Hello and welcome to contemplations and today we are going to be talking about 21st century manners in etiquette because it's very important to be nice and polite, you know, especially as a British person, but also I have a non British person here that is

Stelios hello who not only is going to sort of add some more universal

perspective on my very British way of understanding man as an etiquette,

but also philosophising, rounding me. I'm also a noble by birth, but I'm a naturally noble person.

Stelios is just a natural at this, so you know, he's got it all figured out.

He's got all the answers.

So it's worth mentioning that I've covered Manas Neskid before but in the 19th century and I feel like

there's a lot to be learnt from the 19th century that we've actually forgotten but what I'm going to be covering here is just things

that I have seen I've paid attention to over the years this is something that's actually

been quite a focus of mine so I'm surprised it's really taking me this long to discuss this but I think it had slipped by the wayside because it's so

idiosyncratic with my very being as an Englishman to be polite that I didn't think of it but just sort of to give you a

rundown on the kind of things that we discussed in the Victorian stuff you know know, obviously the 19th century had very

formalised rules and manners and etiquette, and this was largely for the middle and upper

classes, and the working classes were kind of expected to figure things out for themselves and obviously a lot of these

rules still apply because human beings haven't really changed that much and so being respectful

to another human being, generally speaking, no amount of cultural shift necessarily changes that.

Certain elements, certainly, but the overall philosophy of putting the needs of others above your own,

that's probably not going to change.

And of course, that's putting others above yourself

as long as it doesn't inconvenience yourself too much because also if you are self sabotaging you're not

being polite to yourself you're still a human being worthy of respect as is

any other and so that is the the overarching philosophy behind

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