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James Lee Fletcher－美国新闻评论者，从西方的视角，解读西方新闻对中国民众的影响
前面是英文原文，后面有中文翻译
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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天朝人民眼里的川普大叔：确有其事还是无稽之谈
最近，囧弗发现，咱们天朝网民对川普大叔这位刚踏入美国政治领域的初生牛犊抱有一些成见和误解。带着这种疑虑，囧弗经过一些了解，发现天朝社交媒体上重复出现的关于川普大叔主要有三种成见，所以在这周的文章里，囧弗想跟来跟大家分享自己关于这三种成见的看法，也算是对这三周以来川普大叔这个话题进行一个小结。当然，是非对错读者们可以自行判断。
1. “富二代”——确有其事，也是无稽之谈
“富二代”这个说法在天朝有非常特别的含义。也许在天朝，富二代们在人前人后所炫耀的财富根本不是自己挣得的，他们在很小的时候，生活里就充斥着令人眼花缭乱的各种社交媒体，过着人人羡慕的奢靡生活，他们对身边发生的自认为最重要的政治和社会问题直言不讳。然而，纵观川普的人生历程，我们很难发现他小时候有这些中国典型的“富二代”的经历。
确有其事：我们可以确定的是，川普确实继承了家族的财富，但他仅仅是金钱上的富二代。他的父母分别为德国人和瑞典人，移民到纽约生活。川普的老爸是弗雷德·特朗普，他通过投资纽约外行政区的房地产和商业，建立起了自己的帝国。川普从老爸的商业帝国里继承了数不清的财产。
无稽之谈：首先，在美国，“富二代”这个词使用的语境跟在中国完全不一样。在美国没有那么大的“富二代”阶层，因为有钱人已经在美国生活了几百年了。其实在美国，更常见的是第三代人肆意炫耀和挥霍家族的财富。可是正如我们现在看到的，川普的孩子们略偏保守和传统，上面提到的这种第三代人的情况在川普家基本上不存在，因为他们全家都挺低调的。
至于川普本人，直到他上了年纪，并且在美国人看来相对来说富得流油之后，他才被人冠以过着奢华生活的头衔。早些年间，当在曼哈顿建立自己的房地产帝国时，有好几次他都差点玩儿完了。一开始建立自己的商业帝国时，他就没有生活在老爸的光环之下，他白手起家，努力勤奋，从不在媒体上露面。
2. 他是种族主义者，憎恨穆斯林和墨西哥人——无稽之谈
无稽之谈：川普打心眼儿里不会因为人们的国籍、肤色或者宗教信仰不同而憎恨他们。他的这些言辞只是反映了当前存在于美国社会里的一种愤怒情绪。
穆斯林——美国政府在六日战争之后首度向以色列输出幽灵式战斗机，从1968年开始为以色列提供军事援助。自那以后，美国政府就卷入了中东的伪宗教战争。自1985年开始，以色列每年可以从美国获得30亿美元的援助。只要美国继续对以色列进行政治和军事支持，激进的伊斯兰就会继续以美国为目标，以恐怖主义和战争这种形式威胁美国的安全。而只要美国感受到了这种威胁，民众们就会对这些穆斯林产生强烈的抵触情绪，想把已经在美国的赶出去，把还没来美国的挡回去。川普其实是一个扩音器，把美国民众对于穆斯林的这种害怕和困惑的声音放大了。
墨西哥人——在今天的美国活跃着超过1千1百万的非法移民，而据估计，非法移民的真正人数可能有接近2千万。在这1千1百万人中，有许多墨西哥人，他们偷渡过美墨边境，溜进美国，寻找工作和新的生活机会。让美国人抓狂的不是墨西哥人，而是美国移民体系的崩溃。川普在向椭圆形办公室行进的道路上一路高歌，因为他知道这是一个让普通美国民众抓狂的问题，需要他来解决。而媒体呢对川普的这种政治宣言断章取义，把他塑造成了极端主义者和种族主义者。其实根本就不是这样的。换个角度说，如果在辽宁和吉林生活着1千1百万从朝鲜偷渡来的人，囧弗觉得天朝网民对此也会颇有微词。
3. 川普是新版希特勒——确有其事，也是无稽之谈
确有其事：囧弗觉得，唐纳德•特朗普和阿道夫•希特勒的“崛起”有一定的相似点。阿道夫是在19世纪30年代通过民主选举掌权的，跟川普今年接下来很可能会经历的竞选过程十分相似。此外，这两个人都有这样的能力——通过民族主义和民众的恐惧，他们积聚了许多愤怒的民众，组成同盟，从而在自己的政治领域形成了一股不可忽视的显赫力量。德国当时和美国现在的经济形势也或多或少有点相似，虽然导致经济问题的原因不同，但两国的普通民众都生活在水深火热之中。不过，这两个人的相似点其实也就这些，到此就结束了。
事实上，通过对比阿道夫和唐纳德的人生历程，这两个人的不同点多的都可以让囧弗写一本书了。阿道夫曾参加过一战，当兵打仗，但一战中德国战败了，从那以后他穷困潦倒，在他20多岁的时候沦落到在维也纳街头靠画画糊口的地步。后来，他加入一个武装政变组织，在1923年试图推翻当时的德国政府。但是政变失败，他被了关进大牢。打那以后，他写了《我的奋斗》，成了憎恨犹太人的典型代表，因为他认为20世纪初，犹太人是导致德国各种问题的罪魁祸首。
再看看唐纳德呢，他生在美国，从未在美国军队里服过兵役，他甚至还被挖出来在越南战争里逃了兵役。他从没想过要颠覆美国政府，也从没进过监狱。唐纳德并不把美国现在所处的危险境地赖在墨西哥人和穆斯林头上，他抱怨的是美国的建制派，抱怨的是在美国背后掌控一切的利益集团——这也就是为什么各种媒体把他贴上“危险人物”的标签。川普大叔并不是责怪某个种族或者民族，他抱怨的是美国的政治和经济体制本身。
无稽之谈：一说到希特勒，大家都知道他发动了二战，也知道他认为非犹太民族的白种人才是被特选的子民，只有他们才能统治全世界，还知道他对欧洲犹太民族的种族大屠杀，这三点可以说是他的标签了。不过在这种情况下，如果把川普大叔贴上阿道夫的这三个标签，囧弗觉得有点言过其实了。川普大叔并不认为美国人是被特选的子民，没有打算对全世界的穆斯林和西班牙裔实行种族灭绝，也没想过发动第三次世界大战，因为他没觉得美国人应该统治全世界。
结语：
大多数的成见其实在很大程度上是有一定道理的。读完这篇文章，囧弗希望读者们能够从美国人的角度对咱们天朝网民们对川普大叔形成的这三种成见进行更深的了解。
下一周，囧弗不再聊川普大叔了，要跟他说再见了。囧弗会跟大家聊聊美国其他的热门话题，以及这些话题对天朝意味着什么。
在此，囧弗十分感谢各位肯花您宝贵的时间听囧弗唠叨美国的新闻。像往常一样，如果你喜欢这篇文章，请点赞，评论，转发分享吧！谢谢大家！
