【TED演讲】我不是你眼中的亚洲刻板印象
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|---|---|---|
| 0:03 | My name is Kanwin, and I play both the piano and the violin. | 我叫坎文 我弹钢琴和小提琴 |
| 0:09 | I aspire to someday be a doctor, and my favorite subject is calculus. | 我渴望有一天能成为一名医生 我最喜欢的是微积分 |
| 0:15 | My mom and dad are tiger parents who won't let me go to sleepovers, | 我爸妈是老虎父母 他们不让我去过夜 |
| 0:19 | but they make up for it by serving my favorite meal every single day, rice. | 但他们通过每天提供我最喜欢的饭来弥补它,米饭. |
| 0:26 | And I'm a really bad driver. | 我是一个非常糟糕的司机。 |
| 0:31 | So my question for you now is, how long did it take you to figure out I was joking? | 所以我现在要问你的是 你花了多久才知道我在开玩笑? |
| 0:38 | As you've probably guessed, today I'm going to talk about race, | 你可能猜到了 今天我要谈种族问题 |
| 0:41 | and I'll start off by sharing with you my story of growing up Asian American. | 我首先要和你们分享 我成长为亚裔美国人的故事 |
| 0:47 | I moved to the United States when I was two years old, | 我两岁时搬到美国 |
| 0:50 | so almost my entire life has been a blend of two cultures. | 所以我的一生几乎都是两种文化的融合 |
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| 1 | My name is Kanwin, and I play both the piano and the violin. | 我叫坎文 我弹钢琴和小提琴 |
| 2 | I aspire to someday be a doctor, and my favorite subject is calculus. | 我渴望有一天能成为一名医生 我最喜欢的是微积分 |
| 3 | My mom and dad are tiger parents who won't let me go to sleepovers, | 我爸妈是老虎父母 他们不让我去过夜 |
| 4 | but they make up for it by serving my favorite meal every single day, rice. | 但他们通过每天提供我最喜欢的饭来弥补它,米饭. |
| 5 | And I'm a really bad driver. | 我是一个非常糟糕的司机。 |
| 6 | So my question for you now is, how long did it take you to figure out I was joking? | 所以我现在要问你的是 你花了多久才知道我在开玩笑? |
| 7 | As you've probably guessed, today I'm going to talk about race, | 你可能猜到了 今天我要谈种族问题 |
| 8 | and I'll start off by sharing with you my story of growing up Asian American. | 我首先要和你们分享 我成长为亚裔美国人的故事 |
| 9 | I moved to the United States when I was two years old, | 我两岁时搬到美国 |
| 10 | so almost my entire life has been a blend of two cultures. | 所以我的一生几乎都是两种文化的融合 |
| 11 | I eat pasta with chopsticks, am addicted to orange chicken, | 我用筷子吃面条,对橘子鸡上瘾 |
| 12 | and my childhood hero was Yao Ming. | 和我的童年英雄是姚明. |
| 13 | But having grown up in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Idaho, | 但在北达科他州、南达科他州和爱达荷州长大 |
| 14 | all states with incredibly little racial diversity, | 所有种族多样性极小的国家, |
| 15 | it was difficult to reconcile my so-called exotic Chinese heritage | 很难调和我所谓的异国传统 |
| 16 | with my mainstream American self. | 与我的主流美国人自己。 |
| 17 | Used to being the only Asian in the room, | 以前是房间里唯一的亚洲人 |
| 18 | I was self-conscious that the first thing people noticed about me was that I wasn't white. | 我自觉,人们首先注意到的是我并不是白人. |
| 19 | And as a child, I quickly began to realize that I had two options in front of me. | 小时候,我很快意识到我面前有两个选择。 |
| 20 | Conform to the stereotype that was expected of me, | 遵守我期待的定型 |
| 21 | or conform to the whiteness that surrounded me. | 或者遵守我身边的白色 |
| 22 | There was no in-between. | 之间没有 |
| 23 | For me, this meant that I always felt self-conscious about being good at math | 对我来说,这意味着我总觉得自己很擅长数学 |
| 24 | because people would just say it was because I was Asian | 因为人们只会说是因为我是亚洲人 |
