IMPORTANCE OF BEING POLITE

Jiya Sharma Class VIII

Politeness plays an important role in getting along with people. We are more polite with some people than we are with others.  According to Stephen and Liberman, there is a connection between social distance and politeness. People are more polite with strangers than they are with people they know. This is because a stranger isn't familiar with your personality. So, if you address a stranger impolitely, you could turn that person away and give them an unfavorable impression. Often a good first impression is the key and itreally does affect how polite people will be to you. By using politeness, the speaker is creating a distance between themselves and the other person. Sharing some information with strangers without disclosing an overwhelming amount of details is considered to be polite. Sociologist George Simmel explains this type of relationship with his theory on distance and the stranger. Simmel says that a stranger is one who is neither too close nor too far, every relationship, even an intimate one, can havea degree of strangeness.