Engligh Comp Pepsi

INTRODUCTION

Should women be allowed to serve in combat units? With the way todays wars are fought, women already find themselves in the line of fire. Even with the current restrictions, women are being trained, given weapons, and fighting alongside with men in combat. The Army and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq duck the policy by coming up with the term “attaching” someone to a unit rather than “assigning”, and they’ve been doing it for almost ten years now. Whether the law says women are or not allowed to be assigned to combat roles, its already happening. There are opponents to this idea, many questioning whether women have the necessary strength and stamina needed for combat.

CULTURAL EVALUATION – JAPAN

In American culture, any event that involves two parties with opposing opinions, whether its two people talking about unimportant everyday matter to a political debate, we always do arguing to some extent. When you’re having an argument with someone, you’re usually not trying to understand what the other person is saying. Instead, you’re getting your response ready: listening for weaknesses in what they’re saying so you can counter it to make the other person look bad and yourself look good. It might not necessarily be because you’re angry, but because for some reason deep down inside you want to win the argument. It’s pretty common in American culture in terms of arguments and debates (elaborate debate structure). Therefore, the talk is structured to suit to attain the goal of the argument.

George Lakoff (1980) say 'Many of the things we do in arguing are partially

structured by the concept of wars. Though there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure of an argument－attack, defense, counter attack, etc－reflects this (p.4).'

Japanese culture! The direction of the discussion is to fit each other, compromise, harmonize, but not win and lose. In a meeting, they don’t have an argument where they try to disagree...