Tapestry Listening & Speaking 2 CNN® Video ... - Heinle & Heinle

TRANSLATOR FOR INTERVIEWEE #2: I DON'T THINK MEN ARE ROMANTIC AT ALL.
INTERVIEWEE #3: I THINK THAT JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE NOT ROMANTIC.
REPORTER: THE LACK OF ROMANCE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMPLAINTS JAPANESE MEN
AND WOMEN HAVE ABOUT EACH OTHER. IN A RECENT SURVEY BY HARLEQUIN PUBLISHING--
AS IN ROMANCE NOVELS-- MEN IN 19 COUNTRIES WERE ASKED TO RATE THE ROMANCE
LEVEL OF WOMEN. THE RESULT: JAPANESE WOMEN RANKED THE WORST. WHY? WELL, FOR
ONE, THE MEN SAY THEY SELDOM HEAR THE "L" WORD, AND WHEN THE SURVEY ASKED IF
THEY COULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, WOULD THEY MARRY THE SAME PERSON? 25% OF THE
JAPANESE MEN SAID "NO WAY," THE HIGHEST OF THOSE SURVEYED.
TRANSLATOR FOR INTERVIEWEE #4: I WOULDN'T GET MARRIED WITH THE SAME PERSON. I
THINK I'D BE BETTER OFF WITH SOMEONE ELSE.
REPORTER: HOLD ON, THOUGH. THIS IS NOT A ONE-WAY STREET. TWO YEARS AGO, THE
SAME SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED ON WOMEN. THE CONCLUSION: JAPANESE MEN ARE THE MOST
UNROMANTIC IN THE WORLD. THE PROBLEM MAY HAVE TO DO WITH CULTURE. TO BEGIN
WITH, THE WORD "ROMANTIC" DOESN'T EVEN EXIST IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE.
TRANSLATOR FOR INTERVIEWEE #5: I THINK, TO JAPANESE, ROMANCE IS A FANTASY,
AND THEY LEAVE THEIR FANTASY UNTOUCHED, AND WHEN THEY THINK OF THE REALITY,
THEY DON'T INCLUDE THAT ROMANTIC ELEMENT IN THE REAL SIDE.
REPORTER: BUT IF THEY COULD, HOW WOULD THEY EXPRESS THEIR AFFECTION?
TRANSLATOR FOR INTERVIEWEE #6: A PERFECT ROMANTIC DATE FOR ME IS BEING
TOGETHER IN A ROOM, AND THE FEWER THE WORDS SPOKEN, THE MORE ROMANTIC.
REPORTER: SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE ROMANTIC. MAY LEE, CNN, TOKYO.
Chapter 8: Jeans for Everyone
REPORTER: HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT COMPANIES THAT MAKE JEANS HAVE NOTICED THAT
MOST OF US DON'T WANT TO SQUEEZE INTO TIGHT JEANS ANYMORE? AND LEE IS LEADING
THE PACK WITH AN AD CAMPAIGN TO LET WOMEN KNOW THAT THEIR JEANS FIT A WOMAN'S
GENES. AND LEVI'S HAD LAUNCHED A NEW OUTDOOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN SO THAT
WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR THE BUS, YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE NEW, SHAPELIER SHAPE
OF WOMEN WEARING JEANS. ADD TO THAT LIZ CLAIBORNE'S JEANS WITH ROOM TO MOVE,
CALVIN KLEIN'S CLASSIC WOMEN'S FIT, AND DKNY'S DESIGNS THAT DEIFY THE HIPS,
AND YOU'VE GOT A REAL FASHION REVOLUTION HERE.
DKNY REPRESENTATIVE, CATHY LORENZO: TARA IS ONE OF OUR ASSOCIATES, AND SHE'S
GOT ON A PAIR OF JUST THE BASIC FIVE-POCKET JEANS FROM DKNY, AND YOU'LL SEE
SHE'S GOT A NICE LITTLE BODY HERE, AND WHAT'S REAL INTERESTING TO SUPPORT,
IT'S NOT THAT BOY CUT ANYMORE, WHERE WOMEN DON'T HAVE WAISTLINES. THEY DO, OF
SOME SORT, AND THEY'VE GOT CURVES.
INTERVIEWEE: SEEING THE SLIM-FIGURED WOMAN IS NOT WHAT APPLIES TO EVERY
HOUSEHOLD. SO I DO-- I THINK IT'S GOOD. I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT THEY DO THAT.
DR. BERNIE KAHAN: THE IDEA THAT THE CLOTHES WE WEAR AND THE ADVERTISING OF
THE CLOTHES WE WEAR SHOULD FIT HOW WE ARE AND NOT TRY TO FORCE US TO BE
SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WE REALLY ARE. I THINK IT'S A REAL GOOD MESSAGE.