Public manner

                                                                         2005/09/18

          Nowadays People tend to ignore Public manner. For example, many people easily drop rubbish (bottle, can, cigarette, gum, etc) on the road from their car windows.  And many parents don’t care when their children bother other people by doing mischief in public spaces, restaurants, busses, trains, or airplanes. However, nowadays people do not discipline their children. The War, Japanese compulsory education policy has been changed from feudalistic to democratic by GHQ. After that, many people have misunderstood the meaning liberalism and self-indulgence. Freedom does not equal to self-indulgence. People live in a society, therefore we need order. Our freedom has gotten restricted by law or public manner. These methods are needed for people to be able to comfortably live in a better society.

          We need to wear clothes in our civilization. The clothes are protectors that have protected our bodies from many kind of attacks (severe atmosphere, insects, injuries, disease, etc).  However, we sometimes feel restricted in certain type of clothes. I believe we need Public manner like we need clothes even though we may feel restricted. The public manner and courtesy protect ourselves from uncomfortable situations. We try to keep public manner because we live in a contemporary civilization.