이번 토론주제는 different attitudes toward behavior/activities입니다. 다음의 내용은 미국인인 Scott의 경험을 보여주고 있습니다. 아래 글을 읽고 이러한 태도에서의 차이를 고려해 보고 끝부분의 질문에 대하여 어떻게 답할 수 있을지 의견을 제시해 보세요.
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A student from Thailand who lives on my floor asked me to play tennis with him after we had discovered that we were both tennis-players. He even offered to pay for the court rental the first time. The first time we played, I beat him fairly badly. Over the course of the next ten days, I asked him to play three more times, feeling that I owed it to him. Each time he agreed and we set up a time for later that day, or the next. However, at each scheduled time, he was nowhere to be found.
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(Scott W., U.S., with a Thai friend)
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Outright winning, even in a game, makes a person lose face, and many people in South-East Asia (and also in Japan and to a lesser extent in China) will be reluctant to submit to such a humiliation a second time (in Japan, a supplier may play bad golf on purpose to make his customer feel good).
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For the same face-saving reasons, it is difficult for a person from Thailand to turn down an invitation: that makes the invitor lose face. In Thailand, it is more polite, less face-threatening to accept an invitation and not show up rather than to turn it down; exactly the opposite is true, of course, in the U.S. and Europe.
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How would you play a game of tennis with a Japanese or Thai partner when it appears that you are clearly the better player?
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How can you invite a friend for dinner in Japan or Thailand and be reasonably sure that your friend is really accepting your invitation and will show up, rather than saying ‘yes’ just to be polite?
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첫댓글 I think you forgot to notify which study group is going to use this topic.