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James Lee Fletcher－美國新聞評論者，從西方的視角，解讀西方新聞對中國民眾的影響
前麵是英文原文，後麵有中文翻譯
I can’t help but notice in the Chinese online community how many stereotypes and misconceptions surround this newcomer to American politics. With this confusion, I wanted to end my writing on Trump for now on the three main beliefs I see repeated again and again on Chinese social media. I am going to detail what I believe to be the fact and fiction between these stereotypes on Uncle Trump and leave it up to the reader to form his or her own opinion.
Fred Trump and his son, Donald pictured on the left. On the right is a “Fu Er Dai”
1. Second generation rich – Fact and Fiction
“Fu Er Dai” in China has a very special meaning. Perhaps these members of Chinese society did not earn the money they flaunt, heavily used social media while younger, lived a flamboyant lifestyle and were very outspoken in regards to what they considered the most important political and social issues of their time. However, Trumps history does not suggest he did any of these things.
FACT: Trump is second generation of money in his family. His parents were German and Swedish immigrants living in New York City. His father, Fred Trump, built his career developing real estate and business in the outer boroughs of New York City. He amassed a large fortune from his business activities.
FICTION: First and foremost, the term “Second Generation Rich” does not have near the context it has in China as it does in the United States. There is no large class of second-generation rich people as there have been rich people living in America for hundreds of years. In fact, if anything, it is more common for the third generation to piss away wealth and flaunt family success in America. As we can see with Trump’s so far conservative children, this isn’t even close to being the reality in the Trump family as they all keep a very low profile.
And onto Trump himself, he was not famous in America for leading a flamboyant lifestyle until he got older and actually became, relatively speaking in the United States, rich. When he started building his real estate empire in Manhattan, there were several occasions during his younger years that he almost lost it all. He was hard working from the beginning and was never in media when he was first developing his own business empire, separate from his fathers.
2. He is racist and hates Muslims, Mexicans – Fiction
Muslims -- America has been engaging the Middle East in a pseudo religious war since the American government began providing military supplies to Israel in 1968 with the first sales of the Phantom fighter jets following the Six-Day War. Since 1985, Israel has been the recipient of nearly $3 billion in grants a year from the United States. The fact remains, as long as America continues its political and military support of Israel, radical Islam will continue to target and threaten the United States with acts of terrorism and war. And as long as the people of the United States feel threatened, there will be a push from the citizenship to remove and restrain these people from America. Trump is tapping directly into this fear and confusion of the American people towards Muslims.
Mexicans -- In America today, there are over 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States, with estimations that the real number could be as close as 20 million. Many of these 11 million are Mexicans who sneak across the US –Mexican boarder in search of work and new opportunity. It is not that America hates Mexicans; they are upset that the United States immigration system is broken. In Trump’s quest for the Oval Office, he knows this is a subject that has the average American very upset about and so he is out to fix it. The media takes Trumps words out of context and makes him sound extreme and racist. This is just simply not the case. If there were 11 million North Koreans living illegally in Liaoning and Jilin, I think the netizens of China would have a few words to say as well.
Fact: There are several similarities between the rise of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler that I think should be noted. Adolf came to power in a democratic election in Germany in the 1930s, similar to what could soon happen for Donald this year. Additionally, both were able to rally an unhappy populace using nationalism and fear to come to prominence in their political spheres. Germany and America were also in a somewhat similar economic state with both economies and average citizens suffering, albeit, for different reasons. That is where the similarities abruptly end.
I could write a short book on the differences of Adolf and Donald personally in regards to how vastly different the life story of Adolf was compared to Donald’s thus far. Adolf was poor and spent his 20s as a struggling painter roaming the streets of Vienna following his service in the defeated German armed forces in World War I. He then tried to overthrow the German government in an armed coup in 1923 that failed and was sent to prison. From there he wrote Mein Kampf and developed a hatred of the Jews, who he famously blamed for all of Germans problems during the early part of the 20th century.
On Donald’s end… he was born an American and never served in the U.S. military and was even reportedly a draft dodger during the Vietnam War. He never attempted to overthrow the United States government and has never been to prison. Donald does not blame Mexicans and Muslims for the perilous state America is currently in, he blames the establishment and the vested interests that currently control America – which is why the media is currently saying he is so “dangerous”. Trump does not blame a race or people; he blames the American political and economic system itself.
