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1、TED英语演讲：我不是你们心目中的那个亚裔形象华裔姑娘Canwen _u来自中国南京，2岁时随父母移民到美国，目前在纽约哥伦比亚大学读书。她前阵子，她的TED演讲视频在社交媒体上引发热议。演讲中，她谈到作为一个少数族裔在美国面临的身份和种族问题。在最初失去自我以后，Canwen _u学会了反思自己的亚裔身份，渐渐褪去了当年的惶恐与不安，为自己的身份感到骄傲。下面是WTT为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：我不是你们心目中的那个亚裔形象，欢迎借鉴参考。我不是你们心目中的那个亚裔形象My name is Canwen, and I play both the piano and the violin.I
2、 aspire to some day be a doctor,and my favorite subject is calculus.My mom and dad are tiger parents,who wont let me go to sleepovers,but they make up for it by serving my favorite meal every single day.Rice.And Im a really bad driver.So my question for you now is,How long did it take you to figure
3、out I was joking?As youve probably guessed,today I am going to talk about race and Ill start off by sharing with you my story of growing up Asian-American.I moved to the United States when I was two years old, so almost my entire life has been a blend of two cultures.I eat pasta with chopsticks.Im a
4、ddicted to orange chicken, and my childhood hero was Yao Ming.But having grown up in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Idaho, all states with incredible little racial diversity, it was difficult to reconcilemy so-called e_otic Chinese heritage with my mainstream American self.Used to being the only As
5、ian in the room,I was self-conscious at the first thing people noticed about me was, that I wasnt white.And as a child I quickly began to realize that I had two options in front of me.Conformed to the stereotype that was e_pected of me,or conformed to the whiteness that surrounded me.There was no in
6、 between.For me, this meant that I always felt self-conscious about being good at maths, because people would just say it was because I was Asian,not because I actually worked hard.It meant that whenever a boy asked me out,it was because he had the yellow fever,and not because he actually liked me.I
7、t meant that for the longest time ，my identity had formed around the fact that I was different.And I thought that being Asian was the only special thing about me.These effects were emphasized by the places where I lived.Dont get me wrong.Only a small percentage of people were actually racist,or, eve
8、n borderline racist, but the vast majority werejust a little bit clueless.Now, I know you are probably thinking, Whats the difference?Well, here is an e_le.Not racist can sound like,Im white and youre not.Racist can sound like, Im white, youre not,and that makes me better than you.But clueless sound
9、s like,Im white, youre not,and I dont know how to deal with that.Now, I dont doubt for a second that these clueless people are still nice individuals with great intentions.But they do ask some questions that bee pretty annoying after a while.Here are a few e_les.Youre Chinese, oh my goodness,I have
10、a Chinese friend, do you know him?No.I dont know him.Because contrary to your unrealistic e_pectations, I do not know every single one of the 1.35 billion Chinese people who live on Pla Earth.People also tend to ask, Where does your name e from?,and I really dont know how to answer that,so I usually
11、 stick with the truth.My parents gave it to me.Where does your name e from?Dont even get me started on how many times people have confused me with a different Asian person.One time someone came up to me and said,Angie, I love your art work!And I was super confused,so I just thanked them and walked a
12、way.But, out of all the questions my favorite one is still the classic, Where are you from?,because Ive lived in quite a few places, so this is how the conversation usually goes.Where are you from?Oh, I am from Boise, Idaho.I see, but where are you really from?I mean, I lived in South Dakota for a w
13、hile.Okay, what about before that?I mean, I lived in North Dakota.Okay, Im just going to cut straight to the chase here, I guess what Im saying is,have you ever lived anywhere far away from here,where people talk a little differently?Oh, I know where you talking about,yes I have, I used to live in T
14、e_as.By then, they usually have just given up and wonder to themselves why Im not one of the cool Asians like Jeremy Lin or Jackie Chan,or they skip the needless banter and go straight for the,Where is your family from?So, just an FYI for all of you out there,that is the safest strategy.But, as amus
15、ing as these interactions were,oftentimes they made me want to reject my own culture,because I thought it helped me conform.I distanced myself from the Asian stereotype as much as possible,by degrading my own race,and pretending I hated math.And the worse part was, it worked.The more I rejected my C
16、hinese identity,the more popular I became.My peers liked me more,because I was more similar to them.I became more confident,because I knew I was more similar to them.But as I became more Americanized,I also began to lose bits and pieces of myself,parts of me that I can never get back, and no matter how much I tried to