| 25 | and not because I actually worked hard. | 而不是因为我实际上努力工作。 |
| 26 | It meant that whenever a boy asked me out, | 这意味着,每当一个男孩约我出去, |
| 27 | it was because he had the yellow fever and not because he actually liked me. | 是因为他得了黄热病 而不是因为他真的喜欢我 |
| 28 | It meant that for the longest time, my identity had formed around the fact that I was different, | 意思是,在最长的时间里,我的身份 围绕着一个事实,我是不同的, |
| 29 | and I thought that being Asian was the only special thing about me. | 我以为做亚洲人是我唯一的特殊之处 |
| 30 | These effects were emphasized by the places where I lived. | 我住的地方强调了这些影响。 |
| 31 | Don't get me wrong, only a small percentage of people were actually racist, | 别误会,只有一小部分人是种族主义者 |
| 32 | or even borderline racist, but the vast majority were just a little bit clueless. | 甚至是边际的种族主义, 但绝大多数只是一点点 无知。 |
| 33 | Now, I know you're probably thinking, what's the difference? | 我知道你在想,有什么区别? |
| 34 | Well, here's an example. | 举个例子 |
| 35 | Not racist can sound like I'm white and you're not. | 不是种族主义者听起来像我是白人,你不是。 |
| 36 | Racist can sound like I'm white, you're not, and that makes me better than you. | 种族主义者听起来像我是白人,你不是, 这让我比你更好。 |
| 37 | But clueless sounds like I'm white, you're not, and I don't know how to deal with that. | 但听上去我是白人,你不是, 我不知道怎么处理。 |
| 38 | Now, I don't doubt for a second that these clueless people are still nice individuals with great intentions, | 现在,我毫不怀疑 这些无稽之谈的人 仍然是善良的个人 有伟大的意图, |
| 39 | but they do ask some questions that become pretty annoying after a while. | 但是他们确实问了一些 过一段时间后变得很烦人的问题 |
| 40 | Here are a few examples. | 以下是几个例子。 |
| 41 | You're Chinese? | 你是中国人? |
| 42 | Oh my goodness, I have a Chinese friend. | 哦,我的上帝,我有一个中国朋友。 |
| 43 | Do you know him? | 你认识他吗? |
| 44 | No. | 没有 |
| 45 | I don't know him. | 我不认识他 |
| 46 | Because contrary to your unrealistic expectations, | 因为与你不切实际的期望相反 |
| 47 | I do not know every single one of the 1.35 billion Chinese people who live on planet Earth. | 我不认识地球上13.5亿中国人中的每一个人。 |
| 48 | People also tend to ask, where does your name come from? | 人们也常常问,你的名字从哪里来的? |
| 49 | And I really don't know how to answer that, so I usually just stick with the truth. | 我真的不知道如何回答, 所以我通常只坚持真理。 |
| 50 | My parents gave it to me. | 我父母给我的 |
| 51 | Where does your name come from? | 汝名甚么处来. |
| 52 | Don't even get me started on how many times people have confused me with a different Asian person. | 不要让我开始 多少次人们 把我与不同的亚洲人混淆。 |
| 53 | One time someone came up to me and said, Angie, I love your artwork, and I was super confused, | 有一次有人来找我说,安吉,我爱你的艺术品,我非常困惑 |
| 54 | so I just thanked them and walked away. | 所以我就谢了他们 然后走了 |
| 55 | But out of all of the questions, my favorite one is still the classic, where are you from? | 但是在所有的问题中,我最喜欢的仍然是经典,你来自哪里? |
| 56 | Because I've lived in quite a few places, so this is how the conversation usually goes. | 因为我住过很多地方 所以谈话通常是这样进行的 |
| 57 | Where are you from? | 你从哪里来? |
| 58 | Oh, I'm from Boise, Idaho. | 哦,我来自爱达荷州的波伊丝。 |
| 59 | I see, but where are you really from? | 我明白了,但你从哪里来的? |
| 60 | I mean, I lived in South Dakota for a while. | 我的意思是,我住在南达科他州一段时间。 |
| 61 | Okay, what about before that? | 好吧,那之前怎么办? |
| 62 | I mean, I lived in North Dakota. | 我住在北达科他州 |
| 63 | Okay, I'm just going to cut straight to the chase here. | 好吧,我只想直截了当地说 |
