Culture?
We especially girls are very sensitive about sun in Japan. When we go outside, we put sunscreen on our face, neck, arms, legs...any exposed skin and wear hat and arm cover. Besides we use umbrella to protect from sun. It is because if we bask in ultraviolet ray it may cause spot and blotch. There is a story about this thing. When I studied abroad in the states, I always use umbrella in sunny and cloudy day even though it is not raining. Everyone looked at me and laughed. Then I realized using umbrella in sunny day is strange and we overcare about protecting our skin from ultraviolet rays. It is fun to learn things that we think normal but it's not in foreign country.
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Culture?
In Japan, girls especially, very sensitive about sun towards being in the sun. When we go outside, we put sunscreen on our face, neck, arms, legs, any exposed skin and wear a hat and sleeves. Besides that, we use umbrellas for protection from sun. This is because if we bask in ultraviolet rays it may cause spots and blotches. There is a story about this thing. When I studied abroad in the states, I always used an umbrella on sunny and cloudy days even when it was not raining. Everyone looked at me and laughed. Then I realized using an umbrella on a sunny day is strange and we care too much about protecting our skin from ultraviolet rays. It is fun learning that some things we think are normal, aren't seen the same way in other countries.0
Eigo no Sensei
When I was in high school, I studied abroad in Australia. Then I was surprised that teachers were forced me to put sunscreen on and wear a hat in athletic carnival.
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In Australia, the sun's ultraviolet rays are particularly strong because of a weakness in the ozone layer (オゾンホール?) nearby. So most people are educated from a young age to protect ourselves from the sun. But this is mainly to protect ourselves from skin cancer (which is very common in Australia), not to meet society's beauty standards. In fact, in years gone by, tanning was often culturally desirable and considered attractive, which I supposed is the opposite to Japan. Some people in Australia still feel that way, but it's changing as we become more aware of the dangers of skin cancer. In Australia we are encouraged to wear a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen and a T-shirt in the sun, but walking around with an umbrella would be pretty unusual in Australia.
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Anyone can correct this sentences?
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The most reason to protect our skin is that we don't want to get a tan. Japanese skin are kind of yellow so we want white skin. But I don't know why
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