Китайцы и 外国人
Более всего в Китае меня интересуют, конечно же, люди.
И еще одна из самых - с моей точки зрения - интересных тем - это, каковы они, иноземцы (наиболее близкий перевод китайского понятия 外国人=люди внешней страны), глазами китайцев. И почему. А так как писать об этом пока особенно некогда, здесь, для разминки, один из ключей - отрывок из замечательной книги о Китае "Wild Swans: three daughters of China". А книгу, если вы хоть немного интересуетесь историей Китая, почитайте обязательно. А если вы Китаем не интересуетесь вовсе, книгу почитайте обязательно и она откроет вам новый мир.
"As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl' in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say: "Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!" In school, when they were trying to make us work harder, the teachers often said: "You are lucky to have a school to go to and books to read.
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In my mind foreigners were terrifying. All Chinese have black hair and brown eyes, so they regard differently colored hair and eyes as strange. My image of a foreigner was more or less the official stereotype: a man with red, unkempt hair, strange-colored eyes, very, very long nose, stumbling around drunk, pouring Coca-Cola into his mouth from a bottle, with his legs splayed out in a most inelegant position. Foreigners said 'hello' all the time, with an odd intonation. I did not know what 'hello' meant; I thought it was a swear word."
И еще одна из самых - с моей точки зрения - интересных тем - это, каковы они, иноземцы (наиболее близкий перевод китайского понятия 外国人=люди внешней страны), глазами китайцев. И почему. А так как писать об этом пока особенно некогда, здесь, для разминки, один из ключей - отрывок из замечательной книги о Китае "Wild Swans: three daughters of China". А книгу, если вы хоть немного интересуетесь историей Китая, почитайте обязательно. А если вы Китаем не интересуетесь вовсе, книгу почитайте обязательно и она откроет вам новый мир.
"As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl' in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say: "Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!" In school, when they were trying to make us work harder, the teachers often said: "You are lucky to have a school to go to and books to read.
(...)
In my mind foreigners were terrifying. All Chinese have black hair and brown eyes, so they regard differently colored hair and eyes as strange. My image of a foreigner was more or less the official stereotype: a man with red, unkempt hair, strange-colored eyes, very, very long nose, stumbling around drunk, pouring Coca-Cola into his mouth from a bottle, with his legs splayed out in a most inelegant position. Foreigners said 'hello' all the time, with an odd intonation. I did not know what 'hello' meant; I thought it was a swear word."