Get them to like you...
They've know introduced the word decorum to emphasize a person's tone and appearance when they argue. Decorum is used as a word to put someone in a category as if they are doing something to fit in society's doings. Along with what the Latin's defintion of decorum "fit or suitable", in my opinion I would also say a decorum is a stereotype on certain actions. What makes me say that is because in chapter 5 page 48 it states "whenever I spot a do-rag on someone over 40 I see they're dressed like a teenager". Something that stuck out to me was on page 48 when they made reference to Kenneth Burke. He stated "you persuade a man only insofar as you can talk to his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea identifying your ways with his". That's important to me because I feel like the way to successfully persuade someone is to be able to talk in the way he/she talks and have a connection with their words as you persuade them. They mention Eminem having the greatest decorum scene because the whole scene was based upon a decorum. There's a black man and there's a white man, the crowd would expect him to look like Carry Grant however that would make him indecorous. However he's dressed in a skull cap and jeans a couple sizes too big. Eminem and his opponent were dressed alike and people were kind of shocked. What I learned the most from this chapter is that decorum is all about perspective and opinion.