針對中國的“美國式偏見”從何而來？這個外國網友一言戳穿！_風聞

近日，一名到中國旅行的美國網友在“震驚”的不解中，在美版知乎“quora”上發出了一連串的“靈魂拷問”：

為什麼我見到的中國與我聽到的中國完全不一樣？

為什麼現在還有這麼多美國人不瞭解真正的中國？

1、Barman

Here is a simple, but politically incorrect answer to the question as I refuse to join the party of Chinese drum beating.

對於這個問題，我有一個簡單但不正確的回答，因為我拒絕加入吹噓中國的隊伍。

You know why? Because in spite of the supposed extra-ordinary technical developments happening in China, it is still viewed as a massive emigration hungry nation, just like India. The number of people migrating to China, or even desiring to migrate, is minimal in comparison.

你知道為什麼嗎？儘管所謂的超常技術發展正在中國發生，但它仍被視為一個像印度一樣渴望大規模移民國外的國家。相比之下，移民到中國，甚至想要移民到中國的人數是微乎其微的。

2、Effweye Young

Interesting observation…. May I offer a possible explanation, which takes into account demographics?China has a population that is roughly 60 times that of similarly sized Australia (1.37 billion vs. 23.2 million).How often do you see Australian expats in Singapore? Now for each one that you see, you should expect to see 60 Chinese foreign workers/immigrants, assuming all other variables to be equal.As a PERCENTAGE of China huge population, Chinese emigrating abroad is a really small percentage.

有趣的觀點…我可以給你提供一個可能的解釋，你似乎應該考慮到人口統計學？中國的人口大約是面積差不多的澳大利亞的60倍(13.7億對2320萬)。你多久見到一次澳大利亞人移民到新加坡？現在你每看到一個，你應該看到60箇中國外籍工人/移民才合理，假設所有其他變量都相等的話。所以在中國龐大的人口中，中國人移居海外的比例非常小。

3、Swagato Roy

As a PERCENTAGE of China huge population, Chinese emigrating abroad is a really small percentage.Yeah, small percentage, but what if you take the same percentage for different countries? The number you would get will likely be even smaller for Australia, Canada, UK etc. even though I do not have any concrete statistics.

在中國龐大的人口中，中國人移居海外的比例非常小。是的，比例很小，但是如果你在不同的國家取相同的百分比呢？澳大利亞、加拿大、英國等國家移民海外在本國人口中所佔的比例可能會更小，即使我沒有任何具體的統計數據。

4、Seth Oteng

The average American has no awareness of, nor exposure to, the average person in China.Even students of China studies in America are taught with a narrowing list of largely American-authored textbooks.

普通美國人對普通中國人一無所知，也不瞭解他們。即使是在美國學習研究中國的學生也只能學到以美國人編寫的教科書。

China is also castigated in the Western media for its terrible air pollution.The liberal media excoriate China for human rights abuses.The Western media blast China for cheating in its trade relations with other countries, even though most countries in the world practice protectionism of some sort.

西方媒體嚴厲譴責中國的空氣污染。自由派媒體嚴厲批評中國侵犯人權。儘管世界上大多數國家都實行某種形式的保護主義，西方媒體還是隻抨擊中國。

Well, here’s the deal: Chinese industries are not only getting closer to the technological frontier in conventional areas such as electronics, machinery, automobiles, high-speed railways and aviation, but also driving technological innovations in emerging areas such as new and renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy, next generation telecommunication technologies, big data and supercomputers, A.I., robotics, space technology, and e-commerce.

好吧，其實中國是這樣的:中國不僅在電子、機械、汽車、高速鐵路和航空等傳統領域越來越接近技術前沿，而且還推動了新興領域的技術創新，如新能源和可再生能源、核能、下一代通信技術、大數據和超級計算機、人工智能、機器人、空間技術和電子商務等。

5、Guotao Huang

dude, as a member of strategic fooyou(fool you) bureau(戰略忽悠局), which is a non government civil organization, I can tell you some shady pictures are shown to you by members like me on purpose. we would love foreigners to think us of underdeveloped, to underestimate us, so that we can have space to catch up and surpass. that we call fool you strategy.

夥計，作為一個非政府民間組織戰略忽悠局的成員，我可以告訴你，一些像我這樣的成員故意給你看一些中國不好的照片。我們希望外國人認為我們不夠發達，低估我們，這樣我們才有空間趕上和超越你們，我們稱之為忽悠。

6、Reno Hyde

Well good thing you haven’’t fooled people like me. Americans tend to underestimate other people while Europeans are often well aware of what others are capable of.

還好你沒有忽悠到像我這樣的人。美國人往往喜歡低估其他國家的人，而歐洲人往往很清楚其他國家的能力。

7、David Guozilu

there is much fake news about anti-China，easpecailly from BBC，CNN，VOA， Taiwan，Al Jazeera，FRI, for different political purposes.

