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发帖数: 334 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: zaosen (leng), 信区: Military
标 题: 今天波士顿游行现场长篇演讲。。。巨牛 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Nov 9 01:21:20 2013, 美东)
发信人: zaosen (leng), 信区: Texas
标 题: 今天波士顿游行现场长篇演讲。。。巨牛
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Nov 9 01:17:25 2013, 美东)
What a Journey
Chunyan Li, Ph.D.
11/8/2013
Dear all,
How long does it take us to get here today? One hour? Two hours? For me, it
is 20 years! 20 years ago I arrived at this land of the free, full of ideals
, perhaps from listening too much to radio Voice of America. 20 years later
my sons join me to protest against ABC's spreading of racial hatred and
violence. What is wrong with this picture?
I ask my teenage son whether we should just treat "killing Chinese" as a
joke. He said this demonstrates what the society and media had been feeding
our young kids. My heart sank. Is America moving forward or backward?
Now I ask again: How long does it take us to get here?
I don't know about you, but the last 20 days seem longer than my 20 years.
Those of us who stand here today must have been reading, writing, arguing,
and agonizing over confusing pieces of reports and commentaries. And we ask
ourselves, are we being unreasonable? Is our English that bad that we don't
know what an apology is?
On 10/28, the night of our first protest, Mr. Kimmel said, "today is a weird
day...I am sorry if I offended anyone." I ask ABC, who is the weird one?
Who truly apologizes if he doesn't even say sorry for what? Sorry to whom?
To the Chinese whose sense of tranquility is forever disturbed? To our kids
whom we try so hard to shield from pain and harm? To the schools that teach
kids the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King? ABC, do you call that an apology
?
In a letter to 80-20, ABC still claims it only entertains. Why is joking
about killing Chinese so entertaining? Is it because we are always so nice?
My friend's sweet 11-year old wants to write on his poster, "do not take
advantage of us." I first didn't understand, then found out he meant "don't
take advantage of us because we are nice." That broke my heart!!! ABC and Mr
. Kimmel, we hold you accountable for taking away our children's precious
sense of security. And we hold you accountable for sowing the seeds of
hatred in other children's minds.
On 10/29, Mr. Kimmel even resorted to the ridiculous notion of cultural
difference. I ask him, what cultural difference do you mean? A culture of
hard work, respect, harmony versus a culture of violence and racial hatred?
Then I admit there is an unbridgeable difference between Kimmel and us. We
know what's right, what's wrong. And we know what humor is too! Yet we have
no tolerance of your malicious joke, subsequent insult on air, then the
absurd reference to culture. This only proves Mr. Kimmel you are unfit to be
a public figure.
ABC, stop blaming cultural differences for your own mistakes! Except for
Native Americans, all are immigrants with unique traits. Yet we share the
basic value of human dignity. Stop magnifying the differences in skin colors
, or accents!
I ask a third time, how long does it take us to get here? Our friends
started telling us there is another written apology somewhere. Who in real
life is given so many third chances? Yet I ponder, are we asking too much? I
discovered to my dismay that in that written letter, Mr. Kimmel is still
hiding behind the 6-year old. Come on Mr. Kimmel, you think our anger is on
a 6-year old? Our anger is on your malicious question "Should we allow the
Chinese to live?" Our anger is on your subsequent arrogant ridicule. Our
rage is on ABC for not letting the public know the truth of these so called
apologies.
America is the home of the brave. ABC, show our kids you have the courage of
admitting wrong doing, show our kids you have the guts to take
responsibility by dismissing Mr. Kimmel. Show us you have the resolve to
institute procedures to prevent future incidences. ABC, do NOT hide behind a
6-year old! Show us what a major network can do to right its wrong!
Twenty years, twenty days. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Who
doesn't want to be happy? But without life, what is liberty? Without liberty,
what is happiness? Let's join hands in our pursuit of human dignity.
Teach kids to love, not to kill! | l**********n
发帖数: 5272 | 2 俺和Ｇｏｏｏｇ都写不出这么好的英文作品来，中文的也不行。
Ｇｏｏｏｇ要是不费心修房子买电脑，安下心来，也许能行。 | c*****y
发帖数: 5747 | 3 感动，
俺以一个老渔民眼光来看，
一篇好的演讲稿一定要通俗易懂，感人肺腑，能将大道理说的人人都懂，还得上档次！
无论下里巴人还是阳春白雪都能共鸣！
不能让人脚着是揍是激动，愤怒。
俺这个老粗都看懂了，而且很是感动！
高人啊！
Chunyan Li, Ph.D 俺的偶像！
有的人写洋文，俺其实不服气，不是说俺洋文咋地，
很多人揍是拽些生僻的词，忽悠人不偿命啊！
完全不知道，大道理往往是平白质朴，娓娓道来。
俺为啥爱看谷哥的洋文？
第一，能看懂
第二，易看懂 | G***G
发帖数: 16778 | 4 Thank you.
English is actually much more difficult to learn than Chinese
because it is a mixed language of various languages. It contains 250,000
words, compared to Chinese of 4000 words.
Another difficulty is that English is a music of melody, which contains
lots of intonation and linking. Different people can read an English artilce
with different intonation and tones. We read Chinese word by word. But we
cannot read English word by word, which is not a natural way. When we read
an English
article, it should sound like a running river, a casting rod, and
a reeled-in line.
Simply, one word -- smoothly.
All Chinese including me can pronounce most English words correctly, but
they cannot read an English article smoothly/fluently.
Learning English is a long journey. Our current and most important task is
to express accurately and clearly what we want to express, just like this
guy did at the following interview
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20131109/BUSINESS/311090086?n
Thank you again.
【在 c*****y 的大作中提到】
: 感动，
: 俺以一个老渔民眼光来看，
: 一篇好的演讲稿一定要通俗易懂，感人肺腑，能将大道理说的人人都懂，还得上档次！
: 无论下里巴人还是阳春白雪都能共鸣！
: 不能让人脚着是揍是激动，愤怒。
: 俺这个老粗都看懂了，而且很是感动！
: 高人啊！
: Chunyan Li, Ph.D 俺的偶像！
: 有的人写洋文，俺其实不服气，不是说俺洋文咋地，
: 很多人揍是拽些生僻的词，忽悠人不偿命啊！
| c*****y
发帖数: 5747 | 5 like a running river,
a casting rod,
and a reeled-in line.
谷哥
油美得麦逮！！！
诗一样的语言啊！
呵呵 |
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