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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m American but my father was from Europe. I was raised to be extremely well behaved. My father was very strict and did not tolerate bad behavior, especially not in public. We were taught to sit still, be quiet, not talk loudly, not play with our hair, or touch our clothes, etc. We were also taught to dress appropriately. And from a young age I was taken to the theater, opera, ballet, museums, church, and on occasion nice restaurants where I not only learned how to be in those environments but also practiced good behavior. [/quote]

"dress appropriately"
Take your moral stupidity and stuff it.[/quote]

Actually I think that appropriate dress matters. A person who is dressed for business operates in a different mode than a person who is dressed for hiking does. A child who is dressed for church behaves differently than a child who is dressed for the playground.

When I was a child we had school clothes, play clothes, and dress clothes. We never wore clothes or dress clothes to school, and we never wore school clothes to play. In my generation and those before mine, these standards applied and it made a difference in terms of demeanor and behavior. We have lost the standards in the United States, and consequently children's ability to differentiate among environments that require different kinds of behavior.

I think that in most of Europe, these dress standards still exist.[/quote]

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