Gentlemanly

I agree with Heather. If I get to a store first, but someone is close behind, I always hold the door open for them. I always do that, but especially for the elderly or those that are handicapped. In this case, it's not so much gender related, but common courtesy.

I need to be a bit more thoughtful about this.

Yes, everyone become aware about how to politely get the door for everyone :-) And don't forget to smile or say thank you when someone does the same for you.

Try NY if you want interesting.

pffft

i wont lie and say i always let people go first, or hold doors open etc.
people around my area are so rude, i hate to say it without sounding rude myself, but in my hometown there are more foreigners than there are white british, and i always find the foreigners to be the worst, not all of them, we have a mixture, asians, few chinese, polish, slovakian, romanian, spanish etc. i find Romanians and Spanish (brings me to another thing, i didnt realise some Spanish people were black..) are the most polite, the asians around here think they own the place, please come here for 2 days and you will see im not being rude myself, they walk in front of you, stop in front of you, dont move when you ask, they spit in front of you, blow smoke in your face (or your 1 year old face!!!) and they never use manners.
the other day i had to stop bcos a woman was in my way, another woman looked right at me and sai 'well come on then you only have little legs' so i told her 'i can only go as fast as the person in front of me, and it seems the woman in front didnt hear me say excuse me 10 times!' yes i did raise my voice mid sentence, she still didnt move though, i ended up walking onto the road (without M)

i was in a que before at a shop, i had a basket with a few items a asian bloke came right in front of me and said 'i only have bread' oh well im sorry, i dont care if you only have bread or if you have 10 loaves of bread, i was first and manners dont cost, i would have let him go if id of seen, but he just barged in, until the lady at the till told him to shift it!!

my OH is quite polite actually, he holds doors, lets people past, says his p's and q's and talks with manner when needed.

I'll go back to what Callie had said about people being rude. And when she mentioned that the Spanish-speaking people were polite, I totally agree! I've worked with people that spoke Spanish and they were so nice. Yesterday, I walked down my street and saw a guy fixing the side-walk, and guessing that he was Latino, I said Hola to him. He gave me a big smile and said Hola!
We can't control the behavior of people, but rather, appreciate the nice ones.

Mana is my favourite band and Alex Gonzalez (the drummer) is the one that I like the most. He was born in Miami, although his parents were from Cuba. Sorry Shell, but I disagree with you on this one. At my former job I was friends with every Latina there! They may have been from different Spanish-speaking countries, but they were always nice to me. They spoke English fluently, but I loved hearing them speak in their native tongue with one another!

"People Are People" by Depeche Mode.  Please listen to the words.