【中英文演讲稿】谷爱凌在纽约庆祝亚裔文化遗产月的活动发表英文演讲

        近日谷爱凌出席纽约曼哈顿中国银行活动，同纽约市长会面，并发表了关于仇恨歧视、文化包容，促进亚裔和华人在世界的影响力，大家要团结起来共同促进世界和平和人类发展。

Eileen Gu, the US-born Olympic skier who competed for China and won gold medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, said there were plenty of people telling her that they did not support what she was doing. But what uplifted her were hundreds of positive messages from her AAPI family.

Olympic skier Eileen Gu speaks at an event celebrating AAPI Heritage Month in New York City on Friday.

AAPI 是 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders（亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民）

Hi, everyone! Good evening. I didn't prepare a script tonight because this is an issue that's very close to my heart, and being part of the community, I thought that I would just say a few words of what I truly believe, share some of my experiences with you all, and hopefully, we can chat about it a little bit later.

大家好！晚上好。今晚我没有准备演讲稿，因为这是我非常关心的问题，作为社区的一份子，我想我可以说几句我坚信的想法，与大家分享一些我的经验，希望我们稍后就此能 聊聊这个话题。

I think as a young person today, it's really easy to feel as though our social, political, and cultural climates are characterized by hate and divide. It's easy to look on our phones and see examples of anti-Asian hate, be it over COVID or be it over lockdown recently in San Francisco. Trust me, I've seen more than anybody.

我认为作为一个如今的年轻人，很容易感到我们的社交、政治和文化氛围被仇恨和分裂所特征化。我们只需要看一下手机上的内容，就可以看到关于COVID或者最近在旧金山的封锁而引发的反亚裔仇恨的例子。相信我，我比任何人都看得多。

What online bullying and discrimination can do to a young person, I got death threats when I was 15 over the Olympics. There were plenty of people telling me that they didn't support what I was doing and made it abundantly clear in the months that followed, but what really uplifted me were the 100 messages that were positive for everyone that was negative.

网暴和歧视对一个年轻人的影响是很大的，我在15岁的时候就收到过死亡威胁，这是因为我参加了奥运会。接下来的几个月里，有很多人告诉我，他们不支持我的做法，并清楚地表达了这一点。但是，真正让我感到振奋的是那100条积极的信息，对于每一个负面的消息，就有一个积极的回应。

It was the feeling of family, of community, culture, tradition, and belief that came from my Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander friends and family. Something that made me feel uplifted, made me feel like I belonged, made me feel like I had family back home, no matter where home was. Getting off the plane in Beijing ever since I was 2 over the summer really felt like I was Huijia, but landing in San Francisco later, I was back home again too.

这让我感受到了家庭，社区、文化、传统和信仰的力量，他们来自亚洲、亚裔美国和太平洋岛屿的朋友和家庭。这些让我感到振奋，让我感到归属感，让我感到有家人在这里，无论家在哪里。自从我两岁时第一次到北京，每年夏天回去都让我感到回到了“回家”，但后来在旧金山落地时，我又回到了家。

Then, I think that's what I learned growing up as a global person. I was able to appreciate different cultures and not compare and contrast them over the same qualities, but really appreciate what each one brought to the table individually, uniquely. It showed me that we are not strong or we are not weak because of our divides. Rather, we are strong because we are unique.

我认为这就是我在成长过程中作为一个全球化公民学到的。我能够欣赏不同的文化，而不是用相同的品质对它们进行比较和对比，而是真正地欣赏这些文化在独特方面带来的贡献。这向我展示了我们不是因为分裂而强大或者弱小，而是因为我们的独特而强大。

So I think my biggest takeaway as of late, especially, is that in the wake of hate, in the face of discrimination, and against all inequality, we have to stand up for ourselves. We have to stand up for those that look like us, for our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander friends and family. 

所以我想说就是在最近，特别是在仇恨的浪潮、歧视和不平等面前，我们需要为自己挺身而出。我们需要为那些与我们相似的人站出来，为了亚洲、亚裔美国人和太平洋岛国的朋友和家人挺身而出。

We also stand up for people who don't look like us. If we're not Asian, we can't be bystanders. If we are Asian and other groups are getting discriminated against, we have to stand up for them too because discrimination of all kinds is wrong. And we have to find a way to unite ourselves as humans.

我们还要为那些与我们外貌不同的人挺身而出。如果我们不是亚裔，我们也不能袖手旁观。如果我们是亚裔，其他族裔正在遭受歧视，我们也必须为他们站出来，因为所有形式的歧视都是错误的。我们需要找到一种方式将人类团结起来。

And so what's important now more than ever is dialogue, it's communication, it's a sense of cultural tolerance, and an ability to learn and understand one another. So for me, that comes through the mode of free-skiing. I think that athletics, particularly skiing, because I think it's so creative and so personal and expressive, it offers this avenue for us to really express ourselves in a deeply human sense, in a way that is not about what country you're from, what gender you are, or how old you are, but rather, what you can do with your body, how you can break your boundaries, how you can make friends and create experiences, and share that love with people all around the world.

因此，现在比以往任何时候都更重要的是对话、沟通、文化宽容和相互学习和理解的能力。对我来说，通过自由滑雪的方式来实现的。我认为，特别是滑雪运动员，因为它非常富有创造性、个人和表现力，它为我们提供了一种真正以人性为本的表达方式，这种方式不是关于你来自哪个国家，你是什么性别，或者你多大，而是关于你如何运用自己的身体，如何打破自己的局限，如何交朋友，创造体验，并与世界各地的人分享热爱。

I also think that you can achieve the same means through a bunch of different avenues. For a lot of you, it may be through commerce, and maybe through art, food, culture, dialogue. And what I encourage everybody in this room, and for all young people, especially, is to use our voices to activate through social media, to activate through platforms, whatever ones we have, to use the voices and the power that we have to stand up for ourselves and others, to create the positive change we want to see, to be the optimists because someone has to lead, and why not be us? So happy API awareness month. I'm really proud of all of us in the work that we've achieved so far. We have so far to go, but I know that we'll get there and that we will all be equal. So thank you.

我也认为，你可以通过许多不同的途径实现一样的目的。对于很多人来说，可能是通过商业、艺术、食品、文化、对话等方式。我鼓励在座的每一个人，特别是所有年轻人，利用社交媒体、各种平台，用我们的声音和力量为自己和他人站出来，创造我们想要看到的积极改变，成为乐观主义者，因为总得有人带头，为什么不能是我们呢？所以祝大家和太平洋岛民遗产月快乐。我为我们一起取得的成就感到骄傲，我们还有很长的路要走，但我知道我们会到达那。谢谢大家。