Personal Changes Resulting from Living Overseas [English/game]
I quote from textbook and therefore I don't know the source.
It is from 英検２級長文読解問題１５０ page 30.
There is a proverb in English that says, "Travel is broadin" meaning that diverse experiences contribute to the growth of an individual. This is true even of a short guided tour to a foreign country but much more so when living and working in a different culuture.
On a guided tour, the traveler is usually surrounded by people from the same country, speaking the same language. This is like carrying one's own culuture along to a foreign country. It restricts the experience of observing the country from otherside. Even so, the unfamiliar sights, sounds, smells and tastes enrich the traveler's experience and are, in a limited sense, broadening.
But a person who lives and works in a different society and culture is exposed daily to the attitudes and ways of thinking of that country's residents, as well as the different costumes and unfamiliar foods. There are all filtered througf the cultural attitudes that the traveler carries within.
This is confusing at first until one realizes that many more things are culturally determined than one imagines. "Right" and "Wrong" begin to lose their absolute meanings and change to "suitable" or "unsuitable".
People living in the same society need, to some extent, to share same values otherwise moral anarchy results and people's behavior deteriorates until it threatens the society as a whole.
Having one's ideas or basic values challenged is disturbing. But for the traveler who is able to survive in an alien environment, it leads to a careful examination of one's own social values and the social values one is exposed ro. WHat often results is a more throughtful framework of personal values, and this is, indeed, broadening.
It is from 英検２級長文読解問題１５０ page 30.
There is a proverb in English that says, "Travel is broadin" meaning that diverse experiences contribute to the growth of an individual. This is true even of a short guided tour to a foreign country but much more so when living and working in a different culuture.
On a guided tour, the traveler is usually surrounded by people from the same country, speaking the same language. This is like carrying one's own culuture along to a foreign country. It restricts the experience of observing the country from otherside. Even so, the unfamiliar sights, sounds, smells and tastes enrich the traveler's experience and are, in a limited sense, broadening.
But a person who lives and works in a different society and culture is exposed daily to the attitudes and ways of thinking of that country's residents, as well as the different costumes and unfamiliar foods. There are all filtered througf the cultural attitudes that the traveler carries within.
This is confusing at first until one realizes that many more things are culturally determined than one imagines. "Right" and "Wrong" begin to lose their absolute meanings and change to "suitable" or "unsuitable".
People living in the same society need, to some extent, to share same values otherwise moral anarchy results and people's behavior deteriorates until it threatens the society as a whole.
Having one's ideas or basic values challenged is disturbing. But for the traveler who is able to survive in an alien environment, it leads to a careful examination of one's own social values and the social values one is exposed ro. WHat often results is a more throughtful framework of personal values, and this is, indeed, broadening.
2019-08-21 21:37
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