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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:26 pm
Manners.
You know what I suddenly feel like doing from now on? I feel like bowing and curtsying to people. It's like how the Japanese bow to each other and English ladies curtsy to others as a form of greeting and acknowledging their presence. It's polite and, I don't know, enchanting? And I find it sweet and ladylike to curtsy.
However, I do find bowing and curtsying a tad degrading. Because doing so, you're showing respect. And most of the time, it's upon those who are older than you, of a higher rank than you. From the books I read, all maids and servants do the actions. Ladies do too. Only it's towards the elderly of a rank and to gentlemen they've been introduced to. It hardly shows the equality everyone wants among mankind.
Thus, the conflict within my mind.

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