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Etiquettes are an essential ingredient of dayto-day interactions among people.Moreover, etiquettes are region-specific, and etiquettes in one region might contradict those in other regions.In this paper, we propose EtiCor, an Etiquettes Corpus, having texts about social norms from five different regions across the globe.The corpus provides a test bed for evaluating LLMs for knowledge and understanding of region-specific etiquettes.Additionally, we propose the task of Etiquette Sensitivity.We experiment with state-of-the-art LLMs (Delphi, Falcon40B, and GPT-3.5).Initial results indicate that LLMs, mostly fail to understand etiquettes from regions from non-Western world. * Equal Contributions 1In this paper, we use the term etiquette and social norm inter-changeably Wikipedia DataPercentage