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Chrisが日本に来てから衝撃を受けたことを話してくれました😄
首都圏でも田舎でも子供たちが子供たちだけで通学している姿を日本ではよく見かけますよね。
でも、海外から来た講師達には不思議な光景なんだそうです。
6歳くらいの子が一人で電車に乗って通学してるのを見て、あまりにビックリして周りを見渡して親御様の姿を探した!そうです😆
Chrisの話を読んでいきましょう。
One of the things that really surprised me when I moved to Japan was how often I see unsupervised children. I moved from Los Angeles to Osaka in 2017. Both are large cities with millions of people but the way that children traverse these two cities couldn’t be any more different.
(子供たちが一人で行動してるのを見て驚いたみたいです。L.A.と大阪では子供たちの通学が全然違うようですね。)
I was so shocked to see school children, who appeared to be 6 or 7 years old, quite confidently maneuver their way through Osaka Station, tap their ICOCA cards and board trains, all without any adult supervision. Just out there commuting to and from school like salarymen going to work. The first few times I witnessed this I wondered to myself where their parents were and why could they possibly be out in the world by themselves like this.
(大人が通勤するように通学する6歳か7歳の子を初めて目にしたんでしょうね。親御様がどこにいるのか周りを探したみたいです。日本では、目にする光景ですよね。)
In Los Angeles, if I saw a 13 or 14 year old kid by themselves I would wonder where their parents were. If I saw a 6 year old by themselves, I might look around for a police officer and ask them to help the kid find his or her way. I have two nieces that are 11 and 14 years old and my brother or my sister-in-law still pick them up from school everyday. When I was young, I lived in the countryside, far away from the big city, but still, I took the school bus to and from school everyday. It picked me up directly in front of my house and dropped me off at the school.
(L.A.では、13歳や14歳の子が一人でいると親御様を探すんですね。州によっては、一人で留守番できる年齢が法律で決まっているようです。外出も州によって法律があるみたいです。16歳や17歳でも大人の監視なしで、場合によって最大2日までだそうです。Chrisの姪っ子や甥っ子は、親御様が学校に迎えに行っているみたいですね。共働きの家庭は大変ですね。バスが家の前まで来てくれるはいいですね。)
I think the difference between the two situations, Japan and the US, comes down to the safety of the countries. As I’ve come to learn, Japan is one of the safest nations on the planet, safe enough for small children to travel through the city without fear. Whereas, in the US there is more crime. The possibility of something happening to an unsupervised child in the US is greater than it is in Japan. Having grown up there, I don’t really consider the US to be an inherently dangerous place, but I do consider Japan to be an unusually safe place in comparison with the rest of the world. And this amazing level of safety that I find unusual has led to, what seems to me to be, an unusual level of freedom for the children of Japan.
(Chrisが子供のころアメリカで生活をして治安が悪いと危険を感じたことがないようですが、それ以上に日本は平和な国なんだとこの光景を見て感じたようです。)
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