泣いても大丈夫!? Okay to cry in public!?

  私[わたし]は異文化間[いぶんかかん]コミュニケーション(= cross-cultural communication)に興味[きょうみ]があります。この分野[ぶんや] (= field)の研究[けんきゅう] (study)結果[けっか] (= result)を読[よ]むと「日本人[にほんじん]は感情[かんじょう] (= emotion)をあまり表[あらわ]さない(= not express)」「はっきり言[い]わない」という記述[きじゅつ] (= description)を見[み]ます。でも、このニュースは…。 I am interested in cross-cultural communication. I often read about Japanese tendency that Japanese people rarely show their emotion in public or they would not say much directly. But this news made me re-think on reports from those previous studies…

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