Chapter 481: Praise is right
While the "chubby girl incident" has caused a social sensation in China, it has also received strong media attention in the West.
As early as Ye Wei's blog about visiting the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa, sending supplies to children and showing movies, and calling on the world to care for African children, it has been reported by Western media, especially American media.
Children, charity, what is it equal to? Either they don't report it like the media that don't like Ye Wei, and of course there will be applause when they report it.
There are a few celebrities in the United States who do not do charity, and they usually have more or less charity deeds.
Some of these charities are moral, the United States has a community service culture, whether in universities or primary and secondary schools, students have participated in public service all year round, private is a must, public is more and more necessary, according to statistics, more than 60% of young people over the age of 12 in the United States have participated in various volunteer activities. Much of this spirit of helping others will continue.
There are also charity out of profit, it's too bad not to do charity these days, others do it, you don't do it, so what reputation is there to be a star?
It's become a kind of competition, not only in the United States, but also overseas, in poor countries and regions. CAA and other big brokerage companies have one-stop charity services.
But either way, there are two things that need to be done for charity, one is money and the other is time.
Like Ye Wei, who was finally reported by the media that "VIY went on vacation", it is not any tourist resort, but it is a poor and dangerous Africa, and a lot of money has to be thrown out.
Even if he is doing a show, not everyone is willing to do this show, and few people will do it.
Angelina Jolie went to Cambodia in 2000 to shoot "Tomb Raider", because the local refugees and blood and tears history were deeply touched, her outlook on life changed greatly, and she began to charity. First volunteered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and worked in two refugee camps in Africa and then in Cambodia and Pakistan within a year.
On August 27, 2001, she was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador by the UNHCR and has since visited refugee camps around the world every year, and has been fighting for war, peace, and calling on the world to care for refugees. She donated 1/3 of her income to refugees when she was single and, together with Brad Pitt, founded the Jolie-Pitt Charitable Foundation, which supports more than 30 charities.
In 2002, she adopted her first child, 7-month-old Makdos, from Cambodia, in 2005, she adopted a daughter, 6-month-old Saara from Ethiopia, and on May 27, 2006, she gave birth to her and Pitt's first daughter, Shaillo, in Namibia, Africa, and all the 4.1 million and 3.5 million from the sale of Shaillo's first photos to People and Hello! were donated to UNICEF so that the paparazzi would not get the money.
In recent days, Julie has publicly stated that if the "chubby girl" does not find her parents, she will adopt her.
She has also contributed to the practical actions, funding and achievements of ecological protection and community development, child migration and education, human rights and women's rights in Africa.
The relationship between Jolie, Jolie and Pitt is very controversial, she has never been a good girl, and she was a first-class rebel when she was young. But when people talk about her achievements in charity and humanitarian causes, they will give two thumbs up.
Whoever wants to grab these applause from her has to do exactly what she did.
Compared with Julie, Ye Wei's current charity achievements are still far behind.
Is there anyone who wasn't rebellious when he was young, who wasn't controversial, and who was philanthropic? Of course there were, like Audrey Hepburn in her later years.
Like Amy Rosen, in 2008, at the age of 22, she served as the official face of the world's most influential breast cancer prevention campaign, Pink Ribbon, and was also an ambassador for YouthAIDS, an international non-profit organization that provides humanitarian assistance to the world. In 2009, she was at the forefront of a street march protesting against the right to anti-gay marriage Proposition 8. In 2012, she joined the Natural Resources Defense Board (NRCB) and contributed to the environmental protection work of Global Green-USA. She has been contributing to the protection of stray pets, wildlife rescue, etc.
It's all non-profit work, there's money to be paid, and there's a lot of work to be done. Like the official spokesperson of "Pink Ribbon", he will do this from August to the end of the year, and other actresses of the same age will not stop, they are all working hard for the screen career to seize the mountain. However, this was not a problem for Rosen, who suddenly retired in early 2006.
Commenting on being the spokesperson, Amy Rosen said: "I am grateful for this opportunity to help young women raise awareness about breast cancer, and I hope to encourage women like me to become more aware of the disease and to live a healthy life." I am proud to support Susan Koeman's commitment to ending breast cancer progression. ”
All charities and foundations, only I know whether they are sincere or not, but even if the rich people only do the activities of foundations and celebrities in order to avoid taxes and fame, people still do things. There is a consensus among the media and the public on this, everything is one thing, and charity is praised.
Ye Wei, the 18-year-old "sunshine villain", no one thought that he would run to the North Pole, and no one thought that he would run to Africa.
A trip to the North Pole and a video of a polar bear terrorizing the world went viral, a trip to Africa was applauded by the media, and supporters were touched by his photographs of the slums and savannahs: a little black girl standing in the frame of a dilapidated house looking directly at the camera, flashing innocent black eyes and smiling faces, a group of children playing a strip of soccer ball on a mud puddle, and a mother elephant rubbing her nose against a baby elephant in the sunset......
It looks like he's been reborn in Africa. TMZ and other entertainment gossip sites have exclaimed: "VIY really paid attention?"
