主题：【原创】从政府到民众都是发展中国家 -- 谈炎

根据目前看到的她的回应，分明是计划明确的。最近在华盛顿邮报的文章看到了没有？

MY CHINA, MY TIBET

Caught in the Middle, Called a Traitor

By Grace Wang

Sunday, April 20, 2008; Page B01

I study languages -- Italian, French and German. And this summer -- now that it looks as though I won't be able to go home to China -- I'll take up Arabic. My goal is to master 10 languages, in addition to Chinese and English, by the time I'm 30.

我学过意大利语，法语和德语。而在这个我似乎无法再回到中国的夏天，我计划把这段时间用来学习阿拉伯语。我的目标是：在我30岁的时候，除了汉语和英语，再掌握10门语言。

I want to do this because I believe that language is the bridge to understanding. Take China and Tibet. If more Chinese learned the Tibetan language, and if Tibetans learned more about China, I'm convinced that our two peoples would understand one another better and we could overcome the current crisis between us peacefully. I feel that even more strongly after what happened here at Duke University a little more than a week ago.

我如此(饥渴地学习外语)，因为我相信语言是通向理解的桥梁。拿中国和西藏来说吧。如果更多的中国人学习藏语，而更多的西藏人学习中国的更多事情，我相信，我们这两个民族能够更深地彼此理解；而现在我们之间的危机，我们也能够和平地克服。

Trying to mediate between Chinese and pro-Tibetan campus protesters, I was caught in the middle and vilified and threatened by the Chinese. After the protest, the intimidation continued online, and I began receiving threatening phone calls. Then it got worse -- my parents in China were also threatened and forced to go into hiding. And I became persona non grata in my native country.

当我试图在中国的和支持西藏的校园游行者之间调停的时候，站在中间立场的我被中国人抓住、诽谤和恐吓。游行结束之后，这种恐吓仍然在网络上继续着，而且我开始收到恐吓电话。然后事情变得更加糟糕：我在中国的父母也被威胁，不得不躲藏起来。我在自己的祖国成为了“不受欢迎的人”。

It has been a frightening and unsettling experience. But I'm determined to speak out, even in the face of threats and abuse. If I stay silent, then the same thing will happen to someone else someday.

这是一段令人恐惧不安的经历。不过我决定，即使冒着威胁和辱骂，也把它说出来。如果我保持沉默，也许同样的事情将来什么时候会发生在另外一个人身上。

So here's my story.

下面是我的故事。

When I first arrived at Duke last August, I was afraid I wouldn't like it. It's in the small town of Durham, N.C., and I'm from Qingdao, a city of 4.3 million. But I eventually adjusted, and now I really love it. It's a diverse environment, with people from all over the world. Over Christmas break, all the American students went home, but that's too expensive for students from China. Since the dorms and the dining halls were closed, I was housed off-campus with four Tibetan classmates for more than three weeks.

当去年八月我第一次来到杜克大学的时候，我曾担心我不会喜欢这里。杜兰姆，杜克所在的地方，只是北卡州的一个小城, 而我来自有430万人口的大城市青岛。但是最终我适应了，而且现在我深深地爱上了这里。这里的人们来自世界各地，构成了一个复杂的环境。圣诞假期时，所有的美国学生都回家了，但是对中国学生来说回家的旅费太贵了。因为宿舍和食堂都关门了，我在校外租房子住了三个多星期，和四个西藏同学一起。

I had never really met or talked to a Tibetan before, even though we're from the same country. Every day we cooked together, ate together, played chess and cards. And of course, we talked about our different experiences growing up on opposite sides of the People's Republic of China. It was eye-opening for me.

虽然我们来自同一个国家，可是在此之前，我从来没有亲眼见过一个西藏人，更别提和他们交谈了。在这段时间里，我们每天一起做饭，一起吃饭，一起玩牌和下棋。当然，我们也讨论我们在中国的两端长大所经历的不同的生活。这种交流开阔了我的眼界。

I'd long been interested in Tibet and had a romantic vision of the Land of Snows, but I'd never been there. Now I learned that the Tibetans have a different way of seeing the world. My classmates were Buddhist and had a strong faith, which inspired me to reflect on my own views about the meaning of life. I had been a materialist, as all Chinese are taught to be, but now I could see that there's something more, that there's a spiritual side to life.

我一直认为雪域高原是个浪漫的地方，很久以来都对西藏怀有好奇和向往，不过我从来没有去过那里。现在我了解了西藏人怀有一种和我们不同的世界观。我的西藏同学们是信仰坚定的佛教徒，他们的信仰启发了我去思考自己生命的意义。就像所有的中国人被教育而成为的一样，我曾经是一个唯物主义者。不过我现在看到了更多的东西，看到了生命还有灵性上的一面。

We talked a lot in those three weeks, and of course we spoke in Chinese. The Tibetan language isn't the language of instruction in the better secondary schools there and is in danger of disappearing. Tibetans must be educated in Mandarin Chinese to succeed in our extremely capitalistic culture. This made me sad, and made me want to learn their language as they had learned mine.

在三周里我们谈了很多，当然我们交谈时都是用的中文。在好一些的中学里藏文都不是教学的语言，藏语现在已经是一种濒危的语言，面临着灭绝的危险。西藏人必须接受汉语教育来在我们的极端资本主义化的文化中胜出。这让我感到很难过，让我产生了愿望去学习他们的语言，既然他们已经学习了我们的。

I was reminded of all this on the evening of April 9. As I left the cafeteria planning to head to the library to study, I saw people holding Tibetan and Chinese flags facing each other in the middle of the quad. I hadn't heard anything about a protest, so I was curious and went to have a look. I knew people in both groups, and I went back and forth between them, asking their views. It seemed silly to me that they were standing apart, not talking to each other. I know that this is often due to a language barrier, as many Chinese here are scientists and engineers and aren't confident of their English.

4月9日傍晚发生的事情让我想起了这些回忆。当我走在从餐厅去图书馆学习的路上时，我看到了广场上举着西藏旗和中国国旗的对峙的人们。在此之前我没有听说有关游行的任何事，所以我感到好奇，想去看个究竟。在两群人之中都有我认识的人，我在人群之间穿行，询问我的朋友们的看法。两群人站得泾渭分明，互相完全不交谈，我感觉这样很愚蠢。根据我的经验，这种局面经常是由语言障碍造成的，因为很多在这里的中国人是科研人员和工程师，他们都对自己的英语能力没有自信。

• “在我30岁的时候，除了汉语和英语，再掌握10门语言”。