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演讲简介：
我们的生活，我们的文化，往往是不同故事的交集。小说家Chimamanda Adichie讲述了一个她寻求自己真实的文化嗓音的故事，并且告诫我们：如果我们只去聆听关于一个人、一个国家的单一故事，将会导致非常严重的误解。
adj. 无感觉的，无意识的，不省人事的
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- I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African.
- 我不得不强调，在我前往美国之前，我从来没有有意识地把自己当作个非洲人。
- But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me.
- 但在美国的时候，每当人们提到“非洲”时，大家都回转向我，
- Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia.
- 虽然说我对纳米比亚之类的地方一无所知。
- But I did come to embrace this new identity, and in many ways I think of myself now as African.
- 但我渐渐的开始接受这个新的身份。现在很多时候我都是把自己当作一个非洲人来看待。
- Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country,
- 不过当人们把非洲当作一个国家来讨论的时候，我还是觉得挺反感的。
- the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight from Lagos two days ago,
- 最近的一次例子就发生在两天前，我从拉各斯搭乘航班，旅程原本相当愉快，
- in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in "India, Africa and other countries."
- 直到广播里开始介绍在“印度、非洲以及其他国家”所进行的慈善事业。
- So, after I had spent some years in the U.S. as an African, I began to understand my roommate's response to me.
- 当我以一名非洲人的身份在美国度过几年之后，我开始理解我那位室友当时对我的反应。
- If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images,
- 如果我不是在尼日利亚长大，如果我对非洲的一切认识都来自于大众流行的影像，
- I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people,
- 我相信我眼中的非洲也同样是充满了美丽的地貌、美丽的动物、以及一群难以理解的人们，
- fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.
- 进行着毫无意义的战争、死于艾滋和贫穷、无法为自己辩护，并且等待着一位慈悲的、白种的外国人的救赎。
- I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family.
- 我看待非洲的方式将会和我儿时看待Fide一家的方式是一样的。
- This single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think, from Western literature.
- 我认为，关于非洲的这个单一故事从根本上来自于西方的文学。
- Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Lok,
- 这是来自伦敦商人John Locke的一段话。
- who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage.
- 他在1561年的时候曾游历非洲西部，并且为他的航行做了番很有趣的记录。
- After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses," he writes,
- 他先是把黑色的非洲人称为“没有房子的野兽”，随后又写到：
- "They are also people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts."
- “他们也是一群无头脑的人，他们的嘴和眼睛都长在了他们的胸口上。”
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