In Alex Jolliet's essay, I find the analysis of the reason behind manners interesting. He basically says that he is always a gentleman, and that the purpose of that is that he generally gets better treatment from other people when he is polite. Although this is no major discovery, I found THIS article on finishing schools in Switzerland, which serve a different purpose: "But today’s students would rather deploy their good manners to land a business contract than an eligible husband, according to the school principal Viviane Néri, immaculate in a skirt suit and Alice band."
There are many benefits from being polite, and there must be an anthropological reason as to why manners emerged in the first place. Did they ensure smooth societal interactions only?
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