| 64 | I guess what I'm saying is, have you ever lived anywhere far away from here | 我想说的是 你住过远离这里的地方吗? |
| 65 | where people talk a little differently? | 那里的人说话有点不一样? |
| 66 | Oh, I know what you're talking about. | 哦,我知道你在说什么。 |
| 67 | Yes, I have. | 是的,我见过。 |
| 68 | I used to live in Texas. | 我以前住在德克萨斯州 |
| 69 | By then, they usually have just given up and wonder to themselves why I'm not one of the cool Asians | 到那时,他们通常只是放弃 并想知道为什么我不是 很酷的亚洲人之一 |
| 70 | like Jeremy Lin or Jackie Chan, or they skip the needless banter | 像杰里米・林或成龙, 或他们跳过无谓的节奏 |
| 71 | and go straight for the, where is your family from? | 直奔你的家从哪里来? |
| 72 | So just an FYI for all of you out there, that is a safest strategy. | 给你们介绍一下 这是最安全的策略 |
| 73 | But as amusing as these interactions were, oftentimes they made me want to reject my own culture | 但是,虽然这些互动是有趣的, 他们经常让我想拒绝自己的文化 |
| 74 | because I thought it helped me conform. | 因为我觉得这能帮助我适应 |
| 75 | I distanced myself from the Asian stereotype as much as possible | 我尽量远离亚洲的陈规定型 |
| 76 | by degrading my own race and pretending I hated math. | 贬低自己的种族 假装我讨厌数学 |
| 77 | And the worst part was, it worked. | 最糟糕的是,它起作用了。 |
| 78 | The more I rejected my Chinese identity, the more popular I became. | 我越是拒绝我的中国身份,我就越受到欢迎. |
| 79 | My peers liked me more because I was more similar to them. | 我的同龄人更喜欢我 因为我和他们更相似 |
| 80 | I became more confident because I knew I was more similar to them. | 我越发自信 因为我知道我和他们更相似 |
| 81 | But as I became more more Americanized, I also began to lose bits and pieces of myself, | 但随着我越来越美国化, 我也开始失去自己, |
| 82 | parts of me that I could never get back. | 我的一部分,我永远无法回来。 |
| 83 | And no matter how much I tried to pretend that I was the same as my American classmates, | 不管我有多想假装自己和我的美国同学一样 |
| 84 | I wasn't. | 我没有。 |
| 85 | Because for people who have lived in the places where I lived, | 因为对那些住在我住的地方的人来说 |
| 86 | white is the norm, and for me, white became the norm too. | 白色是常态 对我来说 白色也是常态 |
| 87 | For my 14th birthday, I received the video game Sims 3, | 14岁生日时,我收到了电子游戏Sims 3, |
| 88 | which lets you create your own characters and control their lives. | 让你创造自己的角色 控制他们的生活 |
| 89 | My 14-year-old self created the perfect little mainstream family, | 我14岁的自己创造了 一个完美的小主流家庭, |
| 90 | complete with a huge mansion and enormous swimming pool. | 有个豪宅和游泳池 |
| 91 | I binge played the game for about three months and put it away | 我玩了大约三个月 把它收起来 |
| 92 | and never really thought about it again until a few weeks ago when I came to a sudden realization. | 直到几周前,我突然意识到这一点。 |
| 93 | The family that I had custom designed was white. | 我习惯设计的家庭是白色的。 |
| 94 | The character that I had designed for myself was white. | 我为自己设计的角色是白色的。 |
| 95 | Everyone I had designed was white. | 我设计的每个人都是白人 |
| 96 | And the worst part was, this was by no means a conscious decision that I had made. | 最糟糕的是,这绝不是我作出的有意识的决定。 |
| 97 | Never once did I think to myself that I could actually make the characters look like me. | 我从来没有想过 我可以让角色看起来像我 |
| 98 | Without even thinking, white had become my norm too. | 没有思考,白色也成了我的规范。 |
| 99 | The truth is, Asian Americans play a strange role in the American melting pot. | 事实是,亚裔美国人在美国熔炉中扮演着奇怪的角色. |
| 100 | We are the model minority. | 我们是模范少数民族。 |