When Hanshan's poem was translated, Ye Wei believed in Buddhism?
A young genius, at the age of 19, he decided to find the "true meaning of the East", from hippies to Zen people, from debauchery to heart like water, to Indian practice, almost became a monk, believed in Zen Buddhism, strict vegetarianism, bathed once a week and stinky days, did not undergo modern medical surgery in the early stage of pancreatic cancer, used spiritual therapy, dietary therapy, herbal therapy, and even psychic witch doctors, "I don't want them to cut my body open." "Dragging out the surgery, delaying the best time for treatment, perfectionist, idealist, said Steve Jobs.
Zen is the dream or conjecture of hippies.
Ye Wei's public religious beliefs have always been strange and contradictory "atheist + pantheist", and people gradually understand that this kid seems to believe in everything, God also believes, Buddha also believes, God also believes, and saints also believe, but he seems to believe nothing. A Hanshan poem tells his heart to participate in Zen and go to China.
The praise received by this translated poem is not as much as the exclamation of female fans: "VIY, don't become a monk!"
However, things soon took a 180-degree turn, and just when Ye Wei seemed to be about to fight with the world, the "fat girl incident" happened.
It's children and charity again, China's human rights issues!
There are street children in developing countries, and the problem of abduction occurs all over the world, so this is not a conventional tool for the West to attack China, but this time it is different, Ye Wei has opened up the situation, whether it is with political goals or not, the Western mainstream media have questioned China's human rights situation.
Ye Wei didn't pay any attention, his attitude was made clear in "Let the Baby Go Home", that is, he wanted these voices to scold the "officials and masters", and scolded them so much that they had to do something.
But at the same time, he was also scolded, and some right-wing media in the United States accused him of being too close to China, and some of his remarks were like treason.
This war of words doomed the right-wing forces to defeat from the very beginning.
The United States is a country of immigrants, dual citizenship is too common, there are new immigrants, there is Angelina Jolie like the United States + Cambodia. Ye Wei is talking about himself the United States + China, not the first time he has said this, he has always had a clear position on Sino-US relations, which is common all over the world: "World peace, never war." ”
It is precisely because of the threat to the United States that China's rise has made these saliva spat.
But VIY is not talking about politics and doing not bad things, but very good things for humanitarianism. The right-wing forces simply cannot accuse him of taking care of China's street children, and the so-called "Ye Wei does not love the United States" is also full of subjectivity, and the left-wing media have angrily accused the right-wing of politicizing Ye Wei's kindness, which is a racial persecution of a young man.
Ye Wei hasn't responded yet, and some left-wingers can't sit still.
Oliver Stone, a 60-year-old man who fought in the Vietnam War when he was young, began to focus on anti-war and anti-American for 30 years after the war. The most famous and influential are naturally the Vietnam War trilogy "Field Platoon", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Heaven and Earth", as well as "Wall Street", "Assassination of Kennedy", "Nixon Biography", etc., which won the Oscar for Best Director twice (Oscar total of 3 awards, 8 unsuccessful nominations).
He is not pro-American, not pro-China, and is objectively short-tempered in everything. He once angered the Chinese community with his screenplay "Year of the Dragon" (1985), but he was one of the producers of Wang Ying's "The Joy Luck Club" (1993). In 2013, in a speech in Hiroshima, Japan, he criticized Japan as a "bully" and a lackey of the United States, criticized the Japanese government's attitude of tampering with history, and should apologize to China and even the whole of Asia.
As soon as the opinion came, he dared to scold anyone, and when the scandal in the United States came out, there must be Oliver Stone. No, "Snowden", directed and written by him, was released in 2016.
In early September 2006, he denounced to the Los Angeles Times the persecution of Ye Wei by right-wingers, which was completely contrary to the so-called universal values propagated by the United States, full of lies, and very disgusting.
The 76-year-old Beat King Gary Snyder, who usually lives in seclusion in the mountains and forests, praised Ye Wei's good deeds and said, "We are all children of nature, and only when all living beings are in harmony and understand what the Buddha says about the four things are empty, can we truly be free." ”
And on September 2, Ye Wei wrote a response on his blog: "This is really inexplicable! I don't want people with ulterior motives to make this bastard bigger, to put it simply, where I am charity has nothing to do with politics, if I have superhuman strength, I will go wherever I am needed, the whole world will go, I will have it in the end." ”
However, the secrets are all in support of VIY, and the objective neutrals also support him this time, because it is his freedom to love China, and China is not a political party, how many "Snyder" people love it, and not let a Chinese American love it? He has done less charity in the United States? Praise is right!
Ye Weifang's momentum is huge, and the right-wing media and the blacks can only end hastily, originally they just wanted to sour, what can they do, there is no place in the world that is so ununified as the United States.
After making a fuss, in fact, the people who still like Ye Wei continue to like it, and they like it more, and the people who hate Ye Wei continue to hate it, and they hate it even more.
And most young people don't care about these at all, they only know that VIY even dares to provoke polar bears, and they are keen on charity, which is really cool.