Dignity as a shared value --- I like this analysis very much, Desirée, especially as dignity could be considered as a synonym for 'face' and therefore very relevant to this lecture.

I also like Blanca's request for positive examples. I think these are so much the default that we do not really notice them until they are breached, as in these examples.

I like the idea that dignity is not something we own but something we share. Mandela said 'A man who tires to rob me of my dignity will lose'. This sentiment is also found in Pope Francis" 'When I trample on the dignity of another, I trample on my own.'

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu