Chapter 145: Everything We Share
After Bai Yesong finished his introduction, everyone at the dinner table was a little silent for a while.
Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhongjun, and Tang He all heard this for the first time, and they immediately couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Yu Minhong and a few of them had already heard Bai Yesong talk about this before, but how could everyone come up with a novel idea for a while.
Moreover, even if they stay abroad for a long time, the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, as well as the deep, bottomless chasm, will always exist, but most of them will turn a blind eye.
Otherwise, how can people come back and start their own businesses?
There is an essential difference between Chinese and Western cultures, coupled with the arrogance and contempt of Westerners......
It is undoubtedly a very difficult thing to get a high score in such a propositional essay.
To make a propaganda film that promotes the theme of the CCTV international channel, it is also necessary to make Westerners not disgusted, and even willing to accept this channel......
It's really hard!
Don't look at Yu Minhong, they didn't mention this matter to Bai Yesong much before, in fact, these people have been thinking about it in their hearts, but everyone really doesn't have any good ideas and ideas for a while.
At this time, Wang Zhongjun spoke.
He held his cheeks, and said slowly while thinking: "There are so many cultural landscapes and beautiful scenery in China, why don't you find a film crew to shoot some video screens, and then add some advertising slogans......"
As the owner of Huayi Brothers Advertising Company, Wang Zhongjun is naturally not a layman, so he shook his head first as he spoke.
On the side, Wang Qiang rolled his eyes: "The focus of the promotional video is to introduce the international channel and pull it to the scenery...... Isn't it a promotional video introducing China......"
Bai Yesong also smiled bitterly: "Mr. Wang, I thought of this idea a long time ago. Not to mention the scenery, I even thought about introducing the economic achievements of China's current development in the promotional video...... Let people of all ages in China, and even people from other countries, wear Chinese costumes and blow the conch in the promotional video......"
"These routines are too old!" Feng Xiaogang interjected, "You can't do this......"
"Director Feng, do you have an idea?" Bai Yesong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but ask eagerly.
Feng Xiaogang shook his head and said with some embarrassment: "You can find a few well-known Chinese people in North America to talk about peace and tolerance to those foreigners around the theme of the international channel, it is far better than this idea...... As for other creative ...... This one...... I hadn't thought of it yet. ”
At this time, Xu Xiaoping on the side sighed, he rubbed the empty wine glass on the table, looked at Bai Yesong and muttered: "Xiaobai, don't say that everyone doesn't help you, it's really powerless for my brothers! Don't look at my brothers who have been in the United States for several years, but it is the experience of these years that has made me understand a truth - Chinese people can only be free from discrimination on the land of China!"
Speaking of this, Xu Xiaoping turned his head and glanced at Yu Minhong, and then continued to say to Bai Yesong: "You don't know, many Americans like to discriminate against us Chinese, not to mention us, even those native-born Chinese Americans can't escape...... Discrimination is everywhere!That's why I will return to China and start a business with Lao Yu......"
Xu Xiaoping's words made several New Oriental teachers with study abroad experience echo them.
Mr. Li, who had dealt with Tang He in Bingzhou, said: "And I found that the more uneducated and uninformed people are, the more they like to discriminate against others." ”
In order to illustrate his own views, Mr. Li also gave examples from his own personal experience.
"I've been in the U.S. for six years, and most of the time I've met people who are nice and polite, but sometimes it's inevitable that we'll meet some foreigners who discriminate against us," he said.
The school where I did my PhD was in a small town.
The school served a buffet and was clocked in by an old black woman.
She deliberately didn't greet me every time, and I could feel that clearly.
It's just that we have nothing to do with an uneducated black lady.
Once, I was waiting for my friend in the cafeteria and I smiled at her.
Maybe it's a bit of a long time, but she can't help but ask me: here are you come from?
I replied China, and then she immediately put on a proud look that I knew, and asked me in a pitiful tone: You must be really happy to come here. Do you still ant to ever go back?
You don't know, I wanted to curse at the time.
I asked her: I'm sorry, hat do you mean?
She said: Is much better here than China...... I was shocked!
You must know that the school where I studied for my PhD is very remote, to put it bluntly, it is a village in our Huaxia. Let's not mention big cities like Washington and New York, but the villagers of your small village dare to say that they are better than Huaxia?
Are you kidding me!
Don't say anything about Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, just find a second-tier or third-tier city, and kill you in seconds!
And that old black lady actually thinks There is better than China...... It's speechless!"
