Manners

Be polite, stay in line, do unto others as you will have them do to you, say please and thank you and excuse me, and most importantly, don't blog in class. Ooops. Guess which of the above I'm disregarding now? That's right, I'm writing this in English class, during a very interesting issues study on the presence or absence of manners in Australian society. And more importantly, who we can blame if our manners are out the window. The Prime Minister blames TV, others blame young people, parents, media, the slow erosion of time, cultural corruption and private schools. Some even blame the internet.
I think this is as good a point as any to say that I have used a program to change the text in the bar up the top of my web browser, so instead of reading "Microsoft Internet Explorer" now reads "this is not the internet-this is my head". Not really relevant, but interesting none the less.

So what do you all think? Has Australia lost her manners? Are we sinking into the steaming pit of vulgarity? Is relating a country in the female form a thing of the past? Is this a polite blog? Share your thoughts.