[美國文化觀察]

川普前幾天說, 以後的移民要在移民美國時, 就要會說英文. 經濟學人這篇文章講的挺好: 其實移民移居美國後, 早晚都會說英文的.

在我身上其實也應證了這說法. 旅居美國十幾年, 雖然平常有跟此地的台灣同胞保持互動, 但因為身處在美語環境, 也為了生存下去, 所以我漸漸地習慣說英文, 聽英文歌, 看美國電視, 看原文書. 我也很清楚地意識到, 自己的母語(中文)能力在退化中. 所以我前幾年開始接英翻中的case, 而兩年前也開始藉著寫中文個股分析與開部落格來彌補這問題. 很多時候不是我故意在秀英文, 而是我真的不知道該用甚麼中文字來表達意思了, 或是我覺得用英文能夠更傳神地表達我的想法.

"Rather than refusing to learn English, today’s immigrants actually abandon their first language much more readily than previous generations. German, the language spoken by the president’s ancestors, is a case in point. Germans arrived in America in big waves in the middle of the 19th century. Generations later, they were still speaking German at home; a small number were even monolingual in German despite being born in America. Only with America’s entry into the first world war did German-speakers drop their suddenly unpopular language.

Today the typical pattern is that the arriving generation speaks little English, or learns it imperfectly; the first children born in America are bilingual, but English-dominant, and their children hardly speak the heritage language. This is as true of Hispanics as it is of speakers of smaller languages—and all without a lecture from the White House."

以下是全文:
DONALD TRUMP’s young administration is adept at one particular manoeuvre. Whenever the president is having a terrible time in the press, for some embarrassing statement, interview or imbroglio, the White House announces a far-reaching policy designed to stoke up his nationalist base while infuriating his opponents. In February it was the proposed ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. Last month it was the announcement on Twitter that he would not let transgender soldiers serve in the military.

In each case, the new policy tends to hurt people who can be portrayed as threatening outsiders to ordinary Americans who work hard and pay their taxes. Yesterday’s announcement to back a months-old plan to overhaul America’s immigration rules falls in the same category. If implemented, it would reward applicants with sought-after job skills who already speak English, at the expense of low-skilled workers without language skills.

This may seem perfectly sensible: after all, skilled immigrants are a good thing. But as an ongoing shortage of farm workers in California shows, unskilled immigrants are just as crucial. Equally, it is a good thing if immigrants speak English. But they need not speak it before arrival: as it is impossible to participate fully in American life without speaking English, the incentive to learn it quickly is overwhelming.

The administration’s emphasis on English skills therefore harks back to an old myth that the linguistic make-up of America, which has been an English-dominant country for a long time, is changing: that the status of English is somehow threatened, especially by Spanish, but more generally by the notion that English is no longer needed in the economy.

The myth goes something like this: today’s immigrants want to come to America to isolate themselves into communities that do not speak English. American policy tacitly encourages this by not being tough enough in requiring English. In the past, immigrants happily learned English quickly; “my grandpa came here from the old country but he refused to speak his old language; he insisted on getting by in his broken English until he was fluent.” But today’s immigrants no longer do so, as multiculturalism has replaced the melting pot.
All of this is wrong. America began as a thin band of English colonies clinging to the eastern coast, vastly outnumbered by speakers of other languages. The foreign-born percentage of the population peaked not last year—the administration likes to talk of “unprecedented” numbers—but in 1890, when the share of foreign-born residents was at an all-time high of 14.8%. This proportion has risen again after declining in the mid-20th century (it stood at 12.9% in the 2010 census). America today has multilingual big cities with their voting instructions in Korean, Chinese and Russian.

Historically, this is the norm rather than the exception: the years from 1925 to 1965, when immigration was almost completely cut off, were unusual. But those born from the 1940s to the 1960s became used to the low numbers of foreign-born residents, regarding this state as normal. That in turn supported a belief that America has always naturally belonged completely to English.
For most of its history, America was precisely the “polyglot boardinghouse” Teddy Roosevelt once worried it would become. That history has turned out very well not just for America, but for English—the most successful language in the history of the world. Along with American power, English has spread around the globe. At home, wave after wave after wave of immigrants to America have not only learned English but forgotten the languages their parents brought with them.

Rather than refusing to learn English, today’s immigrants actually abandon their first language much more readily than previous generations. German, the language spoken by the president’s ancestors, is a case in point. Germans arrived in America in big waves in the middle of the 19th century. Generations later, they were still speaking German at home; a small number were even monolingual in German despite being born in America. Only with America’s entry into the first world war did German-speakers drop their suddenly unpopular language.

