# American Table **Domain:** American Comportment Domain **System:** [[wiki/American Comportment|American Comportment]] ## Definition The American Table is the civic and social room in which appetite, hospitality, hierarchy, attention, and treatment of workers become visible at once. Its standard concerns orientation, inclusion, pacing, moderation, and the dignity of the least powerful guest more than mastery of decorative rules. A meal can build trust because it reveals character under ordinary pleasure. Good hosting makes the table easier to enter and the conversation larger than the host. ## Place in the American System American Table is developed from [[american/American Comportment - 03 - The Table|American Comportment - 03 - The Table]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/American Refinement|American Refinement]] · [[wiki/Respect|Respect]] · [[wiki/Everyday Civic Courtesy|Everyday Civic Courtesy]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Comportment - 03 - The Table|American Comportment - 03 - The Table]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].