出於不同的政治目的，有很多黑中國的假新聞，從BBC，CNN，VOA，到半島電視台，美國萬花筒，哪裏都有。

8、David Guozilu

I watched a few videos and they did have some knowledge of China. However, the Chinese they have contacted are limited, their living range is limited, and they still use Western values to uate China, which is very small and low-level. In other words, they are also subjectively introducing China in their eyes. China and Europe are equal in size, and the population is the sum of Europe and the United States. China should be viewed from a macro perspective. I prefer scholars and professors to China, such as Martin Jacques, not Western politicians and government mouthpieces. Relatively speaking, the Chinese government’s ability to outreach has yet to be improved, and it rarely attacks or interferes with the political systems and people’s lives of other countries.

我看了一些視頻，他們確實對中國有一些瞭解。然而，他們接觸的中國人是有限的，他們的生活範圍是有限的，他們仍然使用西方價值觀來評價中國，這是非常低水平的。換句話説，他們也是在主觀地介紹他們眼中的中國。中國和歐洲面積相等，人口是歐洲和美國的總和。我們應該從宏觀的角度來看待中國。與他們相比，我更喜歡一些學者和教授，比如馬丁.雅克，而不是西方政客和政府的喉舌。相對而言，中國的外聯能力還有待提高，但它很少攻擊或干涉別國的政治制度和人民生活。

9、Adi Primanda Ginting

How many people do you want their contacted? hehe this is funny. They have gone to more China’s provinces than most Chinese citizens. North China to South China. They are individuals not politicians or government mouthpieces. To use western values to see China is not wrong, just different perspective. Even communist values come from the west.Now, Chinese people can’t speak up their mind to the world. There’s very limited way for Chinese people to speak about themselves to the world.

你希望他們接觸過多少人？呵呵，真好笑。他們去過的省份比大多數中國人都多，從華北至華南。他們是個人，而不是政客或政府喉舌。用西方的價值觀來看待中國並沒有錯，只是觀點不同而已。甚至連價值觀也是來自西方。現在，中國人不能向世界暢所欲言。中國人向世界介紹自己的方式非常有限。

10、David

I have seen some.of their videos and find their opinions jumbled and anecdotal. They mixed technology, economic, culture, and social development indiscriminately. Consequently, you get statements like “even though China has modern cities, people still don’’t queue up, they still spit in public, etc.” Conflating different aspects of a society, and make conclusions based on one’’s self credited sense of cultural superiority, inevitably distorts the real situation. Cultural maturity comes with having long established experience of dealing with large and varied cultures over an extended period of time. Technological development has a different developmental path, and requires study but not necessarily cultural immersion. Other examples can be cited, but you got my point. Bottom line, they think very highly of their own cultural worldliness.

我看過一些視頻，發現他們的觀點混亂。他們不分青紅皂白地把技術、經濟、文化和社會發展混在一起。因此，你會看到“即使中國有現代化的城市，人們仍然不排隊，他們仍然在公共場所吐痰等等”這樣的陳述。把一個社會的不同方面混為一談，並根據自己自信的文化優越感得出結論，不可避免地扭曲了真實情況。文化的成熟來自於長期處理各種各樣的大型文化的經驗。技術發展有不同的發展道路，需要學習，但不一定要文化浸入。還有很多其他的例子可以引用，但是你明白我的意思。總之，他們非常看重自己的文化世界。

11、Shawn Kloog

David so what you’re saying is every new source except the Chinese new source is inaccurate?

David，所以你的意思是除了來源於中國的新聞外，所有其他來源都是不準確的，是嗎?

12、Joshua Beta

I’d go there, but I must get my passport, the visa to enter there and I must master the language and avoiding to seem a stupid Westerner.I am from Mexico.

我會去那裏，但是我必須拿到我的護照和簽證才能去那裏，我必須掌握那裏的語言，以避免看起來像一個愚蠢的西方人。我來自墨西哥。

13、Francois Ouellette

Nobody will think you are a “stupid Westerner”. The people are always extremely nice. Sure learn the basics, it’s just polite, but if you come just for a visit, it will be OK.

沒有人會認為你是一個“愚蠢的西方人”。中國人總是非常友好。當然，學習基礎語言只是出於禮貌，但是如果你只是來旅遊的話，那就沒有任何問題。

14、Allen Wang

Don’’t worry, most of the people in China are, although they might not smile that often, very kind to visitors as long as they behave. Hope you enjoy your journey! :-)

別擔心，大多數中國人都是這樣的，雖然他們可能不會經常微笑，但是他們對遊客非常友好。祝您旅途愉快！:-)

15、Thomas Pauken

Many Americans thinks about foreign countries in terms of historical stereotypes. France is believed to be a nation of cowards, because the French Armies had run away from the battle fields twice against invading Germans in World Wars I and II.

