🍽️確認したい単語🗣️
storytelller...語り手
ritual...決まったやり方、儀式
awkward...不器用な、ぎこちない
demarcation...境界、区分、区別
🧡open up - speak more easily than usual, particularly about worries and problems
🧡the ... one e,g, the funny one, the wise one - a label for a person describing a particular prominent charastic they have
🧡a pinch of salt - don't believe everything you're told
🧡children should be seen and not heard - an old-fasioned phrase meaning children shoud be quite and behave well
🧡mixed bag - something that has good and bad aspects
🧡culture shock - an uncertainh feeling when in a new and different environment
A lot can happen around the dinner table. They are gossip, arguments, and so on. You might meet the love of your life on a blind dinner date, or find out you're a great storyteller. Eating at the table was an important ritual. It was something we did everyday and quite often, and the only time we could get together and chat. So the dinner table is a space that familes across the world get together at to not only eat but chat, and often the only point in the day or week that the whole family gathers togher.
While eating with a group, you might feel that you need to act in a certain way because of the people around you. For example, if we're only in one group, we might think 'Oh, I'm the funny one', we might think that's who we are. But when we go to another group, we find 'Oh, I'm the wise one'. If you feel like you're assingned a role in your family, take that with a little bit of pinch of salt. That is to say, you shoudn't believe or do everything you're told or that expected of you.
Now over time, interactions at the dinner table have changed. In the past, children were sometimes seated on a different table to adults or told they shoud be seen and not hear -an old-fasioned phrase emphasisng that children should be quite and always on their best behavior. The older generation's reactions to hear children's questions at the table can be a mixed bag. A mixed bag is a situation that can have positive and negative aspects. Because our children haven't really been raised that line of demarcation between the adult table and the kid table, it's overwhelming positive, but it is kind of a culture shock for them to hear my children ask the question that they ask.
In my opinion, we can get many instructive informations by eating with people regardless of communities or generations. It might be important opportunities to make ourselves.
