海外の反日宣伝活動に英語で対応するスレ Part 36
641 ：名無しさん＠英語勉強中：
Memoirs of a modern-day geisha
Lea Jacobson's tell-all of her life in Tokyo's shadows reveals more than she bargained for
Jacobson's journey begins when she arrives in Japan to teach at the Happy Learning School of English in Kanagawa.
The school arranges for her to live with a Japanese host family, and as a recent English/Japanese graduate with high expectations,
she immediately immerses herself in the language and customs.
It doesn't take long, however, before she feels the strain of fitting into a foreign society.
After an argument with a Japanese psychiatrist who informs her school of her medical history, Jacobson is fired and forced to move elsewhere.
Feeling betrayed by the psychiatrist's breach of confidentiality and horrified at her school's swiftness to label her with a "mental condition" of debilitating proportion,
Jacobson stops trying to conform.
"Bar Flower" takes on a more serious tone when it inevitably arrives at the topic of Lucie Blackman,
the British hostess whose gruesome murder in 2000 made international headlines. While Jacobson doesn't deny
there is an element of risk involved, she sheds light on the unfair misconceptions about hostessing and the distorted portrayals of Blackman that were promulgated by both Western and Japanese media.
As if to help restore Blackman's reputation, Blackman's story is not introduced until more than halfway through her memoir, by which point readers have already gained a better understanding
of hostesses and their work.
Blackman also serves as a reminder to Jacobson that as a hostess, she is fortunate. At their worst,
her clients are arrogant or juvenile, but they are never dangerous or abusive. The biggest threat to
Jacobson is in fact herself — her inexplicable low self-esteem, which she only makes worse with alcohol.
After a few unsuccessful attempts, Jacobson eventually stops hostessing.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20081026a2.html
Lea Jacobson's tell-all of her life in Tokyo's shadows reveals more than she bargained for
Jacobson's journey begins when she arrives in Japan to teach at the Happy Learning School of English in Kanagawa.
The school arranges for her to live with a Japanese host family, and as a recent English/Japanese graduate with high expectations,
she immediately immerses herself in the language and customs.
It doesn't take long, however, before she feels the strain of fitting into a foreign society.
After an argument with a Japanese psychiatrist who informs her school of her medical history, Jacobson is fired and forced to move elsewhere.
Feeling betrayed by the psychiatrist's breach of confidentiality and horrified at her school's swiftness to label her with a "mental condition" of debilitating proportion,
Jacobson stops trying to conform.
"Bar Flower" takes on a more serious tone when it inevitably arrives at the topic of Lucie Blackman,
the British hostess whose gruesome murder in 2000 made international headlines. While Jacobson doesn't deny
there is an element of risk involved, she sheds light on the unfair misconceptions about hostessing and the distorted portrayals of Blackman that were promulgated by both Western and Japanese media.
As if to help restore Blackman's reputation, Blackman's story is not introduced until more than halfway through her memoir, by which point readers have already gained a better understanding
of hostesses and their work.
Blackman also serves as a reminder to Jacobson that as a hostess, she is fortunate. At their worst,
her clients are arrogant or juvenile, but they are never dangerous or abusive. The biggest threat to
Jacobson is in fact herself — her inexplicable low self-esteem, which she only makes worse with alcohol.
After a few unsuccessful attempts, Jacobson eventually stops hostessing.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20081026a2.html
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