Being polite also means talking about polite topics.
Their customs and norm is you should be polite and that means spending more time with a customer".
The criminal autobiography is a perverse genre anywhere, but this is especially true in Japan, where Goto's book appeared with the title "Habakarinagara," a polite phrase that means "with all due respect".
"I think this is one reason he's so halus," Bryant said of the president, using the Indonesian adjective that means "polite, refined, or courteous," referring to qualities some see as distinctively Javanese.
Chivalry these days means polite behaviour usually by men towards women.
Now this doesn't mean be sophisticated and boring, This just means polite.
Being a gentleman doesn't just mean being polite and courteous to women; it means being respectful to other men, to the elderly, and even to children.
These soul killers, having been loosed on the world by all the manufacturers of pink toys and spaghetti-strap toddlerwear, and sometimes by well-meaning, anxious mothers, come after girls before they even start elementary school and turn them into polite (if sometimes mean) little beings.
But I was overruled by my kinder gentler Other Half, who thinks it's not polite to be mean to people one has invited over even if they are attempting to kill us.