Fiction: Hitler is famous for instigating World War II, his belief that the Aryan race was the chosen people to run the world and the holocaust of the Jewish people residing in Europe. With that said, I find it a bit of stretch to say that Trump aligns with the three main positions and beliefs that made Adolf so famous. Trump does not believe that Americans are the chosen people, has no plans to commit mass genocide of the Muslim and Hispanic people of the world and is not willing to start World War III because of a belief that the people of the United States deserve to rule the world.
As with most stereotypes, there is always a great deal of truth hidden within them. In this essay, I hope you were to gain a better prospective from what an American perceives about the three main stereotypes the Chinese netizens hold in their mind in regards to Donald Trump.
Next week, I will be distancing myself from my discussions and coverage on Trump and will be moving onto other political hot topics coming from America and what they mean for China.
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天朝人民眼裏的川普大叔：確有其事還是無稽之談
最近，囧弗發現，咱們天朝網民對川普大叔這位剛踏入美國政治領域的初生牛犢抱有一些成見和誤解。帶著這種疑慮，囧弗經過一些了解，發現天朝社交媒體上重複出現的關於川普大叔主要有三種成見，所以在這周的文章裏，囧弗想跟來跟大家分享自己關於這三種成見的看法，也算是對這三周以來川普大叔這個話題進行一個小結。當然，是非對錯讀者們可以自行判斷。
1. “富二代”——確有其事，也是無稽之談
“富二代”這個說法在天朝有非常特別的含義。也許在天朝，富二代們在人前人後所炫耀的財富根本不是自己掙得的，他們在很小的時候，生活裏就充斥著令人眼花繚亂的各種社交媒體，過著人人羨慕的奢靡生活，他們對身邊發生的自認為最重要的政治和社會問題直言不諱。然而，縱觀川普的人生曆程，我們很難發現他小時候有這些中國典型的“富二代”的經曆。
確有其事：我們可以確定的是，川普確實繼承了家族的財富，但他僅僅是金錢上的富二代。他的父母分別為德國人和瑞典人，移民到紐約生活。川普的老爸是弗雷德·特朗普，他通過投資紐約外行政區的房地產和商業，建立起了自己的帝國。川普從老爸的商業帝國裏繼承了數不清的財產。
無稽之談：首先，在美國，“富二代”這個詞使用的語境跟在中國完全不一樣。在美國沒有那麽大的“富二代”階層，因為有錢人已經在美國生活了幾百年了。其實在美國，更常見的是第三代人肆意炫耀和揮霍家族的財富。可是正如我們現在看到的，川普的孩子們略偏保守和傳統，上麵提到的這種第三代人的情況在川普家基本上不存在，因為他們全家都挺低調的。
