DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have a disagreement about when a person should be allowed to get up from the table. We have an 8- month-old son whom we both want to grow up to have good manners.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the cultural differences between American and European dining customs that often lead to misunderstandings.

In America, it is proper to keep the unused hand in one’s lap; in Europe, it is rested on the table. In neither part of the world is it polite to characterize others’ manners as rude.

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