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Claude>concept "Speak in loud voice"? How many dB would be ??? :-)
Chiaki> 	Just lould enough to wake up your neighbors and make them
Chiaki> angry enough to complain to you or to your landlady :-)
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In fact, my wife is a psychologist (Should I cross-post it for
fj.sci.psychology, too? :-) ) and she researched about this concept
of "loud" sounds. The reason was why some people complained about
mexican people living in USA about their "noises". Then, someone
used an equipment to see how many dB would be in a mexican home
and another in an "american" home. Many times, "american" who
complained about mexican had in fact much more noise (in dB)
than american did... The fact is : If someone talk in my native
language, after a time, I'll "filter" the sound from my mind,
but if someone is speaking in "foreigner" language, I'll take
it as "noisy" and some people may feel bad with it. I see it,
how many times I'm speaking inside the train as the japanese
do, and many times people look to me like feeling bad about
it... :-) Isn't it interesting? 


Chiaki> 	If you company people knew this, and OK'ed it, then maybe you
Chiaki> have to live by with it. But when you want to bring your friends to
Chiaki> your room just tell the landlady that they are your
Chiaki> sisters/brothers/cousins, etc. She may think that you have a BIG
Chiaki> family :-)

Sure, I have the BIGGEST family ever in the world... :-)

Claude> It's very interesting to know there's some comitee for Human Rights

Could you tell me where could I contact that Human Rights comitee? My wife
is interested on that because she is working as a volunteer counselour for
AIDS patients and AIDS related problems here in Japan. She said there is
a lot of problems with Human Rights in those cases and probably she would
be interested to follow up some cases to that comitee. Some japanese would
be very impressed if they know how many people come to look for information
in these days...

ciao,
 


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