公眾人物畢業(yè)演講(MP3+字幕)第65期:金墉美國(guó)東北大學(xué)(4)

They fell in love, married

他們墜入愛(ài)河 締結(jié)良緣

my older brother was born in New York City

在紐約市生下我哥哥

and then returned to Korea

然后回到韓國(guó)

I was born in Seoul and when I was five

我出生在首爾 在我五歲時(shí)

my family moved back to the United States

我們舉家搬回到美國(guó)

and we eventually settled in Muscatine, Iowa

我們最終定居在愛(ài)荷華州的馬斯卡廷

My father opened his dental practice

我的父親開了自己的牙科診所

and my mother set to work on her PhD in philosophy at the University of Iowa

我的母親在愛(ài)荷華大學(xué)研修哲學(xué)博士學(xué)位

In the late 60's, influenced by my mother's passion for social justice

在60年代末 受我母親熱衷于社會(huì)公正的影響

we watched the civil rights and anti-war movements

我們看到民權(quán)和反戰(zhàn)運(yùn)動(dòng)

unfold from our living room in Muscatine

從馬斯卡廷我們家的客廳展開

We lived, as you can tell

你們可以想象 我們有著

the classic All-American, Korean family grows up in a small town in Iowa story

在愛(ài)荷華州一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)的經(jīng)典的韓裔美籍家庭中成長(zhǎng)的經(jīng)歷

We fully embraced our lives in the heart land of this great country

我們完全接受了在這個(gè)偉大國(guó)家中心地帶的生活

As you might imagine

正如你們可以想象

there weren't a lot of Asians in Iowa in the 60's and 70's

在60年代和70年代 愛(ài)荷華州的亞洲人并不多

but happily, one of the most popular shows at that time was Kung Fu

但令人高興的是 當(dāng)時(shí)最受歡迎的一個(gè)節(jié)目是《功夫》

the story of a former Shaolin priest

故事講的是一個(gè)少林和尚

half-American, half-Chinese

一半美國(guó)血統(tǒng) 一半中國(guó)血統(tǒng)

who comes to the United States to find his American father

到美國(guó)來(lái)尋找他的美國(guó)父親

So while we were outsiders in a profound sense in Iowa

所以 雖然我們從深層意義上講在愛(ài)荷華州屬于外人

at least the bully kids left us alone

但至少愛(ài)欺負(fù)人的孩子不招惹我們

because they thought all Asians knew Kung Fu

因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為所有的亞洲人都會(huì)功夫

even my sister, and she was 3 when we moved to Iowa

甚至我妹妹 她到愛(ài)荷華州的時(shí)候才只有三歲