Why do I live America (a)

A few days ago we took the kids to the Disneyland. In the Fantasmic (multimedia performance when encountered), about one hundred Japanese students, sitting behind us. The students sat huddled in the two Zhang bought from Home Depot plastic cloth, the programme finished they put the cloth away.

The man is a Japanese speaking whites. He is wearing shoes, walking up and down in the two pieces of plastic cloth, taking pictures of these students. Step on our blanket, with Chinese to the sentence "sorry". Mangwan, sitting behind us, to make our two kids. These two small guys didn't want to talk to him. He also has a way, from the camera bag and pulled out two sticker, one. In this way, two small guys immediately bought him. We also chatted.

From 1980 to 1981 he teaches English at the Nanjing University. Then the main stay in Taipei, speak fluent Chinese. Then, he went to Japan to teach english. Now in Sendai the middle school as a vice president. When I asked him where Sendai, he said: "that Lu Xun stay." My wife heard him in Japan when the middle school as a vice president, a surprise. He saw the situation left one: "if you don't believe me?" The China culture eat so transparent white, also rarely see.

I could be out of date, he even took the beginning of an EOS Nikon for these students. I was in Japan, to see all of the students took the G prefix Nikon, and American not at all.

Compare with me, the vice president in a reverse direction of migration. I am from the east to the west, he is the west to the east. Every time I see such case, I would have a feeling of buying and selling stocks, two of us is likely to be a mistake, then I Is it right? Wrong?

I decided to stay in USA, is in a mess, then it is difficult to say what the overall consideration. And my Tsinghua classmates, I American is a weird. And so I came out from the University, decide whether to USA for home, they would be large to America run.

I settled American decided this is nearly twenty years ago, and made the decision, no matter in the day, or be nonplussed over sth. era, there has been no back. Today, with hindsight, then I should be able to think clearly, why in the most difficult times did not want the turtle?

The most direct way, can use Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" to summarize. "Land of peach blossoms" is very short, there is no what abstruse truth, so the paper has been introduced into the Chinese teaching material, gave me the impression is very deep.

In the years just USA, in the University, not to see the American society's true face. The professors are: only inadequate personnel will be out of university system, and enter the society. Only a few opportunities to contact the real social. Fortunately, I was consciously spent a lot of time and effort to learn, understand USA language, culture. I later in life American, benefit.

My favorite is the American USA, "be contented and happy" this point. Leave the University, to enter the society, we deeply appreciate the USA, as long as the patient takes time to learn a skill, willing to start from the bottom, everyone can live "be contented and happy life". Be promoted according to status in the University, do not feel good effect. In society, as long as there is skill, what all not afraid.

Interestingly, from another perspective, American and Tao Yuanming's description is very approximate. First of all, America indeed "land Ping Kuang, like houses". But as the granary of the world, "the beauty of Sangzhu fertile pool". As for the "traffic criss cross paths", nature is a bit outdated, but traffic developed, USA is no doubt the first stream. As for the "bright", the natural as China America densely populated, but the modern concept, not the densely populated as good. Chinese economic strength, from say on the whole, ranking third in the world, but the per capita is behind the world more than 100th, two sides so densely populated. Americans wear clothes than foreign, clothes design than Europe, Asia is simple. At this point, I think the dress is simple, rather than "men and women clothing, noted as an outsider".

I would like to mention, is the "old and young, and be contented and happy". There is a saying in USA: "America are old people and children's paradise, adult battlefield." Tao Yuanming said the yellow hair refers to the old man, early childhood children. What is America status. As for the Chinese, children in order to test, to brush up until midnight every day. The elderly because no what use, become "vulnerable groups", nobody is willing to talk to. Many people American settled, not willing to turtle, is not willing to let the children to suffer like that.

I did not ask the vice president of the a red dress in Chinese accomplishments have such a situation to japan. Because he wants to business card did not find, so don't ask. He will be the first game on the Tao Yuanming "Peach Blossom Spring", then find China reality is not so, then draw back asks next, went to Japan, don't know.

In any case, every time I go American, all have a kind of nervous to relax, "click into place.". Customs officer in the series of "Welcome home, for" sir ", I have the feeling of home. May be "human is the hometown". That we are in the Disneyland also met a from Dalian to engage in a lifetime of education of the people, he first asked where we come from, I said to him we are local. We chatted for a while, he said: "China talents are in America."

It seems, settled American this decision is not wrong.

Attached: "Tao Yuanming" the peach blossom spring:

Wuling Jin Dynasty, people, fishing, the margin of the river bank, forget the road near and far, suddenly a peach forest. Gaan few steps, no other trees, grass delicious, Fallen petals lie in profusion. He was different. Complex before, to the poor the forest. The end of the forest, there was a mountain. Hills and small mouth, as if the light. He left his boat, from the mouth.

The beginning of a very narrow, only human; complex dozens of steps, click into place. Land Ping Kuang, like houses. The beauty of Sangzhu fertile pool, traffic criss cross paths, with. The contacts for men and women clothing, noted as an outsider, old and young, and be contented and happy. When seeing the fisherman, but was shocked, asked the don, has the answer. To return home, a wine to kill a chicken feed. The village has the smell, salty to interview. Since the cloud ancestors avoid Qin chaos, rate wife Yi people this desperation, not left it was separated from the outside world. What is today the world, is not a Han, regardless of Wei and Jin dynasties. The one one is said and heard, all dead. People all complex extension to their homes, are the food and wine. Stop for a few days, quit. People here said: "no need to let others know it."

Not only that, his boat, and he helped to the road, everywhere is. And county, Yi Prefecture, say so. The Deputy then sent some people to seek the place, ambition, but they got lost and never found the way. Nanyang Liu Ziji, high type, smell, readily planned to. Failed, for final disease. After he not find.