Chapter 725: I Have a Dream
A 22-year-old Chinese celebrity serving as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and attending the UN's World Youth Forum is quite shocking. After the award ceremony, some media reporters went online to check the official websites of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Youth Forum, only to find that Xiao Yao's English name appeared in the introduction of the activity process on the official website of this organization and this event.
After confirming that it was correct, many media also reported the news, and many online media also directly posted screenshots of Xiao Yao's name on two official websites.
Some netizens are faster than media reporters. Every year, the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony is broadcast live by CCTV's movie channel. Before the award ceremony ended, the news of Xiao Yao's absence from the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony because he went to the United Nations to participate in the Youth Forum appeared on the Internet.
By the next day, the news of netizens had been fermented overnight, coupled with media reports, and Huaxia's Internet also exploded because of this news.
Compared with the annual "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony in China, of course, the opportunity to go to the United Nations is even more rare. The World Youth Forum held by the United Nations is not the same day as the "Golden Dragon Award" in China, but the distance between the two is very close, and Xiao Yao also has an appointment ceremony of UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, so it is no wonder that Xiao Yao was absent from the "Golden Dragon Award" award ceremony. However, it is precisely because the opportunity to show his face at the United Nations activities is very rare, and the public is also extra concerned about the performance of Xiao Yao, a young Chinese star, at the United Nations activities.
The topics that the public is concerned about are naturally the topics that media reporters want to pursue, but the activities of the United Nations are not just for any journalist to be qualified to cover and report. There is only one day left before the World Youth Forum is held, and even those large and serious media that are qualified to go to the United Nations to cover and report immediately send reporters to New York, and it is too late to apply.
Fortunately, the media doesn't have to do it just by interviewing them in person. The activities of the United Nations are certainly reported by the media, and when the time comes, everyone and others will report on it, and then reprint the report. Therefore, many media in China, like the public, are waiting for the relevant reports to come out.
Xiao Yao is participating in the United Nations World Youth Forum as a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme, so the appointment ceremony of the UNEP Goodwill Ambassador of Xiao Yao was held before the World Youth Forum.
The headquarters of the United Nations is in New York, USA, but the headquarters of UNEP is not in New York, but in Perone, the capital of Kenya, Africa. In the past, UNEP appointed Goodwill Ambassadors at its headquarters, but this time, because Xiao Yao was going to attend the World Youth Forum, the appointment ceremony was not held at UNEP headquarters in Perone, but at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where the World Youth Forum was held.
Although not at UNEP headquarters, the process of the appointment ceremony was no different from that of previous appointments held at Headquarters, which itself is an organization of the United Nations.
Overall, the appointment ceremony of the Goodwill Ambassadors is not very interesting to the general public.
Relevant media reports introduced the entire process of the appointment ceremony, and also introduced Xiao Yao's contributions in the field of environmental protection. At the appointment ceremony, Xiao Yao made a simple speech. However, judging from some media reports, Xiao Yao's speech seems to be very official, and there is nothing special about it, the only thing that makes Chinese reporters feel gratified is probably that Xiao Yao's English speech is very fluent and smooth. To say that Xiao Yao's biggest contribution in the field of environmental protection is actually mainly the animated film with an environmental theme.
If it were any other celebrity, just being able to speak calmly and fluently in English at the appointment ceremony of the United Nations Environment Programme was already something worth bragging about. But for Xiao Yao, he was an exchange student in the United States for a year in high school, participated in a police press conference in the United States, played a cameo role in American dramas, participated in the behind-the-scenes filming of the Eva Show and the Eva Swimsuit Special, and I don't know how many times I have been to the Eva Show, and I have been a guest performer, and I have experienced so many things.
So, for Chinese fans who have seen the film, the only attraction of the ceremony is Xiao Yao's wearing a ring with the United Nations badge and a "goodwill ambassador", holding a letter of appointment and shaking hands with the head of UNEP.
Of course, just this news and these photos are enough to make Xiao Yao's fans and ordinary people in China happy. After all, this is a United Nations event, not a commercial event or a variety show, and it is impossible for Xiao Yao to perform a show or something on that occasion.
However, what Xiao Yao's fans, the media and the public in China did not expect was that at the World Youth Forum held later, Xiao Yao still gave many people a big surprise.
The World Youth Forum is not an UNEP event, but an initiative initiated by the Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations Office of Youth, and others. At the forum, there were not only topics related to environmental protection, but also a series of topics such as economy, energy, education, hunger and poverty eradication, and sustainable development.
Xiao Yao was given the opportunity to speak at the forum, and as a goodwill ambassador for UNEP, his speech was of course also related to environmental protection.
Although Xiao Yao wants to make a speech on environmental protection, but in his capacity as a goodwill ambassador, he does not need to put forward any specific feasible solutions to environmental problems, those things are problems that professionals called "scientists" need to solve, what he needs to do is to express his position and appeal, so that more people pay attention to this issue. Therefore, Xiao Yao's task is not to make a report at the forum, but to make a speech.
The speeches at the World Youth Forum were prepared by themselves. When Xiao Yao came to the United States, he only brought an assistant with him, and he did not bring anyone to help him write the speech. Although Xiao Yao has the status of a director and screenwriter, the UNEP still arranged for someone to write a speech for him, considering his status as an entertainment star.
For Xiao Yao, who has no problem with his English proficiency and has a super memory, it is very easy to memorize such a speech and go to the forum to talk about it when the time comes, but Xiao Yao did not accept the kindness of the UNEP and found himself in some trouble.
Speaking of speeches, the first thing that popped up in Xiao Yao's mind was the famous speech "I Have a Dream" delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in his previous life.
