A good man is warm and respectful towards the waiter or people of lower rank. A better man does so even if they are not from his ethnicity. An even better man is both nice to the lower rank and only arrogant with the powerful. The converse (at three levels) is true for the half man.

[REVISED. The point is not to be arrogant, except that the bias is to believe that arrogance towards those is power is arrogance, when in fact it can be a check against their power.]

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