【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode6-4/5)

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来自不同文化的人对待时间和空间的态度也会千差万别.跟本期主播Marc Beeby一起来开开眼界吧。
         
       

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        Rebecca Fong
        Dionne Charmaine
        Jamaica
        Mounia El Kouche
        Morocco
        Eilidh Hamilton
        Kyung-ja Yoo
         
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全文听写
As we've heard, the way we think about time is a reflection of our ideas about order and organisation. Do we like to do one thing at a time, or are we happy to do several things at once? Exactly the same sort of considerations and differences can be seen in the way cultures like to organise space. Take public spaces, for example. In Arab cultures a public space is a place where people can come together, often in very large numbers, to talk, do business, socialize. These are often very busy, active places, with lots of things going on at once. This is not really the same in, say, modern British or American towns, which are often built around a long thin main street where people can't gather in groups in quite the same way. The differences in the design and use of these public spaces are cultural differences. And we can see these differences even more clearly in the way we design and use the spaces in our houses. Rebecca Fong explains, with illustrations from Dionne Charmaine from Jamaica, Mounia El Kouche from Morocco, Eilidh Hamilton, and Kyung-ja Yoo from Japan.
Even the organisation of our cities and our villages and our housing can be a reflection of our cultural requirements for space. British culture, for example, separates rooms into different functions so that you have the kitchen for cooking in the dining room for eating in the bedroom for sleeping in and we're very protective of our individual spaces so we love to have our own bedrooms and we have our own chairs and we have our own secret drawers. This is very different in other cultures.
The house had a massive back yard and front garden space, which is standard to Jamaican houses, they have loads of space. We played a lot outside,more outside than inside. It was almost as if the whole neighbourhood was your house or your home so to speak, you had a big family and you were always into each other's spaces ,it was never private.  
An average Moroccan home varies from place to place. In the countryside made of stone usually and very often there'll be a courtyard in the middle, an open roof, perhaps a fountain and very traditional mosaic designs around the walls, even the floors and perhaps the ceilings too.