๐คSpeaking Up
๋ด ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ธฐ
If you ever work or study with Americans, you might be surprised by how vocal they are. As you know, independence is very important to Americans. From a young age, weโre taught to speak our minds and share our opinions. We believe that discussion and debate are important parts of a functioning society.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ผํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณต๋ถํด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ธฐ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋์ง ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋์ ์๋ ์์ด์. ์๋ค์ํผ, ๋
๋ฆฝ์ฑ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ ๊ฐ์น์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฆด ๋๋ถํฐ ์๊ธฐ ์๊ฐ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์ฃ . ๋
ผ์์ ํ ๋ก ์ด ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ ๋๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ์ค์ํ ์์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ต๋๋ค.
Sometimes, people confuse this for Americans being loud or opinionated, but itโs just part of our culture. However, even though we can share our opinions, we still have a polite and respectful way of doing it.
๋๋ก๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์๋๋ฝ๊ณ ๊ณ ์ง์ด ์ธ๋ค๊ณ ์คํดํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ ๋จ์ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ผ๋ถ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์์. ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋๋ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ์คํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฅผ ์กด์คํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ํํํฉ๋๋ค.
When weโre in a meeting, for the most part, we donโt just shout out our thoughts whenever they come to us. Typically, we take notes and wait for our turn to speak. Usually, a boss will give his or her employees a chance to voice their opinions about a new plan or policy. Youโre even allowed to turn your boss down if he or she makes a request you donโt agree with.
ํ์ ์ค์๋ ๋ณดํต ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ์ค๋ฅธ๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๊ณง๋ฐ๋ก ํฐ ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋งํ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ธํ ์ฐจ๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ฃ . ๋ณดํต ์์ฌ๋ ์ง์๋ค์๊ฒ ์๋ก์ด ๊ณํ์ด๋ ์ ์ฑ
์ ๋ํด ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋งํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ค๋๋ค. ์์ฌ์ ์์ฒญ์ผ์ง๋ผ๋ ๋์ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ์ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
The same is true for students. While we canโt really refuse to do our homework, we can tell a professor if the work seems to be too much. We might also call out a professor for using language that we find offensive or for stating an opinion as a fact.
ํ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์
๋๋ค. ๊ณผ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐ๋๋ฉด ๊ต์์๊ฒ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋งํ ์ ์์ด์. ๋ ๋ถ์พ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ ์ธ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์๊ฒฌ์ ์ฌ์ค์ธ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋งํ๋ ๊ต์๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ธฐํ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
I had reverse culture shock when I taught adult Korean students who struggled to share their opinions or participate in group discussions. Most Americans love to tell you how they feel. That being said, there are some shy Americans who prefer to be quiet and hate group projects. There are individuals everywhere.
์ ๋ ์ฑ์ธ ํ๊ตญ ํ์๋ค๊ณผ ์์
ํ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ค์ด ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ ๋ก ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ด๋ ค์ํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ญ๋ฌธํ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์์ด์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก , ์กฐ์ฉํ ์๋ ๊ฑธ ์ ํธํ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ซ์ดํ๋ ๋ดํฅ์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ ์์ง์. ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ฑํฅ์ ์ด๋์๋ ์กด์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
If you ever get a chance to work or study with an American, see it as a chance to share your opinions. Iโm sure they would love to hear what youโre thinking, too!
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ผํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณต๋ถํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ๋ฉด, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ก ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์ธ์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ช
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