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Manners

Manners: A Comprehensive Exploration This podcast series examines manners as a fundamental system of human social organization—exploring what they are, how they function, and why they"re both essential and impossible to perfect. Through three episodes, the series unpacks the invisible architecture of social behavior, from how people learn and enforce unwritten rules to what happens when different manners systems collide across generations, cultures, and classes. The exploration reveals the paradoxes

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Host Maya Chen examines manners as the fundamental...

Manners ·

2025/10/16

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Manners - The Paradoxes We Live With

Manners ·

2025/10/16

Episode 3: "The Paradoxes We Live With" This episode confronts the irresolvable contradictions built into manners systems. Maya Chen explores tensions between authenticity and artifice, universal principles and cultural specificity, individual freedom and social obligation, equality and hierarchy. The episode presents unsolvable dilemmas where good manners conflict—honesty versus kindness, privacy versus acknowledgment, inclusion versus comfort—and examines how manners get selectively enforced based

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Manners - The Evolution of Expectations

Manners ·

2025/10/16

Episode 2: "When Systems Collide" This episode examines what happens when different manners systems crash into each other in everyday life. Maya Chen explores generational conflicts over phones at dinner and email formality, cultural collisions around eye contact and directness, and class-based tensions over punctuality and thank-you notes. The episode reveals how power dynamics determine whose rules prevail and how people from marginalized groups bear the invisible burden of constant

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Manners - The Rules We Follow Without Knowing Why

Manners ·

2025/10/16

Episode 1: "The Rules We Follow Without Knowing Why" This episode explores the fundamental nature of manners as invisible social technology. Maya Chen examines what manners actually are—rules, rituals, and signals that reduce friction in group living—and distinguishes them from etiquette, morals, and ethics. The episode investigates how manners function universally across all cultures while varying wildly in execution, from eye contact norms to personal space expectations. It traces how people learn

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