Which part of gracious do you not understand?

Source: Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
gra‧cious [grey-shuhs]
– adjective
1. pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
2. characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living; a gracious home.
3. indulgent or beneficent in a pleasantly condescending way, esp. to inferiors.
4. merciful or compassionate: our gracious king.
5. Obsolete. fortunate or happy.
–interjection 6. (used as an exclamation of surprise, relief, dismay, etc.)

In reference to the recent article in today's Straits Times Home section page H4 entitled "Teen Blogger's Elitist Remarks", our aim to be a gracious society probably falls under point 3. above. Where citizens of Singapore should be indulgent or beneficient in a pleasantly condescending way, especially to inferiors. So the moral of the story?
"The next time you step on the downtrodden and push the weak by the wayside and scoff at the poor, remember to say please and thank you and everything's gonna be alright." (sic)