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Tony CanardYou definitely cannot say "How do you be polite?"You definitely can.
Anonymous How do you stay/be polite and humble to extremely rude obnoxious people?Thanks'Stay', 'be' and 'remain' would all work, but I don't think we would wish to stay/be/remain 'humble' to such people.