Why should we have table manners?

We live in a day when western society seems to think that all social "niceties" are irrelevant and means conforming to "privileged" people's preferences. That thinking is far from the truth and will sink us further into dehumanizing the positive qualities of what makes us humans. read more

Good manners show respect for others. There are cultural differences of course but there is a broad agreement across the world. I have my English friends who use a knife and fork one way, Americans who cut their food and use their fork another, and Africans and Arabs who use their fingers. read more

Manners have developed over tens of thousands of years as a key element of human society, and they might even have helped the species survive. Early humans lived in groups in order to hunt, share food and keep one another warm. read more