While O'Neal's garbled, exaggerated approximations of Asian speech insulted Americans, Asian and otherwise, Yao pleaded ignorance to our standards of civility and decorum.
And when the papers were exceedingly coarse, brash, or harshly militant — that is, when they violated even the counterculture's loose standards of civility and propriety — they gave people good cause to turn their noses at the movement.
The idea that the internet has cheapened debate and lowered standards of civility is commonly advanced, but the tone of debate is often modelled by mainstream media and merely copied by those who comment and post on public platforms.
Cheaper and more readily available alcohol, changing drinking patterns, a steep increase in drinking among young women and a decline in old standards of civility have turned what was once a manageable part of life into a problem that costs society, according to government estimates, $35 billion a year.
Institutions and individuals choosing to maintain their usual standards of civility, despite the loud insistence of mob mentality, are to be commended, not vilified.
Strong words and a strong code of conduct, an antidote perhaps to a world pervaded by its own strong (and expletive!) words and conduct that manifest so often only a forgetfulness of even the most basic standards of civility.
Chávez is fighting for his life, recovering from a difficult cancer operation; in Latin America, as in most of the world, this wholly unnecessary vilification of Chávez by Obama is a breach not only of diplomatic protocol but also of ordinary standards of civility.
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Unions often provide a measure of civility that non-union companies acknowledge when crafting work rules and performance standards for their workers.
