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lose face

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Phraseologism: Lose face.

Meaning: Lose, pride, dignity. Behave inappropriately.

Origin: Even future Egyptian pharaohs were taught the art of self-control, control of emotions. Maybe that is why the authorities did not particularly turn their heads, they did not become outright tyrants, having come to this very power. When society was predominantly class-based, aristocrats were also taught etiquette, including what facial expressions were appropriate where and when. Diligent students, of course, were not all. Those who were lazy and did not want to learn the necessary lessons were said to be hopelessly losing face, that their reputation was not developing.

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I will lead the parade.

Meaning:

The words of a person who takes responsibility for the decision or leadership of any matter on himself (jokingly-iron.)

Origin:

From the novel The Golden Calf (1931) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). Words by Ostap Bender. The writer Viktor Ardov tells about the origin of this expression in the article "Wizards" (Memoirs of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov: Sat. M., 1963): "... The famous phrase "I will command the parade" has now become something of a saying, and we remember how Ilf snatched it from the serious context of official documents and had fun repeating this phrase for a long time. Then "I will command the parade" was written in The Golden Calf. Readers began to laugh. And these four words had to be excluded from official papers because they have become ridiculous literally for everyone ... "

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There is no need to tell once again how our individual experience affects perception: how we see the world around us depends on where we live, with whom we communicate, with whom we work, what we read, etc. People are more or less meticulous, inclined to introspection, are familiar with this from personal experience, in addition, psychologists have repeatedly studied what can be somewhat informally called cultural distortions of consciousness.

But when does this influence begin? Researchers from Northwestern University, along with Chinese colleagues, conducted the following experiment: 2-year-old children from the USA and China were shown a video with some kind of repetitive action - for example, they watched a girl petting a dog. Then the video changed a little: the girl either stroked the pillow instead of the dog, or she now didn’t stroke the same dog, but kissed it. That is, either a new object appeared, or the object remained the same, but the action changed.

Children paid attention to different things: two-year-old Chinese were more interested in a new action (that is, they looked more closely at a girl who suddenly started kissing a dog), and Americans were more interested in a new object (they looked at a video with a pillow).

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In other words, we can conclude with a high degree of certainty that the cultural characteristics of the environment already by the age of two begin to influence psychology - at least the psychology of perception. On the other hand, the difference in attention in both children's groups was not too great, from which we can conclude that "objects" and "actions" at this age have not yet completely diverged.

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