世界節(jié)假日博覽 第86期:誠信日

Be honest. That's all you have to do on Honesty Day. It would be great if we were all honest every day of the year, but it's good that there's an official day to encourage honesty. That day is April 30th. The man who started Honesty Day, M. Hirsh Goldberg, chose the last day of April because the first day is April Fools' Day, which celebrates falsehoods, pranks and lies. Wikipedia.com says that on Honesty Day: “Anyone participating may ask any question they choose and the opposing person should give a truthful and straightforward answer. This is implying that the person who is answering the question has knowledge of Honesty Day.“ Perhaps some questions, like opinions, are best not answered honestly.
在誠信日，你要做的就是赤誠相待。如果我們每天都能做到誠心誠意，那世界將無比美好，但對于設(shè)立官方“誠信日”來說，它能夠激勵我們變得更加誠實。每年的4月30日為“誠信日”。發(fā)起人為赫什·戈爾德貝爾格，選擇最后一天的原因是要與4月1日愚人節(jié)相映成趣，愚人節(jié)宣揚的是謊言和惡作劇。根據(jù)維基百科對“誠信日”的描述，參與者可以隨便問問題，對方要直言不諱進行回答。這說明回答者了解“誠信日”。像意見建議這樣的問題最不容易開誠布公。


M. Hirsh Goldberg was a former press secretary of the U.S. state of Maryland. He wrote a book called The Book of Lies: Fibs, Tales, Schemes, Scams, Fakes, and Frauds That Have Changed The Course of History and Affect Our Daily Lives. Mr Goldberg said in his book that the average person lies about 200 times a day. According to a poll conducted by London's Science Museum, a normal lie for a man is, “I didn't drink that much“ and for a woman it is, “Nothing's wrong, I'm fine“. A survey from the Gallup market research group found that nurses are the most honest people, while sales people and politicians are the biggest liars. Every Honesty Day, Mr Goldberg hands out awards to honest companies and organizations.
赫什·戈爾德貝爾格曾擔(dān)任馬里蘭州新聞秘書。他曾著有一本名叫“謊言、傳說、陰謀、騙局、虛假以及詐騙改變歷史軌跡和日常生活”的圖書。他在書中寫到，人們平均每天撒謊次數(shù)為200次。根據(jù)倫敦科學(xué)博物館的一項民調(diào)顯示，男性平常會說，“我喝不了這么多”，女性是“一切正常，我很好。”根據(jù)市場調(diào)查組織“蓋洛普”的一項研究表明，護士最為誠信，銷售人員和政治家的鬼話最多。在每年“誠信日”，戈爾德貝爾格先生都會為誠信公司，誠信組織頒獎。