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S02E07: Listen and learn..

10/23/08 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Uncategorized

I am currently in the waiting room of a hospital. Nothing serious, just checking on my arm that I hurt last week and it doesn't seem to heal. However, I found something really interesting here that I am keeping myself entertained with. There are some people here talking to each other in another language. (I hope I don't offend any of you by writing this, I am sorry if I do). I would guess that it is Turkish or something similar. I don't dare to ask them what language it is since I been listening for quite a while now, long waiting times in Swedish hospitals.. However, that is not the interesting thing.
I haven't understand a single word of what they have said, beside a few phrases of Swedish that they have mixed in. Even with not understanding one word, I still have an idea of what they are talking about. They are very expressive and use there a lot of body language to express themselves. Compared to swedes talking they are much more expressive. They use different tone in when talking about different important things. If swedes where talking in the same way I would defiantly think that they where arguing. That's what I though that these people also where doing at first, however, after more careful listening I realized that they where just talking about everyday things. They are incredibly friendly towards all doctors and people who approach them.
Form this I can defiantly see a lot of conflicts between cultures arise. You can't really be that expressive when talking to a “regular” swede. Well, swedes are a little strange in usual but I can defiantly see a lot of prejudiced coming from this.
As I said, I though they where fighting at first, however, I was clearly mistaken. Don't make the same mistake.

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