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Good manners bring about social equality
I have to disagree with the idea that manners were brought into society to maintain class differences. On the contrary, while there are some small concessions made in the business world concerning rank (like who walks through a door first), the rules require that everyone treats everyone else with equal civility, regardless of station. It's as much a crime against etiquette to be rude to your waitress as it is for the waitress to be rude to you; it's as bad to be insult someone on the street as it is for you to be mean to insult next door neighbor. Your boss must treat you as well as you're expected to treat him or her.