Author: Web Curator
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7 Modern Etiquette Updates
- Shaking (or not shaking) hands
- People do shake hands, but it’s OK if you don’t want to.
- Modern etiquette would be saying something like:
- “I don’t shake hands, but I am so pleased to see you.”
- This communicates clearly and politely your boundary (touching hands), but then it also communicates that which is implicitly said by the gesture of the handshake: “I am pleased to see you.”
- Holding the door
- Can be awkward, self explanatory
- Offering seat to lady rather than elderly
- Modern take is offering it to a person nearby you who needs it more than you.
- Removing shoes
- A lot of people want you to remove shoes in the house in modern America, but traditionally Americans wore shoes inside all parts of an American home, whether at their own homes or the homes of others.
- Clinking Glasses with EVERYONE is Optional
- When people are too far away to reach comfortably, simply look them in the eyes and raise your glass to them.
- In Germany, clinking glasses is expected with EVERYONE.
- It is considered rude to not do this, and some people are superstitious about it.
- One must also look each person in the eyes while the clinking glasses. One must not look at the glass while the clink is happening.
- This is intentional as the original purpose was to mix the drinks, suggesting that neither could be poison if the other was willing to mix your drink with his.
- Knife and fork vs hands
- Some food eaten in modern settings is intended to be eaten by hand. In these cases it is appropriate to do so.
- Editor’s note:
- This was not in the video, but I would add that to keep the spirit of the intention behind using a fork and knife, the new etiquette should be to eat slowly and in small bites when eating by hand.
- That is because the intention of the fork and knife at a table setting is to slow the eating.
- It only became a popular way to eat after some Italian elites in the 1400s invented it as a way to demonstrate how refined they are.
- Same with stemware, which emerged at the same time and for the same reason.
- Refusing the last bite
- Traditional etiquette: Always refuse the last bite.
- PRO: It tells the hosts, “You gave more than enough food.”
- CON: It definitionally creates waste because some portion of each course of the meal is going to be thrown away.
- CON: If the food isn’t thrown away, it means the hosts have to break out their tupperware and put away one small portion of each course of their dinner, and then they have to wash all that tupperware again.
- Modern etiquette: Sometimes take the last bite.
- Food is meant to be eaten.
- The hosts want to satisfy their guests.
- If the hosts asks, “Would anybody like the last bite of ______?”
- Wait a pause to allow anyone else to claim it.
- Say, “I would like it, thank you.”
- If someone answers at the same time as you:
- Say, “It’s all yours.”
- If they insist, then say, “Thank you,” and take it.
- DO NOT have an insisting match. Nobody at the table wants to hear that.
- Traditional etiquette: Always refuse the last bite.
- Shaking (or not shaking) hands
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The Corporate Media Disinformation Campaign Around the Maryland Man Who Was Deported to El Salvador
Turns out the guy was illegally in the US, was trafficking other illegals across the country for pay, was a member of the El Salvador gang MS-13, and had two restraining orders against him for beating his wife.
The corporate media wanted you upset that this guy was deported. They called him a “Maryland father” and talked as if any person in America could be mistakenly rounded up and sent to an El Salvador prison.
Americans voted to deport illegal immigrants. Somewhere between 15 million and 30 million people are in the US illegally. That is 10-20% of the population of the country.
The Trump administration has made clear that their first priority is to deport anyone in the country illegally who ALSO has committed a crime (other than evading the legal process for entering the country).
How much have you heard in the corporate media by way of correction for their false reporting? If the answer is none, why might that be?
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Wes Anderson on His Movies
At 24:45, Wes Anderson correctly pronounces the word “processes.”