一美国旧金山华裔和一个马来西亚华人的心声 [联合国媒体]

Isn't this the sad pathos of many ethnic huarens who live and work overseas in the global Diaspora?

这是不是许多像犹太人一样离开国家在海外生活工作的的华人所共有的悲伤？



Today, Malaysia.... tomorrow, who knows? Ethnic discrimination and marginalization is our pain.

今天是马来西亚……明天呢？谁知道？种族歧视和种族边缘化是我们的痛苦。

We are "international orphans." Neither loved nor valued by the country of our ancestors, the motherland, and viewed suspiciously as "unassimilable" exploiters and carpetbaggers by the country of our resettlement.

我们是“国际孤儿”。我们祖先所在的国家，我们的祖国，既不爱我们也不把我们当做一回事，而我们定居的国家只是将我们猜疑为“不能被同化的”拓荒者和提包客。

We are in "no man's land," discriminated, marginalized, and treated as "second-class" citizens by both ends....... disrespected, insulted, and often subjected to violence, persecution, and pogroms.

我们在一片“三不管的地带”被两边歧视、被两边边缘化、被两边当作“二等”公民……不受尊敬、被侮辱、常常遭受暴力、迫害、以及有组织的大屠杀。

Meanwhile, by our own wits, our own bootstraps, many of us have struggled and through sheer tenacity and the stoicism, the cultural trait of "eat bitterness," ('chi-ku'), perseverance, frugality, family cohesion, and focus on discipline, education, and patience, have achieved economic and financial success..... not all, but many.

但是遭受上述种种的同时，我们中的许多人又依靠自己的智慧、独立地战斗着。我们用纯粹的坚韧和自制、以及文化中天生的“吃苦”精神、不屈不挠地战斗着。我们节俭、围绕家庭凝聚在一起、守纪律、接受教育、并忍耐着，最终获得了经济和财政上的成功……当然不是所有人，但的确是许多人。

But socially, politically, culturally, we are "non-persons."

但是不管从社会角度、还是从政治角度、亦或是从文化角度，我们都“不是人”。

I used to think Indonesia was bad..... with periodic cycles of violent persecutions, massacres, pogroms.... the latest one during the financial meltdown of 1997, thanks to George Soros and the schmucks. Then, the Indonesian Chinese in Jakarta were persecuted and suffered much, with many of their businesses torched, women raped, young children terrorized, men being butchered.........

我过去总认为周期性地使用暴力迫害、大屠杀的印度尼西亚人很坏……最近一次大屠杀发生在1997年金融风暴期间（这要拜乔治·索罗斯那个蠢货所赐）。雅加达的印尼华人遭到迫害，吃了那么多大苦：他们的店铺被放火烧了、妇女被强奸了、小孩子遭到恐怖威胁、男人被屠杀……

Yet, look at Jakarta today, at least they have a Chinese-Indonesian governor, Ah-Hok.

然而看看雅加达的今天，至少他们今天有了一位华裔州长Ah-Hok。

Look elsewhere in Vietnam, the ethnic Chinese are also being subjected to fear and perilous conditions of being intimidated and exposed to violent reprisals and their businesses being torched.

再看看越南。那里的华裔会被威胁，还很容易受到暴力的报复，他们的商铺正在被放火烧掉，他们的生存也承受着恐惧和危险。

Look at the United States, where Chinese scientists and professionals today are being treated suspiciously as "China spies," badly mistreated, and discriminated against, and banished from sensitive positions, both within government and within academia.

看美国。今天那里的华裔科学家和教授们正被怀疑是“中国间谍”，不管是在政府内部还是在学术机构内部他们都遭到虐待、歧视、并被从敏感的位置上驱逐。

What the fuck is the government in Beijing doing to help and protect us? Nada. Nothing.

北京的那个政府为了帮助和保护我们究竟做了什么？什么也没有。

We are on our own. We sink or swim, do or die, and need to fend for ourselves.......

我们全凭自己。我们沉没或是自救，做或者死，都需要自己照料自己……

Where to go? Singapore, a tiny small city-state, has become too small to accomodate all of us...... China? They don't want us. They consider us "orphans." They just want our cukongs, our taipans, ouir super-rich mercantile class who have money and can invest in China.

去往何处？那个小小的城市国家新加坡太小以致于无法容纳下我们所有人……中国？他们不要我们。他们认为我们是“孤儿”。他们只想要我们的cukongs，我们的taipans，我们超级富裕的可以往中国投资的商人阶级。

It is a "one-way street." We global huarens are left on our own..... wedged between a rock and a hard wall.

这是一条“单行道”。我们全球华人被抛弃了，要依靠自己的力量……往一块大石和一堵硬墙之间挤进去。

At least, with the Jews of the world, they have ISRAEL.

至少在犹太人的世界中他们有以色列。

For us global huarens, we have nothing. No country nor government which trust us, which will come to our aid and assist us.

对于我们这些全球华人而言，我们一无所有。没有国家，没有政府相信我们，也没有国家和政府会来救援帮助我们。

We are international orphans.

我们是国际孤儿。

"Malaysian Chinese, where do we go from here?

马来西亚的华裔同胞们， 我们何去何从？

You have heard enough of the "white man's burden" used by the colonial white Europeans to justify their relentless, inhumane, racist and cruel conquests of foreign lands and subjugation of foreign, most of the time coloured subjects in their land of conquest. They deemed it their missionary obligation to colonise their savages in order that they fulfilled their Christian Evangelical duties to bring about "enlightenment" or "civilising influence" upon these people. The entailing crude exploitation aspects were conveniently glossed over.

