1、Unit 10 Ethics and Values 东北大学大学英语Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Reading Topic Preview Text C Pre-reading Questions Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Dear Amanda:My favorite shampoo had the wrong price on it.It was half the usual price,so I bought ten bottles.Do you think thats OK?Helena Dear Amanda:I rented fiv
2、e DVDs this morning at my local video store.The clerk only charged me the rental fee f or three.I didnt say anything.Should I tell the clerk when I return the DVDs?Samantha Topic Preview Read the letters to the advice columnist.What advice do you think the columnist may give?Do you have any ethical
3、questions?Write to Amanda.Dear Amanda:I reserved a compact rental car,but when I went to pick it up,they gave me a luxury car for the same price.Should I tell them that they made a mistake?Paul Dear Amanda:Yesterday I saw someone get on my hotels free airport shuttle bus.I know she wasnt staying at
4、the hotel.Should I complain to the hotel manager?George Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Pre-reading Questions 1.How do you like the idea that parents go to court to sue their children for emotional support？2.Will you send your parents to a nursing home when they are getting old b and weak?3.What do you th
5、ink of filial piety?Support your views with example.Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Text C Text Understanding the structure of the Text Comprehension Questions Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Text C Ethical Tradition Meets Economics in an Aging China The sound of Buddhist chants wafts through an annex of the So
6、ngtang Hospice,the first private facility of its kind in Beijing.A group of lay Buddhists is trying to ease the passage of a recently departed soul of a patient.When I first visited this hospice nearly two decades ago,the average patient stayed just 18 days.Now,it caters to people who are not termin
7、ally ill,and the average stay is about five years.Ethics and Values UNIT 10 China is home to the worlds largest aging population,and its attitudes and treatment of the elderly are changing.In the past,there was little mention in China of the rights of the elderly.Instead,ancestor worship and Confuci
8、an respect for the elderly were the norm.But since this summer,Chinese law has required adult offspring to visit their elderly parents and look after their emotional needs.A number of cases of parents suing their deadbeat kids for emotional support have gotten heavy play in the Chinese media.Ethics
9、and Values UNIT 10 Upstairs at the hospice,Huang Xuebing is visiting his mother,who has now been here for around five years and whose health is declining.Huang visits her here every day,but he still blames himself for not taking better care of her.“In China,when you take care of a parent,you take ca
10、re of him or her in your home,and you take care of them until they die,”Huang says.“We call this filial piety.If you put a parent in an old age home,many people consider this unfilial.But we have no choice.”Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Huang says he tried to take care of his mother at home,but the care
11、givers he hired all quit.Huangs family comes from northeast China,and his mothers medical insurance will only pay for her treatment in her home province.So Huang uses all of his mothers pension,plus contributions from his siblings,to pay for his mothers stay at the hospice.Huang admits he is struggl
12、ing to reconcile his obligations to his mother versus those to society.“I come here every day,but I have to take time out from work for it,”he says.“When I come here to sit by her bedside and look after her every day that means that I havent contributed to society in any other way,right?”Ethics and
13、Values UNIT 10 The challenge of caring for Chinas elderly is evident in the demographics.As of last year,China had about eight working-age people for every senior citizen.By mid-century,there will be only two people supporting each senior.This is because people are living longer,and they are having
14、fewer children,in part because of Chinas one-child policy.In another room of the hospice,I met a cheerful-looking 94-year-old retired teacher named Lian Yicheng.She says her daughter visits her just twice a month,and that is just fine by her.Ethics and Values UNIT 10 “If theres nothing wrong,I dont
15、ask her to come here,”she says.“Its a three-hour round trip for her,so a visit takes up half her day.I tell her Im fine,Im alive and kicking,so whats there to come and see?”Lian believes that how each person looks after his or her parents is a matter of individual character.She doesnt think it is so
16、mething you can regulate by law.“Its something you have to cultivate gradually.You cant force it,”she says.“My daughter has her work and her own activities.She cant live in the past,according to the feudal thinking and Confucian ways of my generation.”Ethics and Values UNIT 10 Confucianism held filial piety to be the most important ethical principle in human relations and the model for other relations,such as those between husband and wife,ruler and minister,etc.Confucian respect for the elderly
