# Comportment Literacy **Domain:** American Literacy / Embodied Conduct **System:** [[wiki/American Ethos|American Ethos]] ## Definition Comportment Literacy is fluency in bearing, manners, voice, attention, timing, conversation, protocol, and repair. It treats etiquette as a learnable interface through which regard becomes culturally legible. The purpose is democratic confidence rather than class imitation. A person who can read the room can spend less energy on uncertainty and more on the work and people within it. ## Place in the American System Comportment Literacy is developed from [[american/American Ethos - Comportment Literacy|American Ethos - Comportment Literacy]] 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 Comportment|American Comportment]] · [[wiki/Presence and Bearing|Presence and Bearing]] · [[wiki/American Protocol|American Protocol]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Ethos - Comportment Literacy|American Ethos - Comportment Literacy]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].