Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Is This Normal or Nuts?' からの引用です。
I have this compulsion to say hello to everyone I pass in the office or on the street.
This strikes me (and everyone else) as a little much, but I can't seem to stop. How weird is this?
"Are you from the South?" asks psychologist Ruan. She lived for a while in Atlanta, where people were very friendly and chatty, even from the next stall in the restroom. "One woman started talking to me," says Ruan,...
日本人はこういう人は余りいませんね。何十年も前になりますが、出張で米国アーカンソー州のリトルロックを訪ねた時に町を散歩していたら、通りすがりの中学生位の黒人少年にハローと挨拶されたのが印象的で今でも憶えています。米国でも南部の人の方が人懐こい気がします。
I have this compulsion to say hello to everyone I pass in the office or on the street.
This strikes me (and everyone else) as a little much, but I can't seem to stop. How weird is this?
"Are you from the South?" asks psychologist Ruan. She lived for a while in Atlanta, where people were very friendly and chatty, even from the next stall in the restroom. "One woman started talking to me," says Ruan,...
日本人はこういう人は余りいませんね。何十年も前になりますが、出張で米国アーカンソー州のリトルロックを訪ねた時に町を散歩していたら、通りすがりの中学生位の黒人少年にハローと挨拶されたのが印象的で今でも憶えています。米国でも南部の人の方が人懐こい気がします。
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