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Judith Martin

columnist known as "Miss Manners"

"Having been brought up on the parental advice of 'just be yourself' is pretty useless because, if you wanted to be someone else, how would you go about it? The whole point is that this notion of an etiquette-free society had been taught to a generation, and they were not happy. Not only were they not getting what they wanted, they were outraged at the way other people were treating them."