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あなたは猫的？ |
Are You Like a Cat? Or Like a Dog? |
| 人の性格をさして、犬的、猫的という言い方がある。忠実、誠実、協調的、献身的なのが犬的で、気まぐれ、わがまま、協調性欠如、自分勝手なのが猫的といわれる。言い方を変えて卑屈なほど媚びるのが犬的、自我が強く自由奔放なのが猫的とする言い方もある。 | Human personalities are often likened to those of dogs or cats. A person who is dog-like is said to be loyal, faithful, cooperative, and devoted, while a person who is cat-like is said to be capricious, willful, uncooperative, and selfish. In other words, being servilely obsequious is considered dog-like, and being egoistic and freewheeling is considered cat-like. |
| どちらにしても、こういう分け方をした人間が犬的性格であることだけは確かである。ほめようとけなそうと、犬的性格の自己弁護か悲哀、猫的性格へのやっかみか羨望だからだ。それになによりも、犬的性格と猫的性格に分けることができるということ自体が、犬的性格のゆえんなのだ。気まぐれな性格は、それが気まぐれではないと思うところに生まれるのであり、協調性の欠如は協調性のなんたるかを知らないところに生まれるのである。だから、真の猫的性格は、自分を他と比較し考察することなど不可能だ。たとえ、考察結果を延々と講義されても理解できないはずである。犬的性格、猫的性格のニュアンスの理解できる人間は、程度の差こそあれ犬的性格の持ち主だ。そして、みんな犬的性格のはずだ。人間はもともと犬的性格でしかありえないのだ。 | At any rate, there is no doubt that a person who categorizes personality types in this way has a dog-like personality. This is because those descriptions of personality types, regardless of praises or slurs, are based on the self-justification or pathos of a dog-like person, or even jealousy or envy at a cat-like personality. And on top of that, the very fact that someone can distinguish a dog-like personality from a cat-like personality itself indicates a dog-like personality. A capricious personality lies in not thinking of oneself as capricious, and an uncooperative personality is shaped when people have no idea what cooperativeness even means. So there is no way that people with a truly cat-like personality can compare themselves with others and think carefully about the differences in personality. Even if they were endlessly lectured on the differences, they would most likely fail to grasp the point. A person who can understand the nuances of a dog-like personality and a cat-like personality has, to some degree or another, a dog-like personality. And every one of us has a dog-like personality. By nature, humans can have only a dog-like personality. |
| 『うちの猫にかぎって 誰も知らないキャットおもしろ生態学』 加藤由子著 より抜粋 |
Excerpt from "It'd Never Happen to My Cat— Intriguing Secrets of Cat Ecology" Yoshiko Kato |
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