| 101 | Society uses our success to pit us against other people of color as justification that racism doesn't exist. | 社会利用我们的成功 把我们和其他有色人种 当作种族主义不存在的理由 |
| 102 | But what does that mean for us Asian Americans? | 那对我们亚裔美国人意味着什么? |
| 103 | It means that we aren't quite similar enough to be accepted, but we aren't different enough to be loathed. | 意思是,我们并不是很相似,不能被接受,但我们并不不同,不能被厌恶. |
| 104 | We are in a perpetually gray zone and society isn't quite sure what to do with us. | 我们处在一个永久的灰色地带,社会并不完全确定该怎么对待我们. |
| 105 | So they group us by the color of our skin. | 所以他们用我们皮肤的颜色来划分我们 |
| 106 | They tell us that we must reject our own heritages so we can fit in with the crowd. | 他们告诉我们,我们必须拒绝我们自己的遗产,这样我们才能适应人群。 |
| 107 | They tell us that our foreignness is the only identifying characteristic of us. | 他们告诉我们,我们的异国情调是我们唯一的特征。 |
| 108 | They strip away our identities one by one until we are foreign but not quite foreign, | 他们逐个夺走我们的身份 直到我们是外国的,但不是相当外国的, |
| 109 | American but not quite American, individual but only when there are no other people from our native country around. | 美国人,但不是相当美国人, 个人,但只有在没有其他人 来自我们的祖国周围。 |
| 110 | I wish that I had always had the courage to speak out about these issues. | 我希望我始终有勇气谈论这些问题。 |
| 111 | But coming from one culture that avoids confrontation and another that is divided over race, | 但来自一种避免对抗的文化 另一种因种族而分裂的文化 |
| 112 | how do I overcome the pressure to keep the peace while also staying true to who I am? | 我如何克服维持和平的压力,同时忠于我是谁? |
| 113 | And as much as I hate to admit it, oftentimes I don't speak out because if I do, | 虽然我不愿承认 但经常不说出来 因为如果我承认 |
| 114 | it's at the risk of being told that I'm too sensitive or that I get offended too easily or that it's just not worth it. | 我太敏感了,或者我太容易得罪了 或者这不值得 |
| 115 | But at what point are people willing to admit that, yes, race issues are controversial, | 但人们什么时候愿意承认, 是的,种族问题是有争议的, |
| 116 | but that's precisely the reason why we need to talk about them. | 但这正是为什么 我们需要谈论他们。 |
| 117 | I just turned 18 and there are still so many things that I don't know about the world. | 我刚刚满18岁 还有很多事情我不知道 |
| 118 | But what I do know is that it's hard to admit that you might be part of the problem, | 但我知道这很难承认 你可能会是问题的一部分 |
| 119 | that all of us might be part of the problem. | 我们都可能是问题的一部分 |
| 120 | So instead of giving you a step-by-step guide on how to not be racist towards Asians, | 所以,与其给你一个 如何不种族主义亚洲人, |
| 121 | I will let you decide what to take from this talk. | 我让你决定从这个演讲中拿什么 |
| 122 | All I can do is share my story. | 我所能做的就是分享我的故事 |
| 123 | My name is Kanwin, my favorite color is purple, and I play the piano but not so much the violin. | 我叫坎温 我最喜欢的颜色是紫色 我弹钢琴,但小提琴不太喜欢 |
| 124 | I have two incredibly supportive, hardworking parents and one very awesome 10-year-old brother. | 我有两个令人难以置信的支持,勤奋的父母 和一个非常棒的10岁哥哥。 |
| 125 | I love calculus more than anything, despise eating rice, and I'm a horrendous driver. | 我爱微积分胜于一切,鄙视吃米,我是一个可怕的司机. |
| 126 | But most of all, I am proud of who I am. | 但最重要的是,我为我是谁感到自豪。 |
| 127 | A little bit American, a little bit Chinese, and a whole lot of both. | 有点美国人,有点中国人,而且两者都有. |
| 128 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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