殖民地时代的白种欧洲人使用“白人的负担”这个术语为他们冷酷的、残忍的、种族主义的、无情的征服外国的土地，以及在他们征服的土地上镇压与他们不一样的人（大部分时候是有色人种）而辩护，对此我们已经听够了。他们认为他们的传教士有必要让被他们殖民的野蛮人遵守秩序，于是这些基督教福音派教会传教士为了完成他们的任务就去“启蒙”或是“用文明影响”这些野蛮人，不过连带的粗陋剥削都被顺便掩饰过去了。

In the Malaysian context, we were constantly being reminded of yet another dictum propagated by none other than the venerable Dr Mahathir, the never-ever-call-it-quit ex-PM, who before his tumultuous rise to power and infamy, penned this notorious book "The Malay Dilemma" lamenting the economic backwardness of his Malay compatriots in their so-called own land where they deemed their local Chinese had stolen their deserved opportunities from them.

那位以永不言弃而令人敬仰的前总理Mahathir博士，在慷慨激昂地获取权力并干尽那些丑行之前曾写了一本臭名昭着的书《马来人的困境》。他在书中悲叹他的马来同胞们在所谓他们自己的土地上的经济倒退，而他们认为的原因就是本地华裔偷了他们应得的机会。这就是马来西亚的大环境，而我们身在其中竟然要被这位博士所宣扬的格言一而再地提醒。

As history would tell us, the human species are constantly being indoctrinated by so many "ism", philosophies, ideologies, thoughts etc that never cease to boggle our simplistic minds.

正如历史告诉我们的，不管是什么人种，都是被各种各样的“主义”、哲学、意识形态、思想等等诸如此类从不会停止恐吓我们过分单纯的心灵的东西灌输出来的。

By holding on firmly to both political and its entailing administrative power, the Malays have, after almost 60 years of nationhood, and in the process engaging in one of the world's most successful social engineering restructuring enterprise, quite admirably turned their pathetic state of economic backwardness around by expanding the economic pie and some measure of forcibly coercively wrestling it from its unwilling non-Malays' deserved share. I am not going to delve into the nitty gritty of such injustices here.

马来西亚建国差不多有60年，在这60年中这个国家完成了世界上最成功的社会结构调整计划之一：马来人坚定地依靠政治以及连带的行政权力，将经济蛋糕做大，并使用强迫的方式（也不管非马来族裔是否愿意）一味强制性地从非马来族裔那里抢夺非马来族裔应得的份额，就这样及其完美地将他们那个悲惨的、经济倒退的国家转了个个。

As in any simple arithmetics, the sum total in resources distributions in any confined boundary since the advent of the notion called nationhood is a finite one. The forced redistribution of any finite resources invariably would result in a zero-sum scenario where the gain/surplus of one player shall necessarily result in the depletion or deficit in another.

用最简单的算术也可以算出自从马来西亚被称作一个国家以来，在它固定的边境线里的可供分配的资源总数是一个有限的“整体一”。任何对有限资源进行强制性再分配，都会因为一位参与者的消耗或是亏损而不可避免地导致另一位参与者什么都得不到。

Here, we thus have the Chinese Malaysians who are being forced to face the squeeze whether or not we like it. The successful resolution of the perceived injustices as envisaged in the "Malay Dilemma" has naturally given rise to the new "Chinese Dilemma". Those politicians, especially the Chinese collaborators in the ruling coalition with our hated UMNO regime, can go on until there is no tomorrow and yell that such social engineering does not encroach on Chinese status quo are merely speaking with their forked tongue.

也因此我们就有了不管愿不愿意都被迫面临压榨的马来西亚华裔。在《马来人的困境》一书想象出来的不公正得到成功解决之后，新的“华人的困境”自然而然地就被引出来了。那些政客们，尤其是那些在被我们憎恨的统治联盟巫统政权中的华裔通敌者们，是不见棺材不掉泪的。他们还大喊这样的社会结构不会侵害华裔的现状。这真是骗人的鬼话啊！   

So, now begs the question - where do we go from here after this anti-Chinese Red-Shirt show of force on Kuala Lumpur streets?

所以，请教一个问题：在排华的红衫军于Kuala Lumpur大街上展示了他们的武力之后，我们何去何从？

Bearing in mind that we the Chinese Malaysians are the most productive part of the equation - our revenue generating SMEs are almost completely being dominated by us - we must now fall back on using that little left in us to leverage on to make our voices known.

记住我们马来西亚华人在那个等式中是最富有成效的那一部分——我们中小企业所产生的收益几乎完全被我们控制——现在我们必须依赖手上所剩不多的东西让我们的声音被听见。

I would suggest we should now think seriously of a complete strategic economic retreat from this land.

我的建议是我们现在要认真想出一个完整的从这片大陆上进行战略性经济撤退的方案。

Yes, God-damn it! Since they do not seem to appreciate the cold fact that we work their economy and make the nation tick, then we should withdraw this universally treasured largesse. Yes, I am sure a lot of us have already done that, we should not just withdraw our monetary capital, we should withdraw our human resources (i.e. our tertiary-educated children), savings, technological know-how, enterprises, manufacturing plants/facilities etc ...... Let them live a day or more devoid of our contributions." - LEE WEE SHING

是的，真该死！鉴于他们似乎不能理解我们在为他们的经济而工作并使这个国家前进的冰冷现实，我们就应该撤回这份慷慨赠予他们的无比巨大的厚礼。是的，我确信我们中的许多人已经在这么做了。我们不仅仅要撤出货币资本，我们还要撤出人力资源（也就是我们受过高等教育的孩子），还有存款，专业的科技知识、公司、工厂等等等等……让他们失去了我们过一天或者永远这么过下去试试。” —— 作者LEE WEE SHINE