シャドーイング練習: Who decides what is socially “normal”? | Christine Emba - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Why do cultures develop social norms?
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The clearest answer to me is that they're shortcuts.
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They provide you with a general guidebook of how to behave in society, at least for the place and time that you're in, and that can ideally help you live a better life.
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Social norms that are enforced by our communities
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or by broader groups also come with enforcement mechanisms that are often more effective than our own knowledge.
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The positive motivations that we feel when we engage in social norms, a sense of pride, accomplishment,
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being looked upon happily by other people, are powerful.
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And then the negative reinforcements, a sense of guilt when we transgress social norms, help keep us in line.
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But we're in a moment right now where society is changing rapidly
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and where many of us are not sure whether old social norms still apply.
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How do you evaluate whether a social norm is past its sell -by date, whether it's still useful in the modern era?
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The English writer G .K.
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Chesterton talks about what one should do if you encounter a fence unattended in a field.
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Some people might have the impulse to just tear it down.
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After all, what is it doing there standing alone in this field?
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But he actually suggests that one should investigate.
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The fence may not seem useful to you in this moment, but it was probably put there for a reason,
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and one should try and figure out what that reason was before discarding the fence entirely.
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I think that notion can be applied to social norms too, even ones that seem outdated.
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So, here's one example.
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Should men open doors for women?
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When you're trying to figure out whether a norm has any use still, it's helpful to look at what it was there for originally.
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Was it there to help someone, to protect, to orient society in a useful way?
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Is that use case still in some way valid now?
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If so, maybe that norm is still doing something good, even if it isn't evident immediately to you.
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With the dissolving of social norms, some people are looking for guidance.
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So who do people look to for guidance in the past?
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They look to their parents, their families.
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They look to religious leaders and sometimes state leaders.
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Who do people look to for guidance now?
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Well, let's say the slate has grown.
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It kind of feels like there's a coach for anything, whether it's meditation or parenting or how to become the best CEO.
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There are lifestyle influencers, fitness influencers, there are beauty gurus and masculinity gurus.
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So what's problematic about seeking the guidance of a self -described expert?
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The problem is in the self -described.
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They may say they're expert, but are they really? what qualifications do they have and why should you believe them?
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And then again, there's the question of what social norms are for and how they're built.
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Ideally, social norms are adapted to situations, times, and places, and the communities that they're embedded in.
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A social norm that may be fit for one community or one kind of person may not be applicable to everyone else.
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Similarly, the advice given by a fitness guru or a beauty influencer might sell well on the internet,
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but might not actually be tailored helpfully to you.
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ネイティブスピーカーのリズムとストレスを真似るには、重要な単語を強調することがポイントです。例えば、「The fence may not seem useful to you in this moment」では「fence」「useful」「moment」にストレスを置きます。また、文の途中で適切なポーズを入れることで、リズムが自然になります。英語シャドーイングの練習にはshadowing siteやshadowspeaksなどのツールを使うと効果的で、毎日少しずつ練習することで急速に上達します。

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