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Lack Of Common Courtesy In American Society

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Common Courtesy Today amongst people, a lack in common courtesy has evolved. This lack in courtesy not only is a lack of politeness to others, it also deals with one’s lack of respect for themselves and human lives. There are several different types of respect and common courtesy. The way you treat yourself and the way that you treat others. On a normal day, I encounter at least 100 people. These people do not have to be people that I talk to, just merely someone that I look directly into the eye. Of these one hundred individuals, only 20% looked at me and smiled or said hi. This statistic may seem a little peculiar, but, deals with a major problem facing today 's America; common courtesy and respect for others. American society is absent of common courtesy. I will not compare modern society to that of past periods in American history; I am only concerned in this respect to the present. I focus in on American society since I am an American, and my concern at present is with common courtesy in my own surroundings. The first item I would like to address is the idea of common courtesy. Common courtesy today has ceased with many people. There have been many instances and occasions where another person could have extended a simple "hello" or even "thank you" to another person. However, hardly anyone extends these simple gestures to anyone. On rare occasions, you will find a sincere individual who sends out some warm “thanks” or "I 'm sorry". The way in
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