โWhy Americans Donโt Use Umbrellas in Light Rain
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋๋น์ ์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ์ ์ธ๊น?
One thing that really surprised me about living in Korea is how everyone uses umbrellas. In contrast, most Americans donโt, especially when itโs only sprinkling. There are a few reasons for this.
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ด๋ฉด์ ์ ๋ง ๋๋๋ ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ค ์ฐ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ค๋ ์ ์ด์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋๋ก ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฐ๋๋ฐ, ํนํ ๋น๊ฐ ๋ณด์ฌ๋ณด์ฌ ๋ด๋ฆด ๋๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋์. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์.
First, most Americans donโt spend much time walking outdoors. Since our cities are so spread out, we usually drive from place to place. This means that if it starts raining and we donโt have an umbrella, itโs usually no big deal. We can just make a quick dash to the car or the nearest building.
์ฒซ์งธ, ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ผ์ธ์์ ๊ฑธ์ด ๋ค๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ง์ง ์์์. ๋์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ธธ์ด์ ๋ณดํต ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ค๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋น๊ฐ ์ค๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋๋ฐ ์ฐ์ฐ์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ๋๊ฐ ํฐ์ผ์ ์๋์์. ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฐจ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋ก ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ด๊ฐ๋ฉด ๋๋๊น์.
Second, many Americans wear durable or casual clothing that isnโt easily ruined by the rain. Jeans, t-shirts, baseball caps, sweatshirts, and even hunting jackets are common choices, so people arenโt too worried about getting a little wet.
๋์งธ, ๋ง์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋น์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๊ฐ์ง์ง ์๋ ํผํผํ๊ณ ์บ์ฃผ์ผํ ์ท์ ์
์ด์. ์ฒญ๋ฐ์ง, ํฐ์
์ธ , ์ผ๊ตฌ ๋ชจ์, ๋งจํฌ๋งจ ๊ฐ์ ์ท์ด ํํ๊ณ , ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฌ๋ฅ์ฉ ์ฌํท๋ ์์ฃผ ์
์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์กฐ๊ธ ์ ๋ ๊ฑด ํฌ๊ฒ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ์์ฃ .
Carrying an umbrella can also be inconvenient. Itโs easy to forget to bring one, and checking the weather isnโt always a habit. Since many people drive anyway, being caught in a light rain usually doesnโt matter.
์ฐ์ฐ์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ค๋๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ธ ๋๋ ์์ด์. ๊น๋นกํ๊ณ ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ฝ๊ณ , ๋ ์จ๋ฅผ ๋งค๋ฒ ํ์ธํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ต๊ด์ ์๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด์ฐจํผ ๋ค๋ค ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋๊น, ๊ฐ๋๋น ์ ๋๋ ๋ณ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ง ์์์.
Of course, there are exceptions. In walkable cities like New York or Chicago, umbrellas are more common. Theyโre also used frequently in the Pacific Northwest, where rain is more persistent. And when people dress up for weddings, business meetings, or other formal events, umbrellas become necessary.
๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ธ๋ ์์ด์. ๋ด์์ด๋ ์์นด๊ณ ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๋ค๋๊ธฐ ์ข์ ๋์์์๋ ์ฐ์ฐ ์ฐ๋ ์ผ์ด ๋ ํํด์. ๋น๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ณ ์ค๋ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ถ์๋ถ ์ง์ญ์์๋ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ์์ฃผ ์ฐ๊ณ ์. ๋ ๊ฒฐํผ์์ด๋ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๋ฏธํ
์ฒ๋ผ ๊ฒฉ์ ์๋ ํ์ฌ๋ก ์ฐจ๋ ค์
์ ๋๋ ์ฐ์ฐ์ด ๊ผญ ํ์ํด์ ธ์.
So, while it may seem surprising that Americans often skip umbrellas, there are practical reasons behind it. Whether or not you agree with them is another story.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ข
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์ฐ์ฐ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ง ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋ค์๋ ์ด๋ฐ ํ์ค์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ ์ด์ ์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ ์ง๋ ์ฌ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ค๋ฅผ ํ
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