Thursday, January 19, 2023

Manners Matter

 

                                                  (image: Philnews)

Bisan unhon pagtago motunga gajod an tinood na kolor. There is brouhaha over the scene where the vlogger Alex Gonzaga smeared the face of a waiter with cake icing during her birthday. People found the act as rude even if the culprit claimed that it was just a joke and she knows the waiter.

Inquirer.net reported: Alex Gonzaga on Wednesday night apologized to the waiter who she smeared icing cake on during her birthday celebration in Pasig City on January 16. Gonzaga, on her Instagram Stories, said sorry to the hapless waiter who was identified by her family’s publicist as Allan Crisostomo, saying the incident, which was caught in a now-deleted video and had become viral on social media, had been a lesson in “humility and kindness” for her.

According to Cambridge dictionary manners are ways of behaving toward people, especially ways that are socially correct and show respect.

These are developed inside the house through the nurturing care of the parents and reinforced in the school. Whatever the person has developed, it would often show on the movements, the manner they talk and even the way they dress and present themselves in public.

Incivility is defined as a mild form of deviant behavior that is low intensity, ambiguous as to intent to harm, violates respectful social norms, and does not form a decided pattern of behavior (Emotions, Technology, and Behaviors, 2016),

There is no excuse for rudeness. This might be attributed to bad parenting and skewed value system.

Whether you are friends with someone, it is rude to perform a joke that may harm the feelings and dehumanize the person. That is why “pranks” should be considered properly since the stress it can bring to others might be too much for the intended fun.

Being civil and cultured matter.

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