英語学習 アメリカの出来事 日本を英語で説明

This one is from Rita Mae Brown on the reward for conformity:

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

The quote is very relevant to life in America. What about Japan?

These harsh words on economic forecasting are from John Kenneth Galbraith:

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

We hope it is not that bad, but we are not sure.

Today, we would like to present another piece of sushi made in America: Tokyo Tower.

Click the link above to see the photo at our site. Here is text describing the photo:

This is the Tokyo Tower, which is avocado, seaweed, rice, tuna, soft-shelled crab, and salmon. Usually, we cannot eat crab shell. The exception is when the crab molts, shedding the old shell and growing a new shell. Then we get soft-shell crab, which is both edible and delicious. The Tokyo Tower is available in English only. There is no Japanese name.

We can find sushi the world over. Some is like the sushi in Japan; some is different.

This one is from R. D. Laing on the speedy of change and our lives:

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing is short for Ronald David Laing. We would like to quote from Wikipedia on him:

Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 - 23 August 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Often associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, he himself rejected the label as such, as did certain others critical of conventional psychiatry at the time.

Please click the link above if you would like to read more about him.

This is from James M. Barrie on what work really is:

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie was the creator of Peter Pan. Until Barrie, the name Wendy was also very rare. He made it into a common name.