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Thursday, 8 March 2012

“MANNERS Y URBANIDAD"


El concepto de “urbanidad” está muy relacionado con la expresión de la cortesía, el comedimiento, el modo, de ahí su derivación de “buenos modales”. Resulta, por tanto, una actitud, una  “manner” reguladora del trato social.
  Sin embargo, la verdadera urbanidad, concepto inicialmente ligado a la “urbs”, a la ciudad como espacio y tejido de relaciones y hoy extendido a todo ámbito geográfico -viajemos al latín para recordar la “urbs” y el “rus” (campo), de donde “e-rudito” (el que no es rústico)- no tiene nada que ver con la afectación o la hipocresía, máscaras seductoras de la verdadera urbanidad, ni tampoco con lo que consideramos como  “buena educación”, en el sentido de “buena instrucción” y, a la vez, de “buenos modales”.
   Cervantes, en el “Quijote” nos ilustra sobre la afectación: Llaneza, muchacho, no te encumbres, que toda afectación es mala. San Francisco de Sales, que fue obispo de Ginebra, afirmaba que la urbanidad debe parecerse al agua, pues la mejor es la más clara, la más simple, la que no tiene sabor alguno.
   La urbanidad no consiste, por tanto, en una forma exterior de comportamiento o de actitud, un mero “modo” o “manera”, sino en la expresión de unas cualidades internas más sólidas y esenciales: la honestidad, la sinceridad, el sentimiento y el deber, en suma el bien. La verdadera urbanidad supone la formalización de una bondad y de un sentimiento de justicia y libertad.
Fernando Abascal

BREVEDAD Y CORTESÍA

La brevedad es una forma de cortesía.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Here are some quotations on manners and politeness collected by class 1E.


''Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.''
                                                                                    Amy Vanderbilt


" The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly."
                                       Kahil Gibran


"Etiquette is the fine tunning of education."
                                                                                                 Nadine Daher


"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
                        Katharine Fullerton Gerould


"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
                                                                         Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Clothes and manners do not make the man, but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
                                                                                         Arthur Ashe

"Manners are stronger than laws."
                                                                                   Thomas Carlyle

"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
                                                                                   Benjamin Disraeli
                                                                   
                                                                                                                                  
" Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."
                                                                                   Elsie De Wolfe

"There is not a man of common sense who would not choose to be agreeable in company, and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are."
                              The Town and Country Magazine. vol.11, 1779


" A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."
                                                            Mignon McLaughlin


"Manners are a sensitive awarness of the feelings of others. If you have that awarness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
                                  Emily Post


" A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudness; bad manners; lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot..."
                            Robert A. Heinlein


"Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners."
                                                                    Lord Chesterfield


"Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit."
                                                                 William Cowper
      
                

Thursday, 16 February 2012

BUSINESS MANNERS
Kesta Allen



Without good business manners you will not succeed


You may have the business qualifications. You have an excellent record of good education and work experience. However, without good business manners you will not succeed. Treating people with respect should be second nature to you. It helps to get on well with the people you work with and with your superiors. It always pays to be polite. Here are some tips to help your business manners.

1. If you are behind schedule...


Remember to take the time to contact your next appointment so that the person you are due to meet is aware of the delay. If necessary, you can rearrange the meeting for a more convenient time.

2. Return phone calls.


Try not to leave any caller on hold for too long. It is better to tell someone you will call back when you are free. Be sure to return calls as soon as you can. If you cannot return the call immediately, apologizes to the caller for the delay.

3. Keep paperwork under control.


Try to respond to letters within a set time. Keep a record of requests for reply within a certain time. Make a note in your diary of other deadlines for your work. If you are unable to respond quickly, write a short letter to the other person explaining the delay and tell them when you will reply.

4. Lunch appointments.


If you want to take a client or customer out for lunch, a good rule of thumb is for you to choose the restaurant and for the client or customer to choose the time.

5. Avoid too much chat.


Although it is good to be friendly, do not spend too much time chatting to colleagues. You have work to do. If a colleague is distracting you, be polite and say you have some work to do. Ask if you can carry on the conversation after office hours.

6. Salary.


You may think that you are not being paid as much as you should be. Do not discuss your suspicions with your colleagues. A good way of finding out is to contact an employment agency to find out the 'going rate'. Armed with this objective information, you can discuss your salary with your boss.

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Guerras Cántabrias - fiesta de interés nacional

Trabajo de Ética.Marta González Errea 4ºB

La Vijanera

La Vijanera Elena Errea 4b