Teacher Li's words drove everyone's emotions, so for a while, everyone began to slander.
Liu Yingjian looked at this, then at that, a little stunned.
He had never been abroad, so he didn't feel it deeply.
However, he soon found out that Tang He, the kid, didn't accompany everyone to complain, but vigorously stuffed the dishes in his mouth with chopsticks.
Liu Yingjian couldn't help laughing.
What a little slippery head!
Liu Yingjian had a good impression of Tang He.
Don't look at Tang He's young age, but he is quite good at getting things done.
As the nominal protagonist today, Tang He did not leave anyone present in the cold, either talking to this or toasting to that, quite a bit of a veteran in the workplace, making it easy to ignore his age.
In other words, everyone didn't eat much just now, and most of the time they were drinking and chatting. Because this kind of occasion is actually a place to connect with feelings, eating is really not important.
However, after Wang Zhongjun and Feng Xiaogang came in, this scene was broken.
After these two people came in, the dinner had actually begun to shift towards those two, especially Bai Yesong, who also threw out such a topic.
Then this kid took the opportunity to steal it!
Most people know that drinking alcohol, if you drink it after you are full, it is not easy to get drunk, at least you will drink a lot more than on an empty stomach.
It can be seen that Tang He's young age is not considered, but the experience in the wine field is unusually sophisticated.
Thinking of this, a bad idea suddenly popped up in Liu Yingjian's mind.
So, he picked up the wine glass on the table and drew a half-arc around the table, and when he saw that it attracted the attention of several people around him, he looked at Tang He diagonally opposite with a smile and asked, "Xiao Tang, seeing that you are not slow, do you have any ideas?" Say it and listen to it...... Let Brother Bai refer to it!"
And at this time, Tang He was busy.
He spreads a pancake in his left hand and holds two thin pieces of duck dipping sauce with chopsticks in his right hand.
It is said that the roast duck in this restaurant is quite authentic.
Hearing Liu Yingjian's words, he froze there.
Tang He looked up and looked around, and saw that everyone was looking at him, he didn't panic, first said a little wait, and then continued to put the duck meat dipped in sauce in the pancake in his left hand, and sandwiched a few cucumbers and green onions, and then rolled them up and chewed them slowly.
waited until he finished eating, Tang He interjected with the wet wipes on the table, leaned back in the chair, looked at Bai Yesong and said seriously: "Brother Bai, I do have an idea...... But I don't have any intention of promoting Huaxia in this idea, so I don't know if you dare to use it......"
"Don Jr., you come and hear it. Bai Yesong was also sick and rushed to the doctor, and he didn't feel that Tang He's mouth was hairless and unstable.
Among the crowd, only Yu Minhong and Teacher Li, who had confessed to Tang He, immediately became interested when they heard Tang He say this.
Liu Yingjian was a little curious because he didn't see Tang He's embarrassment, and he was also very interesting in his heart.
And people like Wang Qiang, Xu Xiaoping, Wang Zhongjun and others are careless.
Although everyone is kind on the face, in the bottom of their hearts, they still have some distrust of Tang He because of his age.
Feng Xiaogang sneered in his heart.
I can't even think of a way, what kind of bad idea can a little kid have!
Since the release of "Party A and Party B" in December 1997, Feng Dadao has gained the greatest fame and prestige in his life.
Don't look at him, a descendant of the northwest, who went to the capital to be flattering to the bigwigs in the Beijing circle, Wang Shuo and others, but Feng Dadao thinks very highly of himself, except for a limited number of people, he is no longer convinced.
Even if you already know that Tang He has opened a company, what can you do?
Business and the literary and artistic circles and the cultural circle are two different things!
Hearing that Bai Yesong wanted to hear his thoughts, Tang He nodded.
He stood up and explained while arranging the dishes on the table: "This idea was actually inspired by the words of Teacher Xu Xiaoping and Teacher Li just now......
Waiting for a large space to be vacated on the dining table in front of him, Tang He looked at everyone and said: "It's actually easy to classify people, for example, this dish is 'we'." ”
As he spoke, Tang He put the plate containing duck meat on a corner of the empty dining table.
Then he picked up the plate with the sweet noodle sauce and placed it next to the duck plate, saying, "This dish is 'them'." ”
In this way, Tang He put the dishes that had just been put aside and put them back in turn.
While putting it, he chanted some words at the same time.
