Man i hate to say it, maybe i am getting a bit older and more jaded then before, but what the heck has happend to things like "thank you" "excuse me" "pardon me", a firm handshake on greeings, looking a person in the face when addressing them, i mean really, I can only speak for us Canadian, but we do have a bit of a stigma attached to us for being "polite" people for the most part, i fear the more people come to stay and live amoungst us from abroad the worse our manners get........