至於川普本人，直到他上了年紀，並且在美國人看來相對來說富得流油之後，他才被人冠以過著奢華生活的頭銜。早些年間，當在曼哈頓建立自己的房地產帝國時，有好幾次他都差點玩兒完了。一開始建立自己的商業帝國時，他就沒有生活在老爸的光環之下，他白手起家，努力勤奮，從不在媒體上露麵。
2. 他是種族主義者，憎恨穆斯林和墨西哥人——無稽之談
無稽之談：川普打心眼兒裏不會因為人們的國籍、膚色或者宗教信仰不同而憎恨他們。他的這些言辭隻是反映了當前存在於美國社會裏的一種憤怒情緒。
穆斯林——美國政府在六日戰爭之後首度向以色列輸出幽靈式戰鬥機，從1968年開始為以色列提供軍事援助。自那以後，美國政府就卷入了中東的偽宗教戰爭。自1985年開始，以色列每年可以從美國獲得30億美元的援助。隻要美國繼續對以色列進行政治和軍事支持，激進的伊斯蘭就會繼續以美國為目標，以恐怖主義和戰爭這種形式威脅美國的安全。而隻要美國感受到了這種威脅，民眾們就會對這些穆斯林產生強烈的抵觸情緒，想把已經在美國的趕出去，把還沒來美國的擋回去。川普其實是一個擴音器，把美國民眾對於穆斯林的這種害怕和困惑的聲音放大了。
墨西哥人——在今天的美國活躍著超過1千1百萬的非法移民，而據估計，非法移民的真正人數可能有接近2千萬。在這1千1百萬人中，有許多墨西哥人，他們偷渡過美墨邊境，溜進美國，尋找工作和新的生活機會。讓美國人抓狂的不是墨西哥人，而是美國移民體係的崩潰。川普在向橢圓形辦公室行進的道路上一路高歌，因為他知道這是一個讓普通美國民眾抓狂的問題，需要他來解決。而媒體呢對川普的這種政治宣言斷章取義，把他塑造成了極端主義者和種族主義者。其實根本就不是這樣的。換個角度說，如果在遼寧和吉林生活著1千1百萬從朝鮮偷渡來的人，囧弗覺得天朝網民對此也會頗有微詞。
3. 川普是新版希特勒——確有其事，也是無稽之談
確有其事：囧弗覺得，唐納德•特朗普和阿道夫•希特勒的“崛起”有一定的相似點。阿道夫是在19世紀30年代通過民主選舉掌權的，跟川普今年接下來很可能會經曆的競選過程十分相似。此外，這兩個人都有這樣的能力——通過民族主義和民眾的恐懼，他們積聚了許多憤怒的民眾，組成同盟，從而在自己的政治領域形成了一股不可忽視的顯赫力量。德國當時和美國現在的經濟形勢也或多或少有點相似，雖然導致經濟問題的原因不同，但兩國的普通民眾都生活在水深火熱之中。不過，這兩個人的相似點其實也就這些，到此就結束了。
事實上，通過對比阿道夫和唐納德的人生曆程，這兩個人的不同點多的都可以讓囧弗寫一本書了。阿道夫曾參加過一戰，當兵打仗，但一戰中德國戰敗了，從那以後他窮困潦倒，在他20多歲的時候淪落到在維也納街頭靠畫畫糊口的地步。後來，他加入一個武裝政變組織，在1923年試圖推翻當時的德國政府。但是政變失敗，他被了關進大牢。打那以後，他寫了《我的奮鬥》，成了憎恨猶太人的典型代表，因為他認為20世紀初，猶太人是導致德國各種問題的罪魁禍首。
再看看唐納德呢，他生在美國，從未在美國軍隊裏服過兵役，他甚至還被挖出來在越南戰爭裏逃了兵役。他從沒想過要顛覆美國政府，也從沒進過監獄。唐納德並不把美國現在所處的危險境地賴在墨西哥人和穆斯林頭上，他抱怨的是美國的建製派，抱怨的是在美國背後掌控一切的利益集團——這也就是為什麽各種媒體把他貼上“危險人物”的標簽。川普大叔並不是責怪某個種族或者民族，他抱怨的是美國的政治和經濟體製本身。
無稽之談：一說到希特勒，大家都知道他發動了二戰，也知道他認為非猶太民族的白種人才是被特選的子民，隻有他們才能統治全世界，還知道他對歐洲猶太民族的種族大屠殺，這三點可以說是他的標簽了。不過在這種情況下，如果把川普大叔貼上阿道夫的這三個標簽，囧弗覺得有點言過其實了。川普大叔並不認為美國人是被特選的子民，沒有打算對全世界的穆斯林和西班牙裔實行種族滅絕，也沒想過發動第三次世界大戰，因為他沒覺得美國人應該統治全世界。
結語：
大多數的成見其實在很大程度上是有一定道理的。讀完這篇文章，囧弗希望讀者們能夠從美國人的角度對咱們天朝網民們對川普大叔形成的這三種成見進行更深的了解。
下一周，囧弗不再聊川普大叔了，要跟他說再見了。囧弗會跟大家聊聊美國其他的熱門話題，以及這些話題對天朝意味著什麽。
在此，囧弗十分感謝各位肯花您寶貴的時間聽囧弗嘮叨美國的新聞。像往常一樣，如果你喜歡這篇文章，請點讚，評論，轉發分享吧！謝謝大家！
