Life generally would not be enjoyable if human beings were to live in disrespectable and socially unacceptable manner. It is always important that people in the society should interact well and demonstrate certain degree of respect, care and consideration with relevant amounts of etiquette. This makes manners a fundamental aspect of human life both collectively as a society and individually as a person. Good mannerism enables one to live a good life, one that conforms to the acceptable standards of the society. However, lack of good mannerism can result to adverse effects in an individual. The lack of good manners in the society generally is a reflection of a situation that is found in the environments one is brought up in. Indeed, living without manners can ruin one’s life and destroy life that would otherwise been successful and good.
Everybody is born a very innocent little baby. However, as we all grow up, different people assume different characters and traits depending on a number of factors. Such factors may include the environment one is brought up in, socio-cultural as well as economic background, political factors and other relevant aspects of the society. These factors are sometimes, in fact many a times, very fundamental in influencing the kind of life one lives, whether to have good or bad mannerism (Lickona). In other words, there are numerous factors that lead to lack of manners in an individual. There is no specific group of people that can be said to lack manners more than another although children and young people are generally perceived to be the groups that lack manners in most cases (Lickona). There could be some truth, but this cannot really be termed as an obvious case. The major cause of lack of manners in young people or children is basically poor upbringing or peer pressure.
Naturally, the relationship between people and others is highly affected by the lack of manners (Lickona). Every