Social Phenomena of Eating - Essay Example

            When I leave for school in the morning, I notice couples holding hands or hugging and the close proximity they maintain is probably indicative of intimacy. I come across other people walking close but not too close and listening to the formal language they use and their formal dressing code makes me think they are colleagues or business associates.             While driving, it is intriguing how all vehicles stop when the traffic lights show green demonstrating conformity to the formal rules of behavior.

It is interesting to notice how my colleagues and I greet lecturers prefixing greetings with titles such as Professor, Doctor, and Mister or Miss whereas our greetings to each other are not prefixed with such. This denotes intergenerational differences as well as differences in social status. Over meals, I notice that people use cutlery and do not talk much while eating in order to conform to table manners.