ＮＯＶＡ多治見校コミュのみんなでvoiceroom

1.
I've got a lot of stress these days.
I've always released the stress that I've accumulated from work and by taking English lessons and talking with different people. That's the best way to release the stress for me.

2.
I think so. In a sense everyone could be affected by parents.

3.
Who has inspired me the most is I think my professor of the University.
I studied under him in my University days. He gave us students a lot of opportunities to give a presentation instead of him doing it. I learned a lot from it.

　today's topics "japanese blood type theiry of personality"
Why do the Japanese like to talk about their blood types?(rhroda)


At student parties, the conversation often begins with talk about blood types.
“Hey, what’s your blood type?”
That question works well to break the ice among people who have just met. If someone mentions casually that, “Type O women are really compatible with Type B men,” then the people involved feel closer. (It also works as a pick-up line.)
Few people like to talk about blood types as much as the Japanese do.
However, people who talk about blood types usually aren’t being serious. Most don’t believe that it is really possible to classify personalities into only four categories.

Still, if there’s somebody you don’t like, it’s often easy to get others to understand your feelings by saying, “That guy has Type A blood. I don’t get along with people like that.” Blood types provide a convenient excuse for people obsessed with compatibility and relations with others.
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Even though there’s no basis for claims like “Type O women are really compatible with Type B men,” such statements create bonds that make people feel more comfortable. Rather than believing in blood-type fortunetelling, people feel relieved at being able to put themselves and others into neat pigeonholes.

That the Japanese are able to classify each other by a characteristic as foolish as blood type shows that the Japanese are very similar to each other. In a country that included people of many races, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, such simplistic grouping would be inconceivable.

In fact, it is practically impossible to classify people’s personalities according to four blood types. Perhaps the reason this blood-type fantasy has been created is that, since the Japanese are so similar to each other and difficult to tell apart, blood types help people maintain a sense of individual identity.

In other countries, blood types are thought about only for blood transfusions. Rarely are they ever discussed in relation to people’s personalities.


Japanese blood type theory of personality
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The blood type theory of personality is a popular belief in Japan that a person's ABO blood type is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others, similar to the Western world's astrology. This belief has carried over to some extent in other parts of East Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan. This theory is completely dismissed by many scientists as superstition or pseudoscience.


Japanese Blood Type Personality Chart
Type A
Best Traits: earnest, sensible, dexterous
Worst Traits: fastidious, overearnest.
Type B
Best Traits: wild, a doer, cheerful.
Worst Traits: selfish, irresponsible,
Type AB
Best Traits: cool, controlled, rational.
Worst Traits: critical, indecisive, double character
Type O
Best Traits: agreeable, sociable, an optimist.
Worst Traits: vain, careless.

反応がよくないので様子みて、場合により
やめます。

私は良く見てます。
難しい文章に反応できないだけですよ！

でも、うんともすんとも言われないと
立ち上げた甲斐がないですよ。

面白いトピックだと思いますが。
今更ながら自分の英語のレベルを考えて躊躇していたところです。

でも、つたない文章しか書けませんが暇を見つけて書き込みたいと思います◎

日本語だったらうんくらいは書き込めるけど　Uｈｎ？　か
韓国から書き込もうとしてキーボードの前に座ったけど、
日本語のソフトが入ってないんだよなあ　（当たり前だよな）
結局アルファベットをようタイプしなんだ・・・

sala mat , hanggang sa muli

1. What do you think about the gyoza dampling tainted with pesticide ?
That's the topic we talked about in the last voice in kozoji Nova.

2. What would you do, if you were the leader of Japan or China ?

1.I think Japanese people complain about Chinese problems too much.
First,when the news appeared, people stopped to buy frozen foods and lots of foods made in China.
At first, anyone didn't know the cause of problem. But they said "China is bad."
Second, the Japanese mass media report about the problem like "...gyoza dumpling made in China...." It's also too much objection to China.
Third, Japanese people have a bad impression to China. I feel it's general emotion because lots of problems were already happened, but they usually don't know many things about China. At least, in my university, there are a lot of considerate students from China.
Therefore, I think Japanese people complain about Chinese problems too much.


2.I might investigate quickly and clearly, and communicate a lot. I don't know about circumstance of goverment, but that's the best for nation.

These says a lot of tainted food made in China have been revealed
one after another. And I heard some people criticizing on TV that we Japanese are too much dependant on the import from China in terms of food
and we have to increase food self-sufficiency. But I don't agree with
this idea. Because even though we can provide food for us by ourselves,
we have to import other kinds of things such as oil, gas ,energy and so on. We can't live without other counries' corporation. So we should focus on not how to increase food self-sufficiency but how to corporate with other countries and how to prevent this kind of food problem from happening.

参考までに。
間違ってるかもしれませんが、調べて見て下さい。

Me@肖邦：
?　stopped to buy　は立ち止まって何々するという意味だったかと思います。
　stopped buying が正しいと思います。
?problems were already happened　受身にする必要がないのでは。

ケニーさん：
ありがとうございます○辞書で調べてみました。

１、例文として、　stop to smoke　は《タバコを吸うために立ち止まる》のであって《タバコを吸うのをやめるのではない》と示してありました。

２、関連する様々な例文が出てきましたが、全部能動態でした。


１はいつだったかVOICEでやった気がしました…

What does drinking mean to you ?

Yes, I've been waiting for ケイサン to answer this question.

参考までに
今日のレッスンで、food の扱いについて学びました。

?food は通常単数扱いです。
例）　a lot of food

?例外として食べ物の種類がたくさんあると言いたい場合は複数扱いになるそうです。　
例）　There are lots of different types of healthy foods

Thank you for calling.
Of course, it is nutritive for me.
I can't survive without it.