許多美國人都以歷史的刻板印象來看待外國。法國被認為是一個懦夫的國家，因為在一戰和二戰中，法國軍隊曾兩次在戰場上面對入侵的德國人選擇了逃跑。

The British are viewed upon as monarchists and colonialists. Japan is perceived as a h-tech wonder world, while many Americans still hold a Cold War mentality and seem unaware that Russia and China are different from the times of Stalin and Mao.

英國人被看作是君主主義者和殖民主義者。日本被視為高科技奇蹟世界，而許多美國人仍抱着冷戰思維，似乎沒有意識到俄羅斯和中國的不同。

In other words, the stereotyping has prevented many Americans from wanting to draw closer to China for fear that they would be mocked as pro-Marxists by their friends, family and peers. United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo can write an official letter of rebuke, claiming ， many US citizens conclude it must be true without seeing verifiable evidence.

換句話説，這種成見阻礙了許多美國人想要與中國更加親近，因為他們害怕自己會被朋友、家人和同齡人嘲笑為親馬克思主義者。美國國務卿彭佩奧寫了一封官方的譴責信，許多美國公民在沒有看到可證實的證據的情況下就斷定這是真的。

Interesting enough, the Israeli government has faced allegations that they mistreat Muslims in Palestine, but Washington overlooks such concerns and shines a spotlights on China’s crackdown on terrorism, claiming they are abusing the human rights of would-be suicide bombers and knife-slashing terrorists.

有趣的是，以色列政府面臨着虐待巴勒斯坦的指控，但美國忽視了這個問題，並將焦點放在中國打擊恐怖主義的行動上，稱中國正在踐踏自殺式炸彈襲擊者和持刀恐怖分子的人權。

The contradictions over Washington’s treatment of Israel and China’s policy are boundless and Americans have wrongly assumed that Beijing is backwards and Westerners are good and tolerant. Accordingly, my recommendation would be to visit China if you can and then deliver your opinion.

美國對待以色列和中國的政策是非常矛盾的，美國人錯誤地認為中國是落後的，西方人才是善良和寬容的。因此，我的建議是如果可能的話，去中國看看，然後再發表你的意見。

Of course, you may have a bad trip to China and if so it’s understandable, you lack a positive impression of the Chinese people. But when I’m meeting Americans who visited China for their first time, most of them were surprised and held a more optimistic viewpoint of the country.

當然，你可能會有一次糟糕的中國之旅，如果是這樣的話，我完全可以理解，因為你對中國人民缺乏積極的印象。但是，當我與第一次訪問中國的美國人見面時，他們中的大多數人都感到驚訝，並對中國抱有更為樂觀的看法

That’s because they likely had very low expectations before arriving here but instead they saw beautiful tourist sites and met regular people who treated them with friendship and respect.

這是因為他們在到達這裏之前可能期望值很低，但是他們看到了美麗的旅遊景點，遇到了對他們友好和尊重的普通人。

So long as Americans come to China in a peaceful manner; following the laws and regulations of the country there’s no reason for the Chinese to treat them with a condescending attitude. The Chinese are strong believers in giving respect to people who show them respect.

只要美國人以和平的方式來到中國，遵守這個國家的法律法規，中國人就沒有理由對他們採取居高臨下的態度。中國人非常相信尊重那些對他們表示尊重的人。

Additionally, Americans are often surprised how clean Chinese cities are, compared with their hometowns because local sanitation workers pick up the trash every single day, while the police patrolling the streets keep crime rates low and the homeless are not permitted to harass local residents. That’s very different from most American cities, struggling with serious littering, high crime waves and homelessness.

此外，美國人常常驚訝於中國城市與他們的家鄉相比是多麼的乾淨，因為當地的環衞工人每天都要清理垃圾，而且因為有在街道上巡邏的警察，他們一直保持着低犯罪率，無家可歸者不允許騷擾當地居民。這與大多數美國城市的情況大相徑庭，美國的城市正在與嚴重的亂丟垃圾、高犯罪率和無家可歸現象作鬥爭。

毫不諱言，對於美國網友“Thomas Pauken”的觀點，老鐵表示十分贊同：

許多美國人都以歷史的刻板印象來看待外國。

這不由得讓老鐵想起了前不久流行中國的一句話——“偏見是一座大山”！

大概，這才是真正阻礙美國人去認識中國的真正原因，而我們同樣有理由相信，如果我們雙方任由這種陌生和偏見肆意滋生的話，那麼最終無論是對於中國人、美國人亦或者這個世界，都不是一個好消息。