When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the way S1()they occupied the space around them -- for example, when such a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2()others. Such people never bump into other people.
However, a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other S3()person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, about an S4()American who had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the S5()countries of the Middle East. The American hasn’t been told very S6()much about the kind, of food he might expect. If he had known about American food, he might have behaved better. S7()
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin ( ). Picking it up, he S8()put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, S9()who had been watching, said%f nothing, but immediately copied S10()the action of his guest.
And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.