{"id":52112,"date":"2017-01-26T01:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/aee-677-americans-competition-busiest\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:27:43","slug":"aee-677-americans-competition-busiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/aee-677-americans-competition-busiest\/","title":{"rendered":"AEE 677: Why Americans Are in a Competition to Be the Busiest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/why-Americans-are-so-busy-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"why Americans are so busy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/why-Americans-are-so-busy-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/why-Americans-are-so-busy.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/aee-290-get-off-the-hampster-wheel-the-epidemic-of-busy-in-the-united-states\/\">busy<\/a> these days?&nbsp;<\/span>When someone asks you how you are, do you say you\u2019re busy?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you really busy? Or is it just the thing to say?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you think it\u2019s good to be busy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many Americans think it\u2019s a great thing to be busy or at least that\u2019s the way it seems based on the way people in the US usually respond to \u201chow are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We found a great article in Harvard Business Review called <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/12\/research-why-americans-are-so-impressed-by-busyness\">Why Americans Are So Impressed with Busyness<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article was written&nbsp;by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ilvia Bellezza,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neeru Paharia, and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anat Keinan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode we\u2019ll dig into this article and we\u2019ll give you our opinions on why Americans think it\u2019s so great to be busy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/transcripts\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/All-Ears-English-Transcripts-208x300.png?x75886&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42&amp;7e6c42\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/All-Ears-English-Transcripts-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/All-Ears-English-Transcripts-709x1024.png 709w, https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/All-Ears-English-Transcripts.png 720w\" alt=\"All Ears English Transcripts\" width=\"160\" height=\"231\"><\/a><strong>Make sure you understand every word you hear on All Ears English.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring your English to the advanced level with new vocabulary and natural expressions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the transcripts from today\u2019s episode.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn to speak naturally with the American accent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/transcripts\">Click here to download them instantly.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has it always been cool to be busy in the US?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the article they said there have been more ads (TV and magazine) showing busy people and lives compared in a glamorous light than ads showing people with slow-paced and leisurely lives since the 1990\u2019s.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades Americans seem to have started to value being busy more and more.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writers in the article summarized a few studies that were done on 35 year old males and females. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study #1: How do you buy your groceries?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Peapod (grocery delivery for busy people) versus Whole Foods (expensive grocery store for wealthy people versus Trader Joes (budget grocery store that you walk into and spend time shopping).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who was perceived as having the highest social status? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peapod shoppers and Whole Foods were seen as having the same social status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the people who needed to save time by having groceries ordered had the same social status as those who bought the most expensive groceries at the fanciest grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study #2: Hands free blue tooth versus listening to music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second study they measured the perceived social status of people using a hands-free blue tooth (talking on phones, having meetings) v<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ersus the perceived social status of people who were l<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">istening to music on their headphones while out on the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which person was perceived as having a higher social status? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The person with the Bluetooth had a higher perceived social status than the person who was listening to music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does \u201cbusy\u201d look to other cultures?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the US compared with Italy they found that while busyness in work life means higher status for Americans, in Italy it\u2019s the reverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writers of the article theorized that it might be due to two things:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1-Italians have a healthier attitude toward work-life balance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2-There is not as much of an opportunity to be socially mobile<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s both combined and reason #1 leads to reason #2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The American obsession with being \u201cbusy\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US society has a huge work ethic and a lot of it comes from the idea that you could actually change your position in society if you work hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This concept is in our language when we use phrases such as &nbsp;\u201cpull yourself up by your bootstraps\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s hear from you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do people usually respond to \u201chow are you\u201d in your culture? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do they respond that way? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the underlying value?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> If you are from Europe or Italy, what is your perspective on the hypotheses?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does someone who is busy get perceived as having a higher social and economic status in your country?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you busy these days?&nbsp;When someone asks you how you are, do you say you\u2019re busy? 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