Chapter 361: Various Misunderstandings
Yang Meng was embarrassed to stand on the big podium, such a lecture hall was crowded with students. But what do you want to say?
Listening to Professor Tarim introduce himself in Arabic, Yang Meng regretted it: Liu Shaoshan asked the peacekeeping troops to give him a false identity to facilitate his walk in Libanen, but this seems to be a bit too high, otherwise other schools attach so much importance to themselves?
After Professor Tarim introduced Yang Meng, he stood directly beside Yang Meng as a translator, and then looked at Yang Meng expectantly, she also wanted to hear what Yang Meng would say.
With so many eyes staring at him, Yang Meng was also embarrassed and didn't know what to say.
Gotta don't be cowardly!
Yang Meng took a deep breath, pointed to his clothes and said, "Everyone knows by looking at my clothes that I am a Han man with good roots." As far as I know, the people who can give lectures here are dignitaries and celebrities from all over the world, and I may disappoint you. Well...... I'm not a celebrity, in my hometown, I own a restaurant, I also work in a hospital, by the way, I'm also a coach in a martial arts gym, and I ------ kung fu as you think! I'm an ordinary person, and I'm here to talk to youγγγγγγ Believe me, it's really hard for me, so let's change the way, I know that you are all very interested in Hanguo, so if you have anything you want to know about Hanguo, you can ask me, and I can answer all your doubts about Hanguo from the perspective of an ordinary person. β
After listening to Professor Tarim's translation, many of the students who were listening to the lecture raised their hands to indicate that they had a problem.
Tarim looked at Yang Meng, and Yang Meng smiled: "Professor Tarim, it's good for you to choose people, lest I just pick beautiful women and let male classmates say that I am biased." β
Tarim translated Yang Meng's words, and the scene burst into laughter.
A boy with glasses was pointed at by Tarim, he just wanted to ask Yang Meng but said first: "I'll say it first, I'm just a flat-headed commoner, don't ask me about any national affairs, political strategies or anything like that, I really can't answer!"
As a result, the boy with glasses said after hearing this: "But what I want to ask is this matter, many countries in the world say that the Han Kingdom is too dictatorial, I want to know how you feel as a common person?"
Yang Meng smiled: "Very good!"
"Good?" the boy puzzled.
Yang Meng nodded: "I really think it's good." Of course, what I say can only represent my own opinion. Not on behalf of anyone. Of course, you are not required to accept my point of view. If you don't want to hear it, you can listen to it as a joke. Anyway, everyone has their own ideas, and you can't expect everyone to think the same, and it is impossible for any country to make decisions that satisfy everyone. We Han people pay attention to 'the minority obeys the majority', and our decisions are always for the sake of the majority. It's definitely hurting some people, but it's a good thing from a national perspective. β
The boy in glasses asked, "But aren't you interfering with freedom of speech by not accepting the voices of the people?" Are you brainwashed?"
"Well, you could say I'm brainwashed, but I think most of us are 'statist'. Yang Meng said: "You can say anything, but what's the use of saying it? Use demonstrations, demonstrations, and other behaviors to express your attitude? What is the result? Let me give you an example: Today, some consumers say that eggs are too expensive, and then they demonstrate that eggs are cheap, and finally achieve the goal; tomorrow? Egg farmers say that eggs are sold too cheaply, and farmers can't survive, so they demonstrate again, and finally the price of eggs rises back, and the final result is that everything has not changed but there are two more demonstrations that disrupt social order! Egg buyers and egg farmers have expressed their opinions, while other ordinary people have become complete victims. Your country is indeed very disrespectful, and there are 18 recognized religions and many political parties ruling together, but who should you listen to when you want to make decisions? Hold meetings, study and legislateγγγγγγ A lot of time was wasted. Who is the unlucky one in the end? Or the common people? In our country, as long as it is beneficial to the country, it will be implemented as soon as possible. It is said that our country is developing rapidly, and this is the biggest reason. β
"Butγγγγγγ "The eye-eyed boy still wants to speak.
Yang Meng directly interrupted him: "I still say, I didn't ask you to accept my point of view, everyone has a different way of life and a different education, how can you see things the same way?" Well, I have one thing to say: my parents are farmers living in a mountain village, and they can never be described as rich, but I have never been hungry since I was a child, and I have not experienced any war. I think that one has enough food and one is safe, and these are the two most important things for people. And on both of these points, our country has done a good job. β
"Of course, I don't think it's easy to get into arguments because no mouth can really convince a pair of ears. I hope that if you have the opportunity, you will go to the Han Kingdom and judge with your own eyes, and you can not believe me. Just take a look for yourself and judge for yourselfγγγγγγγ When I came, I heard Zhang Wei tell me that if you want to go to school here, the tuition fee for a year will be 20,000 US dollars, so you are naturally not short of the 300 or 400 US dollars for air tickets, right?"
