翻译个小作文，书呆子宣言

美国公司经常雇用国外出生或者第一代美国人的工程师，而不是纯种美国人，原因不是本土美国人IQ低。一个重要原因是Cword， 就是文化。困难的问题需要困难的答案，如果我们认真地想解决问题，我们必须面对现实。

我们的美国文化已经太长时间推崇平庸，而不是有所建树，至少从就是年代就是这样。这不是从大学开始的，而是从童年开始。

庆祝高中毕业典礼的女皇而不是数学奥林匹克的冠军,庆祝体育明星而不是学习尖子，这种文化不会产生最优秀的工程师。

推崇Boy Meets World,里的Cory或者 Saved by the Bell,里的 Zach Slater而不是 Screech 或者 Family Matters,里的Stefan而不是 Steve Urkel ，这种文化不会产生最优秀的工程师。

事实上，我知道九十年很多移民家庭主动限制孩子孩子看那些电视节目因为它们宣传平庸，他们的孩子最终都是成功的STEM毕业生。

我们需要更多Whiplash这样的电影，而不是不停播放老友记。我们需要更多数学辅导，少来些sleepover.更多周末科学竞赛，少看点星期六的卡通。更多书，少些电视。更多创造，少些享受。多上点课，少逛点购物中心。

大多正常的美国家长带着怀疑的眼光看那些另类的家长和孩子。更多正常美国孩子鄙视这些另类的孩子。如果你成长过程就想融入这种正常，你将来会成为这种普通人。

闭上眼睛想象一下，你知道的家庭在九十年代或者现在，在这两种模型中培养他们的孩子。现实是残酷的。

正常不能应对高度竞争的全球市场对科技人才的需求，如果我们假装可以，那我们就等着中国扇大嘴巴吧。

这是生死攸关的时刻，我们已经从沉睡中醒来。希望川普的胜选开启美国的金色时代。这一切需要美国文化的觉醒。一种文化，成就高于正常，出色高于平庸，书呆子高于路人，勤奋高于懒惰。

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born first-generation engineers over native Americans isnt because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers if were really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesnt start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from Boy Meets World, or Zach Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell, or Stefan over Steve Urkel in Family Matters, will not produce the best engineers. (Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrityand their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates). More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends. More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less chillin. More extracurriculars, less hanging out at the mall. Most normal American parents look skeptically at those kinds of parents. More normal American kids view such those kinds of kids with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now close your eyes visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. Normalcy doesnt cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, well have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. Weve awaken from slumber before we can do it again. Trumps election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. Thats the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. Im confident we can do it.