New handbook lists ways in which Chinese can avoid offending locals when traveling overseas
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Are Americans Over Being Polite?
Are Americans becoming more rude, abandoning traditional polite phrases, or are the words we use now just updated versions of the same sentiment? This debate is the subject of an NPR piece that investigates camps from both …
Mother-In-Law’s E-mail Rant to ‘Bad Mannered’ Bride Goes Viral
With her scathing e-mail on etiquette now circling the globe, stepmother Carolyn Bourne may soon be the world’s most famous monster-in-law.
Don’t Text and Watch: Texas Theater Broadcasts Movie Texter’s Angry Voicemail
Don’t text during a movie, at least in this Texas movie theater. They will kick you out and make your angry voicemail into a PSA for everyone else.
Sorry, Social Media Addicts: Tweeting Ban In Effect For The Royal Wedding
Westminster Abbey has been declared a Tweet-free zone.
Princesses-in-Training: Boot Camp Gives Little Girls The Kate Middleton Treatment
Every little girl dreams of being a princess: the crown, the prince, the manners.
Sick of Surly Airline Staff? Delta Sends 11,000 Employees to Charm School
The Atlanta-based airline hopes customer-service classes will help its staff lose the ‘tude, and bring back service with a smile. (via Wall Street Journal)
Pirates 4 Script Lost in London — But Returned
Joining the ranks of the Confederate battle plans for Antietam, the original recordings of The Clash’s London Calling and other famous left-behind items, the script for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film was accidentally …