After listening to Yang Meng's words, there was applause at the scene.
As a result, another boy raised his hand and asked, "But we don't dare to go to Hanguo." β
"Why?" Yang Meng was confused.
"Most of us are believers, and I've heard that in Han we will be dragged out and shot if we have faith!" the man said.
Yang Meng: "γγγγγγ Dude, are you kidding? Are you a comedian in this school?"
It turned out that everyone was looking at him very seriously.
"Well, the number of people with religious beliefs in China is relatively low, but you can't stand the large population of China, right? At present, about one in seven people has a faith, and that is more than 200 million people. According to what you say, our country doesn't have so many bullets, right?" Yang Meng spread his hands and looked helpless: "If you really want to kill so many people, it will take several nuclear bombs to explode!" Alas, it's still the same sentence, let's go and see for yourself. How much misunderstanding you have about our country? As far as I know, many people in your country got rich by going to China to trade, and I said that this was not made up so that they wouldn't let you go to Han to get rich, right?"
After the laughter, a group of people raised their hands, and a little girl asked, "Doctor Yang, although there is no war in your place, but the lives of ordinary people are so dangerous, do you say that you are a kung fu master because of this?"
Yang Meng had a starry question mark on his face: "Why is it so dangerous? Han is one of the safest countries in the world." β
The girl continued: "I've seen your reports that people are chopping around with axes!
Yang Meng was completely stunned: "Where did you see it?"
"I HAVE PROOF!" THE GIRL TOOK THE IPAD AND OPENED A VIDEO FOR YANG MENG TO WATCH. Yang Meng looked at it, good guy, it was Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fuγγγγγγγ
"Girl, this is a movie! You don't watch a Marvel blockbuster and think that there is really an Iron Man in the world, right?" Yang Meng covered her face.
Next, Yang Meng answered all kinds of strange questions: we Han people don't ride horses to school every day, and of course, we don't ride pandas, Han people don't force everyone to learn martial arts, we have high-rise buildings, and we can marry foreignersγγγγγγ
These problems are not strange, and those who are embarrassed to brag about the Han Kingdom are even more headaches!
Some people say that the Han is the most powerful country in the world, because the Han people they know are very smart and very wealthy, and they have never seen poor Han people.
If I go, can people who have no money and are stupid go abroad?
"How do you explain the problem of you Han people eating dogs?" Yang Meng was just made his head hurt by these strange questions, and a very abrupt question made Yang Meng stunned.
He glanced at the person asking the question, and sure enough, it was Ruth, who was looking at him haughtily.
Yang Meng picked up the microphone and thought for a moment and asked, "Your name is Ruth, are you from the Stars and Stripes?"
Ruth was smug: "Exactly, is there a problem?"
Yang Meng asked, "Then do you know Jeffrey Dahmer?"
Ruth shook her head: "I haven't heard of it, what are you for?"
"Does anyone here know?" Yang Meng asked in a loud voice.
And one of the men next to Ruth said, "Isn't that the live-action version of Dr. Hannibal in the movie? Killed and ate seventeen people in four years." I studied psychomedicine and knew about him. β
"Thank you. Yang Meng said: "Then Jeffrey Dahmer is a native of the Stars and Stripes, can I say that the people of the Stars and Stripes eat people? Do you think it's interesting to 'label' people like this? Besides, do you know how the origin of the Han people eating dogs came about?"
Seeing that everyone was confused, Yang Meng stretched out two fingers: "More than 200 years ago, when transportation was inconvenient and communication was inconvenient, how did Western countries understand the Han Kingdom on the other side of the ocean? At that time, their way to understand our Han Kingdom was through two books, one called "General History of the Han Kingdom" and the other called "The Traveler of the Han Kingdom". These two books spread throughout the Western world starting from the newly founded Stars and Stripes, and everyone's knowledge of Han is through two stories written by hearsay that have not been to Han Kingdom. And today, 200 years later, your impression of Han as a college student of AUB is still stuck in 'eating dog meat', I don't know if it's your sadness or AUB's sadness. β
"You've been brainwashed!" Ruth looked proud: "I've read a lot of articles by scholars who have left the Han Kingdom, and they describe your Han Kingdom as extremely dark, and now it is really true." β