We played role play exercise of pregnant situation. We assumed that we are in famous restaurant and then suddenly someone comes to me in order to say “hello”. Luise was someone and we were eating together. In this situation, Luis said that congratulation~! Finally you got a baby~! How long have you had your angle?? However, actually, she was not pregnant. So, she just tried to avoid this situation with joke. She said “Oh.. um.. yeah nice to meet you. Yes right I think I have to stop eating anymore hahaha”. And then Luise said “Oh.. alright.. Sorry and I’m sorry to interrupt your dinner nice to meet you, too.”
I think that we have almost the same way to compliment and insult of the world. But, even so, there are little bit differences each other.
At first, in USA, Americans would like to compliment others. Whenever I attend my classes, I can see the situation that professor compliments students or students do that each other, sometimes, it is just simple expression though. However, in Korea, even though we compliment, it does not happen as much as America. We only applaud in the situation when we really need and they really deserve getting praise. I think Chile has middle characteristics between America and Korea. Sometimes, they express aggressively and sometimes they rarely compliment. Another interesting thing is that when Korean gets praise from others, we do not tend to accept compliment directly. For instance, if somebody says “Wow it is very nice shirt~!”, we almost respond like this “really? No.. it is not good as much as you think” Korean regard such this expression as polite expression. If we say “Yes, I think so”, it can be seen kind of rude.
The way to insult is quite similar to each country. The most common thinking accepted by people is that we do not have to insult others directly, even though somebody makes me so upset except for special situation. If we are in the situation when we need to complain about something, it is best method to explain what is wrong and correct indirectly and politely. But, I think insult depends on each personality. In Korea, we have always been educated about the thing which we have to respect others even in unreasonable situation. However, one friend of mine does not care about such courtesy. Of course, he has quite good manner, unless he get an unreasonable disadvantage. In USA, they have also such person like a friend of mind. That is why I think that insult depends on personality rather than country’s custom [of course, culture of country cannot be neglected.]
Especially, Jess said those characteristics of compliment and insult are slightly different from states. When Jess went to New York, she waited for ferry to visit the statue of liberty. After they allowed people to go inside ferry, so many people tried to get in simultaneously and there was someone who held a baby and pushed a baby cart in the line for ferry. Since she could not control herself with babies, it was little bit delayed to get in ferry. In this situation, someone beyond the woman yelled out hurry up at her. Jess said “if the place was located in Mississippi, such horrible event did not happen.”
As we can see, we have almost the same reaction in these situations. Even though there are little bit different things, it can be ignored in terms of having similar situation. Moreover, I think the most common thing is that we always try to respect others and such way to respect is quite similar no matter where we live in.
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