# Everyday Civic Courtesy **Domain:** American Comportment Domain **System:** [[wiki/American Comportment|American Comportment]] ## Definition Everyday Civic Courtesy is the standard practiced in anonymous rooms and toward people who cannot reward the effort. Queues, traffic, noise, shared spaces, workers, neighbors, elders, and strangers reveal whether dignity survives the absence of advantage. Courtesy reduces friction in the common world and preserves another person's room to act. The real standard is what happens when nobody important appears to be watching. ## Place in the American System Everyday Civic Courtesy is developed from [[american/American Comportment - 09 - Everyday Civic Courtesy|American Comportment - 09 - Everyday Civic Courtesy]] 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/Common Standard|Common Standard]] · [[wiki/Respect|Respect]] · [[wiki/American Civic Character|American Civic Character]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Comportment - 09 - Everyday Civic Courtesy|American Comportment - 09 - Everyday Civic Courtesy]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].