TA的每日心情 | 慵懒 2020-7-26 05:11 |
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我读书读到德国移民,印象最深的是Benjamin Franklin对他们的攻击,那些话将其中的德国人换成墨西哥人的话,在美国今天移民问题辩论中还可以听到。里面的种族主义,现在属于政治不正确,公开的言论已经很少听到了,但是私下里持这种观点的人还是不少。* Z$ Q3 J S" l" E# z6 }7 P S' Z
; ~) H- w8 r7 D! A3 \0 g% `Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. 9 ^' E! t* y; g* J0 [ \) }
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Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. ( J5 I+ D" I' c
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Amish人来自瑞士,不过是说德语,因此算是德国人也行。他们属于再洗礼派,遭受迫害,因此移民来到美国。我去年看过一部关于Amish人的纪录片,很感兴趣,还读了一本书。有机会写篇文章,贴上来。Amish人相信耶稣说的非暴力,即使有人拿着枪去屠杀他们,也不会暴力反抗。Amish人并不反对公立学校教育,尤其是零散居住的Amish家庭同样有不少送孩子到公立学校就读。不过由于他们觉得现代文明没有什么用处,因此他们的孩子在8年纪后就退学,很少有人读高中或者是大学的。1972年最高法院判决由于宗教自由的宪法权利,州政府无权强制要求他们的孩子就读高中。看看纪录片里Amish人的生活,我觉得现代文明不一定真能给人带来额外的幸福。. I& Y2 R6 i: G9 e
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