公眾人物畢業(yè)演講(MP3+字幕)第65期:金墉美國東北大學(4)

They fell in love, married

他們墜入愛河 締結良緣

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

I was born in Seoul and when I was five

我出生在首爾 在我五歲時

my family moved back to the United States

我們舉家搬回到美國

and we eventually settled in Muscatine, Iowa

我們最終定居在愛荷華州的馬斯卡廷

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

我的母親在愛荷華大學研修哲學博士學位

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公正的影響

we watched the civil rights and anti-war movements

我們看到民權和反戰(zhàn)運動

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

在愛荷華州一個小鎮(zhèn)的經典的韓裔美籍家庭中成長的經歷

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

我們完全接受了在這個偉大國家中心地帶的生活

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 當時最受歡迎的一個節(jié)目是《功夫》

the story of a former Shaolin priest

故事講的是一個少林和尚

half-American, half-Chinese

一半美國血統(tǒng) 一半中國血統(tǒng)

who comes to the United States to find his American father

到美國來尋找他的美國父親

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荷華州屬于外人

at least the bully kids left us alone

但至少愛欺負人的孩子不招惹我們

because they thought all Asians knew Kung Fu

因為他們認為所有的亞洲人都會功夫

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

甚至我妹妹 她到愛荷華州的時候才只有三歲