with people, a good first impression is very important that people determine if they would like to be friend with you or not. For example, imagine you’re a sales of a store. When there is a customer walk in your store, if you greet the customer politely with a friendly smile the customer would be willing to stay in your store for a longer time that you would have an opportunity to do your business. But if you are being rude to your customer, I’m pretty sure that he/she would immediately turn around and walk out of your store right that you would lose all the chances of doing business. Secondly, good manners and politeness are important to a society. I believe that a good nation is made up of great citizens, why would I say so? Imagine everyone in the society that is not having a manner to consider about others feeling, for example, people are littering on the street which, of cause, the environment would be ruined, but the main point is that this society would be considered as ‘uncivilized’. Moreover, being polite to people can minimize conflicts between people. For example, you run into a stranger on the street, if you say ‘sorry’ immediately,
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