{"id":152711,"date":"2025-10-25T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152711"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:37:45","slug":"a-note-to-dp-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/10\/25\/a-note-to-dp-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note to DP Education!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations to Dhammika Perera for Magnanimous&nbsp; Generosity to Sri Lanka!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DP Education &#8211; Languages &#8211; IELTS &#8211; Japanese &#8211; Italian &#8211; Korean &#8211; Chinese<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General inquiries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>076 133 3666&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@dpedu.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@dpedu.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DP has offered a great service to the Development of Sri Lankan youth!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as a Sri Lankan abroad for many decades, I have noticed even the Parliamentarians of Sri Lanka, lack the <strong>General Etiquette &amp; Good Manners <\/strong>when visiting overseas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I met the <strong>Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka,<\/strong> waiting for transport, outside the <strong>Kensington Hilton London<\/strong> with a plastic back bin bag next to his tattered brief-case!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to advise otherwise, a <strong>Director of Bank of Ceylon<\/strong>, who was dressed in a short sleeved Batik shirt, just about to attend a formal diner held at an official venue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local Etiquette, subtle points, which&nbsp; matters &amp; differs from country-to-country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Art of Bowing in Japan, to visiting a home in Germany, to&nbsp; attending a meeting at Embassy of Iran with Iranian Ambassador and his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important features when in foreign countries, are the <strong>Knowledge of the Local Etiquette,&nbsp; Cross-Cultoral Differences&nbsp; and Manners!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include the <strong>Language,&nbsp; the Dress, Table Manners &amp; Overall Behaviour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hope DP Education includes these important facts to those who intend to travel abroad!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<br>The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<br><br>Please visit -: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Congratulations to Dhammika Perera for Magnanimous&nbsp; Generosity to Sri Lanka! DP Education &#8211; Languages &#8211; IELTS &#8211; Japanese &#8211; Italian &#8211; Korean &#8211; Chinese General inquiries 076 133 3666&nbsp;|&nbsp;info@dpedu.org DP has offered a great service to the Development of Sri Lankan youth! However, as a Sri Lankan abroad for many decades, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152712,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152711\/revisions\/152712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}