Southern Hospitality In America

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Southern hospitality began directly in the south due to social rules by the high class, mainly farm owners. Hospitality and manners are colloquial almost instinctual to southerners. Cultural differences in the United States exist, regionally, state to state, and even city to city. Placing an emphasis on manners, respect, and friendliness has been a way of life, taught to kids who grew up in these southern states. The origins of hospitality began on the farm, “Southern hospitality first existed as a narrowly defined body of social practices among the antebellum planter classes, but it also exists as a discourse, as a meaning-making story continually told and re-told about the south” ( Szczesiul 127). These social practices, were a very narrow

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