🐰英語de異文化理解🐰 アメリカ🗽編【NOVA入間校】

Hello everyone🤍🤍
NOVA入間校です🌻👒

7月ということで、本格的に暑くなってまいりましたね🌞🍉
皆様も水分補給をこまめに取り、熱中症に気を付けてお過ごしください🍹🐬

今回は日本歴9年のアメリカ人講師Brittanyが、日本で暮らしていて気が付いた
「日本とアメリカのある文化の違い」についてご紹介してくれます✨✨

一体どんな違いについてお話ししてくれるのでしょうか❔👀

Greetings, this is Brittany, from Missouri, U.S.A. I’ve been teaching here at NOVA for almost 9 years now. Over the many years I’ve lived in Japan, I’ve noticed some interesting differences between America and Japan.

One of my favorite things to tell students about was my first experience at a Japanese supermarket. I have a sweet tooth and love to snack. When someone likes to eat very sweet things, we call that having a ‘sweet tooth’. Because of my sweet tooth, I bought many snacks at the supermarket my first time there.

When I got home, I opened a box of cookies to discover that each cookie was wrapped individually. I had to open each cookie I wanted to eat and it made SO much trash. I thought to myself, ‘Why are Japanese people so wasteful?’ It wasn’t until later that I learned about the ‘sharing’ culture of Japan, and that many people buy snacks to share with friends, family, or coworkers. The individual wrapping keeps people from touching food that others may eat. In America, we also share snacks, but we don’t care so much about the touching risk. We like the convenience of being able to eat our snacks easily. But maybe this is why some Americans eat too much? I think when I see all the cookies open together I can’t stop eating them, they look so delicious!

いかがでしたでしょうか❔💚💚

確かに外国よりも、お菓子のシェアの文化、食品を清潔に保つ意識は日本のほうが強いイメージありますよね🤔💭

また、個包装だとゴミが増えてしまうという実態は、私自身今まであまり考えたことがなかったので面白い視点だと思いました💡✨

NOVAでは全員がネイティブ講師なので、こういった文化や意識の違いについて
日本にいながら留学しているかのように沢山触れることができます❕❕🎵

皆様も、この機会にNOVAで一緒に英会話を始めませんか❔