Xiao Yao's speech at the World Youth Forum was only a few minutes, not ten minutes like Martin Luther King Jr. in his previous life, but Xiao Yao did not intend to copy the full text of "I Have a Dream" in his previous life. Xiao Yao has no impression of most of the previous content, but he has a special feeling for the next few paragraphs that begin with "I Have A Dream". If you omit the first paragraph of the original text and keep only the last few paragraphs, the length of the speech can be just right.
Although the content of that speech was about the equality of black nationalities in the United States, Xiao Yao felt that changing the United States to the world and the issue of ethnic equality to environmental protection should also give people a very deep impression in such a sentence and structure.
So Xiao Yao turned down the UNEP offer of a speech about his own experience, and instead spent one night producing an environmentally friendly version of "I Have A Dream."
In an occasion such as the World Youth Forum, there is no room for nonsense, and the content of all speakers' statements is subject to review. As a goodwill ambassador of UNEP, Xiao Yao's speech had to be reviewed by the UNEP people.
When Xiao Yao put his speech in front of the relevant person in charge of UNEP, the eyes of the UNEP people widened in disbelief. The performance of the relevant person in charge of UNEP was due to the fact that the speech was more than he expected. Later, when it was submitted to the relevant person in charge of the World Youth Forum for review, of course, it was undoubtedly passed.
Xiao Yao's speech at the World Youth Forum was not delivered in front of countless people in an outdoor place like Martin Luther King Jr. in his previous life, but in front of dozens of people in an indoor forum, and the content and length of the entire speech cannot be compared with that of Martin Luther King Jr. in his previous life. But on such an occasion, Xiao Yao successfully shocked many people at the scene through his speech.
An off-script speech isn't anything special. Although there were not many youth delegates who gave unscripted speeches at the World Youth Forum, it was not for nothing, and Xiao Yao did not attract much attention when he walked onto the podium empty-handed. But the thing about Xiao Yao's speech is not that it is out of script, but the content of the speech and his state at the time of the speech. The whole process of the speech can be said to be full of emotion and sound, especially as soon as the first few paragraphs of "IHaveADream" came out, the eyes of all the people who watched Xiao Yao's speech on the scene changed. Before Xiao Yao's speech ended, some people at the scene couldn't wait to give Xiao Yao a round of applause.
At the World Youth Forum, Xiao Yao was not the only youth representative who spoke, but in the middle of the speech, there was applause only those expert speakers who spoke at length on various topics. After Xiao Yao's entire speech, the applause at the scene was obviously much warmer than others.
The World Youth Forum is divided into a main forum and a sub-forum, each with a different theme, and will last for a total of three days. Originally, Xiao Yao only spoke at the sub-forums on the topics of environment, energy and gender equality, but the evening after his speech, the organizers told him to give another speech at the main forum the next day.
In the next day's speech, Xiao Yao's speech was a few minutes longer than the day before.
Xiao Yao knew that he was able to get such an opportunity because his version of "I Have a Dream" on environmental issues was particularly effective, so he did not write another speech, but added some content to the previous day's speech to accommodate a longer speech. Of course, those paragraphs of "IHaveADream" are the core of the speech, and Xiao Yao will not easily revise them, but only add some content before and after. With the version of his previous life, it didn't take too much time for Xiao Yao to change it.
In the speech on the second day, Xiao Yao's performance was still very exciting. Due to the larger number of people on the main forum and the higher attention it received, the extended version of "I Have a Dream" also aroused a stronger response on the main forum.
During the World Youth Forum, the organizers will make official records of the whole process, and some media outlets that have obtained the reporting qualifications will also take pictures and records on the spot. Therefore, Xiao Yao's two speeches have video materials recorded.
After Xiao Yao attended the World Youth Forum, videos of his two speeches soon appeared on the Internet in China. When these two videos appeared on the Internet of Huaxia, they really shocked the media and netizens of Huaxia. Various media and netizens have reported, forwarded, commented and discussed the two videos of Xiao Yao's speeches at the World Youth Forum, which not only spread quickly on the Internet in China, but also appeared in the news programs of some TV stations.
In fact, there are many celebrities or celebrities in China who serve as goodwill ambassadors in various organizations around the world, and they have participated in various world-class activities, but there is no celebrity and celebrity who has made speeches and speeches at such events as Xiao Yao's speech video has been so widely and so popular in China in such a short period of time.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, because of Xiao Yao's own fame. In Huaxia, among the stars under the age of 30, Xiao Yao is definitely the most well-known one in Huaxia, and if it is put in the world, I am afraid that only a few international superstars such as Zhou Hu can surpass him.
Of course, another more important reason is because of the content of Xiao Yao's two speech videos.
In these two videos, Xiao Yao's speech is really wonderful. In particular, the speeches that begin with "IHaveADream" are simply deafening. Whether it is from the content of the speech, or from the expression of emotions, expressions, and body movements during the speech, it can almost be used as a model textbook for speeches. Just after these two speech videos circulated, there were really speech experts who made some careful analysis and comments on Xiao Yao's extended version of the speech video.
And most importantly, the provenance of these two videos is not only from some Chinese media that participated in the coverage of the World Youth Forum, the latter longer speech video also appeared on the official website of the World Youth Forum. In other words, the organizers of the World Youth Forum have especially recognized Xiao Yao's speech as the image representative of the World Youth Forum. This kind of treatment is something that even many foreign international first-line stars have never had.
Even the official World Youth Forum took Xiao Yao's speech video of "I Have a Dream" as a façade and hung it on the official website, how could Xiao Yao's speech video not be popular in China?
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