英語検定ライティング準１級（第117回）

制服「区別と差別は分かりにくいという話」

We hear a beautiful slogan without something vital.
We mustn’t be taken advantage of by fake stories.

ある国では病院の中で医療スタッフと補助スタッフの着衣の色が違うそうだ。日本の病院のスタッフはみんな白の制服を着るのでそれは特に意識した経験はない。
In a certain nation, a medical staff’s wear color differs from a supportive staff’s one, an online article says.
We are unlikely to question such a difference because almost all staffs in the hospital wear the same color uniform, which might be a traditional way in Japan.
Also I have no experience to be confused when I visited the Japanese hospital in our society.

医療スタッフは青の制服をきる。補助スタッフは緑の制服を着る。すると患者にも職員にも評判は良かったらしい。そんなに役割が違うのかなと思ってしまう。
In that nation, a medical staff puts on a blue uniform, but a supportive staff puts on a green one, which could gain a positive reputation both from patients and staffs.
A patient could be willing to ask something of a supportive staff in green even when they hesitate to ask a medical staff in blueca sensitive question.
The color of uniform makes a difference in such a case.

病院は清掃スタッフの役割が大きい。なぜなら清潔であることが最優先事だから。ホコリだらけの病院なんてイメージするのはかなり難しいし、クレームが来る。
In the hospital, a cleaning staff could play a vital role because the top priority there must be clean and keep a complete sanitation, we assume.
It is almost impossible for us to image the hospital with a large amount of dirty substances, which might collect numerous kinds of claims.

だが他の国の病院では受けいられなかったとのこと。優劣が明確になると、差別感情がどうしても現れる。便利さだけを追求すると弊害は出てくるものだ。　
But there were several nations where those involved refused such changes.
It is because a kind of discriminative feeling inevitably arises when we could see both the superiors and the inferiors in front of our eyes.
We could generate something disadvantageous and weak points when we emphasize only the convenience.

役場とか学校とかはそういうのはない方が良い。差別を撲滅するのが基本理念だから。場所や状況によって、できるかどうか判断する環境が望ましいと思う。
We shouldn’t set such a difference in the community centers and the schools because such facilities should have the fundamental concept that discrimination must be abandoned immediately.
Whether this kind of change could come true or not depends on the place and the occasion, which requires our appropriate judgement.

Distinctions are vital, but discrimination must vanish.
TPO determines which matters among them.