【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode4-5/5)

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人们往往以为交流是简单而又单一的方式。可是本期主播Marc Beeby认为交流并不只是一个简单的过程，它其间还有很多其妙的事情发生。一起来听听吧。
       

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        Rebecca Fong
         
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When I first went to work in Japan, I was working with a group of American trainers on the one hand and the Japanese on the other hand. So in a way I was caught between two cultures with which I wasn't really very familiar and I soon started to notice differences in confrontation styles, so that when the Americans had a problem they would very quickly want to get the problem out into the open, verbally, argue it, discuss it and this would make them feel better and the problem would go away. With the Japanese on the other hand you'd come into work one day and you'd know, you could feel it in the air, that there was a problem, something was wrong. But nobody said anything and you could feel this for a succession of days, it might have been two or three days sometimes and still no one would said anything. And then finally one day you'd come into work and you could feel that the air had cleared. Whatever the problem had been it had disappeared. I've always wondered which was better.
And of course, as Rebecca Fong would be the first to say, there is no better. There's just different. The important thing, as we've said in previous programmes, is to be aware of these different communication styles, and to think about how we like to communicate. If we do this, it can help us find ways of avoiding communication problems when we meet people from foreign cultures, and teach us a lot about our own.