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, potential for being the greatest friendship you have ever had. See, Frank, he didn’t make it to a second year. And I had two new roommates in the second year, Stephen and Jason. And till this day, the three of us are the best friends. So going back to my analogy, of east and west, and roommates. Do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Stephen and Jason? And I think, in this year of 2013, we should all be striving for the later, shouldn’t we? I mean I am assuming that we all agree that this is the goal that we should all be strving for.Let’s look at where we are in reality. Recent headlines in the media include foreign policy magazine. Chinese victim conplex. Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid(多疑的) about the United States? Or the AFP, Agence France-Presse, human rights in China worsening US fines? Blumer says, in the cover of this magazine, Yes, The Chinese Army is Spying on You. ( And in such a great. I just want of negative fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just ’s ?dangerous, very dangerous. And what about how westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for westerners. The most common of which are “鬼佬”, in Cantonese, which means the “old devil”, “老外”, meaning the outsider in Madraine, “阿毛”, which means the “red hair one” in Taiwanese. The list goes on and on. So are these roommates headed for a best-friend relationship? I think we need a little help. And as China arises to be a global power, I think it’s more imperant than ever for us to be discerning about what we believe, because after all, I think that’s the purpose of a higher education. And that’s why we are here to be able to think for ourselves and make our own decisions. China is not just those headlines, the butgeoning(蓬勃发展的) economy, the unique politics. It’s not. Just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more. A billion people, with rich culture, amazing stories and as a product of both of those cultures. I want to help faster understanding between the two and help create that incredible relationship. Because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story willing to be told, willing to be unfold. And I am only having joking when I say love story because I believe it is, the stories that will save us, will bring us together. And my thesis statemtn for today’s talk is that, the relationship between the east and west needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture. That’“No language required in musical world.” That is power of music and that is the power of the heart. Through this promotion of arts, we can better understand that the culture and civilization of other people in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of music. Now the UN Secretary Journal said we need more music, and I think he is right. Music and arts have always played a key role in my life in building relationships, replacing what once was the hatred with acceptance, friendships and even love. So I have a strong keens in promoting misic between cultures because it happened to me early in life.I was born in Rochester in New York. I barely spoke a word of Chinese. I didn’t know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand. (I was. It’s true.) I was a American第2/5页that it breaks down the wall between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we are different. And in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just connecting with other, like Brian and I were connected through music. It was a powerful rool of influence and inspiration. Sam was my high school He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English. Sam scraped the floors and cleaned the bathrooms in our high school for twenty years. And he never talked to the kids and the kids never talked td Sam. But one day, before our opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me, holding a letter. And I was taking a back. I was taking, “Why is Sam approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I have kept to this day. It was scrolled in a shaky hand written in all capitals. And it read: “In all my years of working as a genitor at (), you are the first Asian boy to play the lead role. I am going to bring my six-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight. Because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.” And that letter just floored me. I was fifteen years old and I was absolutely stunned. That’s the first time I realized how music was so important.With Brian, music helped two kids who were initially enemies become friends. But with Sam, ’t even know in ways I can never imagine. I can’t tell how grateful I am, just to Sam, the genitor, to this day. He really is one of the people who helped me discover my life’s purpose. And I had no idea that something I did could mean more than I ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who第3/5页barely spoke English. Pop culture, music, and other methods of story teller, movies, TV dram
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