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发帖数: 6601 | 1 维为道来：为什么有些中国人比美国人还迷恋美国梦？
http://www.theglobalist.com/the-american-dream-is-alive-and-wellin-china/
The American Dream Is Alive and Well…In China
Could it be that the Chinese now believe more in the American Dream than do
Americans themselves?
By Stephan Richter, November 23, 2010
Takeaways
Stop talking so disparagingly about the United States, we are told. We just
can't believe it. You are destroying our dream for the future.
If U.S. immigration policies allowed it, 97% of the Chinese people would
probably want to move to the United States, our hosts said.
The fact that paralysis may lie ahead for Americans was definitely not what
the Chinese had expected to hear, or more to the point, wanted to hear.
On a recent media trip to China, perhaps the most amazing finding was that
the American Dream is alive and well — 7,481 miles (12,039 kilometers) away
from the U.S. capital.
In many of our exchanges with Chinese interlocutors, they took great umbrage
at hearing news from our group of Washington-based journalists and thinkers
about how stuck in a rut American politics had become and how U.S. society
was riven with serious conflicts.
The fact that paralysis may lie ahead for Americans was definitely not what
the Chinese had expected to hear, or more to the point, wanted to hear.
Their questions to us were along somewhat predictable lines, but all based
on the assumption of a self-confident America — and a confident and
coherent American society.
Will the economic crisis be over soon? Will Americans keep buying our
products? Will you embrace more environment-friendly policies? Will there be
a race for supremacy in the green economy of the future? Can we cooperate
on carbon-reducing technologies?
Those were the types of questions, on the level of grand policy with
practical applications, that we found ourselves confronted with time after
time. And they were always presented with cheery optimism about future
collaboration opportunities, not as sinister schemes to scope out one's
opponent in a zero-sum game.
Hearing about how the U.S. political process was effectively treading water,
the Chinese were especially remarkable in their wholehearted display of an
American-style can-do attitude. Yes, there are problems, big ones, but aren
’t we humans here to get them solved? What do you mean that political
reservations are standing in the way? Why would anyone do that?
The environment and climate change is not a matter of ideological beliefs
and preferences. So we were told by virtually everybody in this presumably
communist nation. This field presents serious engineering problems to be
resolved by human ingenuity.
What do you mean climate change is a politically contentious matter among
Americans, our interlocutors asked. Not all is well in the United States?
Yes, we know the country’s citizens are currently faced with severe
economic problems, including a mountain of unemployment. But why is it so
hard to counteract? And what do you mean, we may see an end to the American
spirit of optimism?
Why would political leaders fight climate change categorically, we were
asked. Why not simply tackle an issue that is so clearly in front of us? You
mean, the United States may no longer be the vanguard of modernity?
Americans may be losing their legendary self-confidence?
That’s terrible news for all of us here in China, they said. After all,
virtually all of us in this interconnected age dream the American Dream.
Wherever our aspirations may take us, but we’re all hoping to be like
Americans one day.
In fact, we heard that if U.S. immigration policies allowed it, 97% of the
Chinese people would probably want to move to the United States.
So stop talking so disparagingly about the United States, we are told. We
just can’t believe it. You are destroying our dream for the future.
Believing in America’s great future as a signal for all of the rest of us
is what has kept us Chinese going through many a dark day.
Yes, we are proud how far China has come — and in such a relatively short
time. But still, they said, our ultimate goal is to be like the Americans,
with their big houses, ample space and large cars. That’s what we dream
about. Don’t destroy that vision of our future.
Chinese idiosyncrasies aside, what is so striking is that, from a European
perspective, the thrust of American optimism in the 20th century was a
combination of can-do spirit, planning and the law of numbers. Can-do in
terms of orientation toward problem-solving, planning because the U.S.
approach was to run massive quantitative analyses in the field of social
studies — and the law of numbers because anything the United States engaged
in was just so much bigger than what the Europeans were capable of as
individual nations.
This treble root of American optimism — in foreign eyes — has now moved on
to China. With a leadership composed of engineers, the can-do orientation
is only natural. If the U.S. social sciences — and from that vantage point,
human progress — were quantitatively driven, the Chinese are taking this
to another level.
In terms of the law of numbers, the Chinese are making the Americans feel
awed the same way the Europeans were once awed by the Americans. | w********u
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发帖数: 5281 | 3 美国有一些我们可以利用的资源，但这并不代表我们认同美国价值观
【在 w********u 的大作中提到】
: 为什么有些中国人每天骂着美国，死都不离开美国？
| w********u
发帖数: 3048 | 4 [在 rateofreturn (回报率) 的大作中提到：]
:美国有一些我们可以利用的资源，但这并不代表我们认同美国价值观
:☆ 发自 iPhone 买买提 1.24.07
那你给美国政府纳税送钱，美国政府拿你的税对付中国人，算不算认同美国价值观呢？
算不算汉奸呢？既然吃里扒外，那被关进集中营，回国进夹边沟那天就别哭，因为你两
边不是人
就和在中国大陆赚钱却不认同中国大陆价值观港台商人一样，枪毙了活该
做贼还出卖黑老大，就要有被所有人揍死的准备 | m*****u
发帖数: 15526 | 5 美国梦那是5，60年代美帝一个产业蓝领工人上班就可以养活一家四口外带车房的时代
。这个时代是美帝一家独大，世界其他国家经济还没发展起来的时候。这个时代早过去
了。就是那个时代的标志三大汽车公司和底特律，都已经过气了 |
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