G2讓我傷感
今天一大早，打開幾乎所有的美國各大新聞或報紙網站，你都可以顯著位置看到類似這樣的醒目標題：China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy，當然，還有無數網民的comments。
作為一個生活在海外的中國人，雖然對中國成為G2毫不奇怪，但是，當我看到這真正出現在頭版，並被美國人所熱議的時候，心中仍然不免感慨萬千。而在這些感慨之中，最讓我唏噓的，是我隻能作為一個自豪的旁觀者，在海外默默地注視著一切。
在The New York Times上，有一個22歲年輕中國人的comments，我把它全文摘錄：
I am a Chinese. I am 22 years and have been living in a city locates in the southwest of China for most of my life. When I was a teenager, not a single Chinese I knew owned a car. Neither my family or I ever dreamed of owning a private car. But 2 years ago, my parents who were in their 50s brought their first car, a Honda. Owning private cars is not unusual to Chinese anymore. Today some many Chinese have private cars that there is even an acute shortage of parking lot in my city. And just this morning, when I commuted to a nearby downtown area, I saw the four-lane road swarming with private cars during rush hours.
Unlike Americans who get their driver's licenses at an young age, Chinese get their driver's licenses at an older age. Because it is still unusual for Chinese parents to buy their teenage children cars. College students here normally don't own a car either. But this is going to change soon. Most of my friends in college are learning how to drive, even though they not yet own a car. It's because they are confident about the future. They know life will only get better.
It reminds me of something my mother once told me. Growing up in Mao's year, my mother said that the best things that a household back then could ever dream of were " a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine and a radio".
我很羨慕他，羨慕他的年輕。而我自己，最有活力最有鬥誌的年代，是在國外度過的：完成學業，找工作，結婚生子。和大部分海外華人一樣，來到國外後，我仍然和國內的親人和朋友保持著聯係，從中感受他們的拚搏、成功、失敗、喜悅、煩惱，祖國的一切都讓我掛牽，但是，也僅此而已，因為我不能說我真正做了什麽。就我個人而言，國家給我的太多，而我回報得太少，我的所有教育都是免費的，房子單位分的，職稱、職務組織評的，我曾以為那些是我應得的，但是現在知道我其實是占了國家便宜的，而且這便宜怕是一輩子也沒法還清了，慚愧啊。回頭看，我確實錯過了參與一個時代的變遷，也錯過了很多機會。雖然，機會在高速發展的中國仍然有許多，但是，現實和年紀，已經不容許我走回頭路了，我注定隻能默默祝福，祝福祖國和人民天天向上。
GO, CHINA! GO!
今天一大早，打開幾乎所有的美國各大新聞或報紙網站，你都可以顯著位置看到類似這樣的醒目標題：China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy，當然，還有無數網民的comments。
作為一個生活在海外的中國人，雖然對中國成為G2毫不奇怪，但是，當我看到這真正出現在頭版，並被美國人所熱議的時候，心中仍然不免感慨萬千。而在這些感慨之中，最讓我唏噓的，是我隻能作為一個自豪的旁觀者，在海外默默地注視著一切。
在The New York Times上，有一個22歲年輕中國人的comments，我把它全文摘錄：
I am a Chinese. I am 22 years and have been living in a city locates in the southwest of China for most of my life. When I was a teenager, not a single Chinese I knew owned a car. Neither my family or I ever dreamed of owning a private car. But 2 years ago, my parents who were in their 50s brought their first car, a Honda. Owning private cars is not unusual to Chinese anymore. Today some many Chinese have private cars that there is even an acute shortage of parking lot in my city. And just this morning, when I commuted to a nearby downtown area, I saw the four-lane road swarming with private cars during rush hours.
Unlike Americans who get their driver's licenses at an young age, Chinese get their driver's licenses at an older age. Because it is still unusual for Chinese parents to buy their teenage children cars. College students here normally don't own a car either. But this is going to change soon. Most of my friends in college are learning how to drive, even though they not yet own a car. It's because they are confident about the future. They know life will only get better.
It reminds me of something my mother once told me. Growing up in Mao's year, my mother said that the best things that a household back then could ever dream of were " a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine and a radio".
我很羨慕他，羨慕他的年輕。而我自己，最有活力最有鬥誌的年代，是在國外度過的：完成學業，找工作，結婚生子。和大部分海外華人一樣，來到國外後，我仍然和國內的親人和朋友保持著聯係，從中感受他們的拚搏、成功、失敗、喜悅、煩惱，祖國的一切都讓我掛牽，但是，也僅此而已，因為我不能說我真正做了什麽。就我個人而言，國家給我的太多，而我回報得太少，我的所有教育都是免費的，房子單位分的，職稱、職務組織評的，我曾以為那些是我應得的，但是現在知道我其實是占了國家便宜的，而且這便宜怕是一輩子也沒法還清了，慚愧啊。回頭看，我確實錯過了參與一個時代的變遷，也錯過了很多機會。雖然，機會在高速發展的中國仍然有許多，但是，現實和年紀，已經不容許我走回頭路了，我注定隻能默默祝福，祝福祖國和人民天天向上。
GO, CHINA! GO!
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