The plate containing the precious sunflower chicken was put down, and he said, "This is the 'high-income group'." ”
Putting down the plate with the tips of the stir-fried peas, he said, "This is 'a group of people who are living in difficulty and barely going hungry.'" ”
The plate of Jiangnan sweet and sour chops was put down, and he said, "This is 'someone we trust'." ”
Nestle Duck Treasure put down his plate and he said, "This is 'the person we try to avoid.'" ’”
The plate of cherry foie gras was put down, and he said, "This is 'foreigner'." ”
The cage drawer containing the roast duck pancakes was lowered, and he said, "This is the 'Chinese people'." ”
Putting down the plate with cucumbers and green onions, he said, "This is 'a man from the country'." ”
Kung Pao Shrimp Ball's plate was put down, and he said, "This is 'someone who has never seen a movie'." ”
The plate of bean pepper calf cubes was put down, and he said, "This is 'people of faith.'" ”
The plate of chestnut-roasted cabbage was put down, and he said, "This is 'a man full of self-confidence'." ”
When all the plates were put back again, Tang He looked up at the people who were confused but were deeply attracted by his movements, pointed to the dishes on the table, and said seriously: "Each dish on the table represents a collection of people with a kind of label, if we remove all these labels with social attributes and reclassify them...... What would be the result?"
Tang He looked at the people who were deep in thought, and Bai Yesong, who suddenly scratched his ears and cheeks, and gave an example with a smile: "For example, 'there is someone you like'? For example, 'someone who just had sex this week'? For example, 'someone who feels lonely'?"
Tang He took out a pancake from the cage drawer representing the 'Chinese people', sandwiched a few pieces of duck meat from the duck plate representing 'we', a few green onion pieces from the plate representing the countrymen, and a piece of foie gras from the cherry foie gras plate representing the 'foreigner', then rolled them together and ate them.
In fact, this idea is not Tang He's own idea, but from a promotional film he watched in his previous life.
In the previous life, Danish public television invited a group of Danes with a huge span of age, social identity, and experience to the TV station to shoot on the scene, and the producers started from their "differences" and helped them find their "similarities".
This activity of seeking common ground while reserving differences revealed the expectation of peace and tolerance, which deeply touched Tang He.
When he heard Mr. Li's experience just now, he couldn't help but recall this short film.
Now it's time to pick flowers and offer Buddha.
"Holy!"
The first to react was Feng Xiaogang.
Feng Xiaogang stood up from his chair with a pout.
He stared at Tang He with blazing eyes, and he was extremely surprised in his heart.
As a director, Director Feng undoubtedly has extremely sensitive artistic attainments and keen insight.
He saw the theme that Tang He wanted to express.
People are born with various social labels, and it is easy to create inherent stereotypes and classifications, such as identity, income, appearance, ......
Every small society has its own limitations, and it is inevitable to be limited and defined by its own small society, so it is understandable.
However, in order to become a more complete person, you must have the ability to love and love others, and you must try to get rid of these limitations, and first find what you value most and what you want to grow up like when you are an unlabeled "individual".
These things are either innate, or they are related to the heart and emotion, and they allow people to understand each other across cultural barriers, so that culture can resonate beyond time and space, and so that resonance is not limited or even crosses species.
Stripped of the stereotypes and categorizations, and categorized by more primitive and direct personal real feelings, then all people are actually the same.
For example, you feel lonely, you want to be brave, you have love......
Under such a label, there will be no more outliers at all!
This is the special peace!
That's how inclusive it is!
Love knows no bounds!
Where the hell did this kid come from?
Feng Xiaogang looked at Tang He, who was still chewing the burrito, and was very curious.
"I thought of it!"
Bai Yesong finally made Tang He's thoughts clear.
He stood up excitedly, came to Tang He's side in two steps, and hugged Tang He in his arms, almost making Tang He choke.
"Tang He, your idea is amazing, how does your head grow!"
Bai Yesong couldn't help rubbing Tang He's head, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Tang He's idea was very good.
The idea completely breaks down national and geographical boundaries and does not cause any misunderstandings. It is no longer limited to the limitations of one country, one place and one race, and the height of the field of vision is simply incomparable!
At this time, everyone else also understood the deep meaning of Tang He's idea.
Everyone was amazed.
Wang Qiang's personality is a little indisputable, so he can understand Tang He's thoughts very well.
He sighed and said: "Tolerance is not an irrational overflow of the heart of Mary, let alone doing evil in the name of great love, true tolerance always contains a love for human beings......"
"That's right, how difficult it is, how powerful it is......" Wang Zhongjun's eyes flashed with a gleam in the corner of his eyes, and he agreed.