Incivility

Incivility Incivility "Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion, and character." Apparently when President Bush said this in his Inaugural Address last year not too many people were paying attention. In fact, a study conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that 79% of the Americans surveyed consider rudeness and lack of respect to be a serious problem in our nation (Harris 4). (Fig. 1) With very little effort, you can find a plethora of articles describing how the civility and etiquette of this nation has deteriorated to an almost non-existent point. A substantial amount of these articles charge incivility with intensifying a majority of the world’s problems. It is not that civility has up and disappeared people have just replaced it with selfishness and severely enlarged egos directing others to follow suite, consequently initiating the snowball effect within social behavior. The abundance of incivility today has changed the way we function at work, the way we go to school; it has even endangered lives by affecting the way we act in our vehicles. Before getting into the many statistics and quotes about civility you people, way, out, incivility, years, parents, even, been, act, time, students, same, over, driving, civility, work, nation, just, children, because, while, very, think, school, said, last, kids, fig, business, asked, angry, about, today, teaching, teachers