Japan's Cultural Code Wordsの「物の道理」(Something New in Japan)からの抜粋です。
On an individual basis, most Japanese think logically and atempt to conduct themselves according to a precise set of principles, although the latter are not always the same principles that exist in the West. But when the Japanese act as members of groups, regardless of the size or nature of the group, they are forced by tradition to Westerners dealing with their groups, no end of problems.
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By the 1980s the overwhelming majority or the Japanese had subscribed to the new and still revolutionary concept that they and the country had to begin acting on universal principles in order to put themselves in harmony with the rest of the world.
subscribe: は以前取り上げました。 おさらいです。
・Vocabulary: adopt as a belief: “I subscribe to your view on abortion”
When you subscribe to a belief, you adopt it as your own. You might subscribe to the notion that children should be seen and not heard, or you might wholeheartedly subscribe to your town's proposal to save the wetlands. A less common use of subscribe is to sign your name on something, reflecting the origin of the word, which comes from the Latin subscribere, "to write below," that is, to sign at the bottom of a document.
On an individual basis, most Japanese think logically and atempt to conduct themselves according to a precise set of principles, although the latter are not always the same principles that exist in the West. But when the Japanese act as members of groups, regardless of the size or nature of the group, they are forced by tradition to Westerners dealing with their groups, no end of problems.
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By the 1980s the overwhelming majority or the Japanese had subscribed to the new and still revolutionary concept that they and the country had to begin acting on universal principles in order to put themselves in harmony with the rest of the world.
subscribe: は以前取り上げました。 おさらいです。
・Vocabulary: adopt as a belief: “I subscribe to your view on abortion”
When you subscribe to a belief, you adopt it as your own. You might subscribe to the notion that children should be seen and not heard, or you might wholeheartedly subscribe to your town's proposal to save the wetlands. A less common use of subscribe is to sign your name on something, reflecting the origin of the word, which comes from the Latin subscribere, "to write below," that is, to sign at the bottom of a document.
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