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He defines an ideogram as a sign that represents an idea or concept, and identifies Chinese as an ideogramic language in this lecture.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...chose to return to China because at that time I had Chinese language skills. I had a journalism experience. And so they're more optimistic..."
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Jiang says there is no straightforward Chinese word for empathy, making the concept difficult to translate and publicly introduce in China.
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He repeats that Chinese lacks a word that fully captures empathy as a technical concept, even though it has neighboring words such as sympathy and compassion.
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Jiang says the school has been trying for many months to translate empathy into Chinese and still cannot find a satisfactory term.
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Rebecca says Chinese has smaller phrases that mean thinking for other people, but no term as broad as empathy.
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He argues that even if a Chinese term could be invented to capture the essence of empathy, the coined word would still lack the accumulated meaning and impact the English term already has.
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"So, what this is saying is, if you work for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so,..."
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"So, now you have a concept, an idea, day, okay? We call this an ideogram. And guess what, guys? Chinese is an ideogramic language...."
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"Empathy itself is not a very well -known concept. In fact, there's actually no Chinese word for empathy. We've been trying for the past..."
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"We use the word explicitly. But for us, it's very hard to translate into Chinese. And so there lacks a understanding of the concept..."
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"know the sort of education that that really smart Americans Receive they go in the workplace expecting be treated as equals expecting expected to..."
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"Yeah, yeah, it's not empathy. Yeah and compassion. Is there a word for compassion? That's similar, but not quite. Yeah"
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"There's word for compassion, but you know empathy. It's a very much a technical term with a lot of connotations that just aren't captured..."
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"So coming closer, okay, so, so Rebecca has been in our program since, since the first day. And what we're talking about right now,..."
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"Oh. I think there isn't a word in Chinese that's, that's broad as that. It has, there, there's small words that sort of means..."
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"Go ahead. Right. I mean, the problem with the word empathy, and it's why it's so hard to translate, as Rebecca just mentioned, is..."
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"...chose to return to China because at that time I had Chinese language skills. I had a journalism experience. And so they're more optimistic..."
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"...and so uh as you may as you may know the Chinese language it's um not a phonological language it's a character -based language..."
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