Today the typical pattern is that the arriving generation speaks little English, or learns it imperfectly; the first children born in America are bilingual, but English-dominant, and their children hardly speak the heritage language. This is as true of Hispanics as it is of speakers of smaller languages—and all without a lecture from the White House.

另外蒙面法之後，可能會有每日限住你攞幾多錢，資金限制出境，港元脫鉤等問題。都係嗰句，香港人要未雨綢繆，早啲做好準備好啲。
Marina條片出左啦，大家可以聽返原裝版? https://youtu.be/3aE-UgVwj58?t=3793
English Transcript
From The Council through Marina Jacobi.
This is the beginning of Hong Kong, I discussed last time if you guys remember, they (The Councils) just told me right now but this is just the beginning of Hong Kong to fight for its freedom and it’s a lot more to come because the new Generation they said is going to gain its freedom. I’m not given exactly how but it’s more to come of the same right now, it is going to reach peak performance within two years. Basically, it’s going to be back and forth, all these riots.
The best way, they said (The Councils) is to observe and when situation presents itself, be of the “Best of Yourself” in the Name of Humanity, if you keep up with that and hold the vibration of knowingness with no fear, understand that no matter what happens, you are always going to be shown the bridge for your safety. Because basically, the same, like you are going to project it if you don’t get into fear. So you turn around no matter what happens, you’re always going to have food, help, and situation that will end up in a positive outcome for you, no matter what happens. So, go back to Quantum Structure video one, two and three of the Quantum Manifestation Season 1. It’s important in this situation in chaos to understand to learn the structure so you keep up by understanding that you are watching a holographic imprint and you’re the main character, you are in a virtual reality that is a game and you can build and open doors if you need something. If you learn the structure I guarantee you that you’ll be able to manoeuvre in this game, Because the Hong Kong situation, in every country, now has to go through its process, to pop up in front of people’s faces so people can wake up and take their freedom, basically, not take their freedom, but create their freedom (they correct it).

When you find yourself in “a situation”:
This is basically for everybody that finds themselves in a “situation”, keep up those stronger structures, know that it is a hologram, know that it is a process of Ascension. When you have a situation, always be the Best of yourself, of the Best of your abilities, because whatever you do at this moment, that’s what your projection in the quantum field and that’s what you’re shifting the next momentum into, this is a quantum bylaw. If you keep up with this, understand that more and more you do, it becomes more potent, which pops up like a situation of reality that you have everything you need even in the forest fire. Like you are playing a game, literally guys, I am not kidding what I’m saying no matter what you see, you think of hologram, train your consciousness to think that you are in a hologram life structure. I know it sounds crazy but that’s what it is. And if you keep doing that, you know what happens becomes easy and you’re not afraid. You’re actually free and have an understanding, and then’s it’s easy for you to play that structure, because you are not stopping by the fear vibrational sequence that is so potent and it is stronger than the joy, when not experiencing the joy, you are replacing it with the fear, that is going to create the same and then you cannot get out a whole situation for you to escape the forest, you are going to end up in the forest.

Google中文翻譯
從理事會通過Marina Jacobi。
這是香港的起點，我上次討論過，如果你們還記得的話，他們（理事會）現在才告訴我，但這只是香港為爭取自由而奮鬥的起點，而且還有很多事情要做，因為他們說，新一代將獲得自由。我沒有確切的方法，但是現在有更多的相同之處，它將在兩年內達到最佳性能。基本上，所有這些騷動都是來回的。
他們說，（理事會）最好的方法是觀察並在情況出現時以人性的名義成為“自己最好的”，如果您緊跟這一點並毫不恐懼地把握著知識的振動，那就理解無論發生什麼事情，您總是會被帶到安全的橋樑。因為基本上一樣，如果您不害怕的話，就像要投影它一樣。因此，無論發生什麼事情，您都轉過身來，無論發生什麼事情，您總是會得到食物，幫助和情況，這些都會為您帶來積極的結果。因此，請返回第1季的量子結構視頻。第1，第2和第3幅。在這種情況下，很重要的一點是要了解結構，以便您了解自己正在觀看全息圖像，並保持作為主要角色，您處於一個虛擬的遊戲世界中，可以根據需要建造和打開門。如果您了解了結構，我保證您可以在此遊戲中進行操作，因為每個國家的香港局勢現在都必須經過其過程，才能在人們的面前浮現，這樣人們才能醒來建立並獲得他們的自由，基本上，不是獲得他們的自由，而是創造他們的自由（他們糾正了自由）。
當您發現自己處於“情況”中時：
基本上，這適用於每個發現自己處於“狀況”，保持那些更堅固的結構，知道它是全息圖，知道它是提升過程的人。當您遇到某種情況時，始終要表現出自己的......
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