Culture Corner | What do you hate about your culture?

单集简介 ...

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about aspects of their cultures that they strongly dislike. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here. 00:00:03 Jack And if you would like to become a an exclusive subscriber to the show, you can hit the link in the description and that will take you to our Red Circle page, where for $1.99 a month you will get access to an extra two or three episodes each week. 00:00:23 Jack And be careful, don't hit that donation button if you want to become an exclusive subscriber because the donation button is just a one time donation. However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes. 00:00:42 Jack Each week. 00:00:44 Jack So make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes. 00:00:52 Jack Now let's get on with the show. 00:00:56 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host, Social and social. I thought today we could read the names of a couple of our our patrons. 00:01:09 발표자 Hmm. 00:01:09 Jack And so. 00:01:12 Jack The first one that I want to read is Isabel Isabel from. 00:01:17 Jack Ireland. She's actually. 00:01:19 Xochitl Thank you, Isabel. 00:01:20 Jack Yeah. Thank you, Isabel. She's not from Ireland, but she lives in Ireland and uh, it's very exciting to have her as a patron for the show. Another one of our patrons is Johnny from China. 00:01:37 Xochitl Thank you, Johnny. 00:01:38 Jack Yeah. Thank you, Johnny. Johnny's been on the show. Actually. I interviewed him. And so he's. Yeah, he was on the podcast, and he's amazing. His If you talk to him, he sounds like he's got an American accent. Yeah, it's amazing. Just perfect. 00:01:41 Xochitl Oh, it's great. 00:01:50 Xochitl Oh wow. 00:01:55 Jack Next up, we've got may from Malaysia. 00:01:58 Jack Yeah. 00:01:59 Xochitl Thank you. Day. 00:02:00 Jack Yeah. And Salima from Iran. 00:02:04 Xochitl Thank you, Selina. 00:02:05 Jack Yeah. And Leila from Saudi Arabia. 00:02:09 Xochitl Ohh, thank you, Layla. I love Layla. 00:02:11 Jack Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:02:12 Xochitl Well, that has a very nice voice if anyone's ever heard her voice to the chat. 00:02:17 Jack Yes. 00:02:17 Xochitl I I test with labels boys. 00:02:20 Jack Yeah, she's a very, very sweet voice. Very soft spoken, but yeah, very soothing. Yeah. 00:02:23 Xochitl You have a soothing kind of. 00:02:24 Xochitl A. 00:02:26 Xochitl Calming voice I really enjoy. 00:02:27 Jack Good, good, good podcasting voice, I think. 00:02:29 Xochitl Yeah, I think she would, too, for sure. Anyway, thank you so much to our patrons who are supporting our exclusive content. It really, really allows Jack and I to make more content and higher quality content. So we really, really appreciate it. And thank you so much. Hopefully we will get some more supporters here. And thanks to those who have already begun to support us. 00:02:31 Jack You know. 00:02:51 Jack Yeah. So today's topic is things that you hate about your culture and uh, I'm not going to. 00:02:58 Jack Talk about Korean culture. I'm going to stay away from that because it is not my place or my position to critique Korean culture. I've lived here for 30 or 20 years. But you know, when it comes to critiquing culture, I think you have to do it from your own culture. You know you have to because you're critiquing yourself too. 00:03:20 Jack And. 00:03:21 Jack The things about American culture, probably the number one problem that I have with American culture, is that we're very individualistic. 00:03:31 Jack My problems are my problems. Your problems are your problems. Don't put your problems on me, you know, and I understand that attitude because in some ways I do hate when so