英語検定ライティング準１級（第69回）

タイトル「右利きは絶対に数が多いのか？」

No, this suggestion isn’t supportable.
One reason makes the opinion unacceptable.

私たちの周囲にいる人はほとんど右利きだ。理由は人間の進化の歴史にある。右利き用の道具であれば共有して、誰でも使うことができる。集団でサバイバルする基本だった。
Almost all people around us are left-handed, the reason of which lies in humans’ history.
Right-handed people could share the same tool with each other, in other words, left-handed people found it difficult to use the tool for right-handed.
In order to survive their critical situations, people needed to cooperate with the same tools for right-handed.

調査によると、全体的に１割くらいしか左利きはいないとのこと。一昔前までは、文字を書く時に左利きだったこどもが、右利きに矯正されたとのこと。無理矢理にだ。
Several surveys say that there are only 10 percent of left-handed people in our society, which we find difficult to believe because we watch many capable left-handed pitchers in the professional baseball world.
A several decades ago, left-handed children were forced to use right hand against their will when they were writing letters in front of their parents.

とある文化圏では、右手は神聖なもので、左手は汚いものを処理するものという明確な区別があるらしい。極めて非科学的な話で作り話としか言いようがない。
In a certain culture, there is said to be clear and obvious difference between a right hand and a left one : the former is holly or sacred, while the latter is used when they treat something dirty or unnecessary.
This explanation sounds extremely unscientific, and we cannot help considering this story as a myth.

ところでスポーツの世界では、左利きが有利とされる。ボクシングのような個人競技である。卓球も左利きの選手を相手にすると、対処が難しいと聞いたことがある。
By the way, left-handed players have various kinds of advantages in the sports’ world, which is true of personal competition like a boxing or a karate.
We have often heard that a right-handed table tennis player finds it troublesome and burdensome to fight with a left-handed opponent.

野球の世界は特異かもしれない。投げるのは右手だが、打つのは左打席という選手が少なくない。あるチームは右打者が少なくて、逆に希少価値があると聞く。
In the professional baseball world, things described above aren’t the case because not a few players use their right hand when they are a pitcher, while they are in the left-handed batters’ box when they hit a ball.
In addition, the number of right-handed batters is small in a certain team, so they are highly evaluated.

右利きと左利きの区別は社会問題ではない。たまには深刻なことを避けてみようと思ったのだが、結論の部分が書きにくい。つまりどうでも良いということなのだろう。
Whether someone is right-handed or left-handed doesn’t matter in our society because this theme isn’t one of the serious social issues at all.
Someone wanted me to mention the subject except a social problem, but it is extremely difficult because the conclusion doesn’t make a difference.
After all, we cannot be satisfied with something trivial.

This reason makes the question titled above unfavorable.