网友讨论：你最不喜欢美国什么地方？

Annie Feng
Racial and gender politics. Not only are they filling the media and entertainment industries, they even infiltrated higher education and corporations, resulting in censorship of free speech. Not only so, they even have racial profiling laws such as affirmative action.
Healthcare system. If you don’t have a good job with a good healthcare benefits package, you are essentially screwed. Just to give you an example, currently due to the coronavirus I had to live with my parents in my hometown and work remotely. I tried to call a nearby doctor that takes my healthcare plan from my employer, the nurse told me: sorry, due to the virus the doctor currently is not taking new patients. And apparently this is also true of the other doctors that I’ve called. In the humorous words of my best friend to whom I relayed this experience: “this is ‘Murica, you just die.”

种族和性别政治。它们不仅充斥着媒体和娱乐业，而且甚至还渗透到了高等教育和企业之中，结果导致言论自由遭到审查。不仅如此，他们甚至有种族定性法，如平权行动。
医疗系统。如果你找不到一份好工作，没有好的医疗福利，你就完蛋了。举个例子，目前新冠病毒，我不得不在家乡和父母住在一起，远程办公。我试图打电话给附近的医生，让他把我的医保从雇主那转移过来。但护士告诉我说：抱歉，由于新冠病毒，医生目前不打算接受新的病人。之后我致电的医生也是同样的回复。我把这段经历告诉了我最好的朋友，他幽默的说道:“这是‘默里卡，你死定了。’”

Lack of good public transportation. You simply can’t go anywhere without a car. Busses are arriving late or sometimes every 30min–1 hour. No trains or subways other than in a few cities, and even with them not enough stops. You can’t buy groceries or really go anywhere without a car since the land is just too vast.

缺乏良好的公共交通。没有汽车你哪都去不了。公交车要等很久才来，有时甚至要等半小时到一小时。除了少数几个城市之外，没有火车和地铁，就算有，也没有足够多的站点。因为美国地方太大了，没有车你无法购物，也去不了任何地方

People are too sensitive. In America you always have to watch what you say because people behave very passive aggressively compared to people of other country that I’ve seen. You have to essentially learn a whole new language of knowing what you can say and what you should not. You can’t just speak your mind because if you do, a lot of the times people think you have a second meaning to what you say, otherwise why would you be so straightforward eh? Just to give an example. Once I was writing a paper in my office and a guy came in speaking loudly on his phone, I went to ask him if he can please take his call outside. He then came back and told me that I was being too rude and mean to him. I don’t know how saying: “could you please take it outside?”. I guess only in American “could you” and “please” are not actually part of polite speech.

人们太敏感。在美国你要小心自己的言行，因为与其他国家的人相比，美国人非常好斗。你应该重新学会什么该说，什么不该说。你不能直接说出自己的想法，因为如果你这么做了，很多时候人们会认为你说的话有第二种意思，否则你为什么要这么直截了当? 举个例子。有一次，我正在办公室写论文，一个人走了进来，大声讲着电话，我去问他是否可以到外面接电话。之后他走回来告诉我，我对他太粗鲁、太刻薄了。我当时的原话是“could you please take it outside?“。我猜在美国“could you”和“please”都是不礼貌用语

Cops. Cops in America are too damn cocky and rude, especially in low crime areas. They behave more like mafia people than public servants.
The Media. American mainstream media feigns obxtivity but is possible the most biased media amongst major countries. It mostly focuses on what sells rather than what information is actually important, and uses hack journalism to spread fake news. Even more astonishing is journalists with extremely high degrees would feel perfectly comfortable with making wild unsupported accusations and unsubstantiated “facts.”

警察。美国的警察太自大和太粗鲁了，尤其是在犯罪率低的地区。他们的行为更像黑手党而不像公务员。
媒体。美国主流媒体假装客观，但他们可能是主要国家中最偏颇的媒体。它主要关注的是新闻的卖点而不是新闻的重要性，并利用黑客技术传播假新闻。更令人震惊的是那些拥有超高学历的新闻工作者完全可以做出毫无根据的指控和未经证实的“事实”。

Okay, that being said, I will also list out what I like about America just to be fair:
Americans are funny. This is the number one thing about Americans and America that I absolutely adore the most. Americans can practically make good jokes out of anything and humor is such an ingrained culture and a must in all facet of life. For a striking example, in most places around the world, swear words are considered uncivilized. But in America in particular, it’s actually the opposite. If you know how to use swear words in a humorous way, that shows that you are smart, thoughtful, and even civilized. Swear words in especially American English are funny as a result.

公平起见，我也会说几点关于美国的优点
美国人很有趣。这是关于美国和美国人最重要的一点，也是我最喜欢他们的原因。美国人几乎可以拿任何事情开玩笑，这是因为幽默是美国的一种根深蒂固的文化，在生活的各个方面都必不可少。举一个明显的例子，在世界上的大多数地方，说脏话被认为是不文明的行为。但在美国，情况恰恰相反。如果你知道如何以一种幽默的方式来说脏话，这反而能表明你是聪明的，有思想的，甚至是文明的。因此，在美国英语中，骂人的话特别有趣。

spread out land masses. Despite the public transportation issue, I like how flat the landscape of America is. You drive through the country and you see hundreds upon hundreds of miles of flat empty space. Makes you feel really calm and relaxed, that there seems to be no overcrowding problem.

聚居区分散。尽管有公共交通问题，我还是喜欢美国平坦的风景。开车穿过乡村，看到的是成百上千英里平坦空旷的地方。可以让你感到平静和放松，似乎没有过度拥挤的问题。

Diversity. Although I absolutely abhor how the concept of diversity is used nowadays—which is just racial and gender politics, what I consider to be true diversity, which are actual contributions, not based on arbitrary human characteristics, is the most endearing. In America you have the opportunities to be in touch with many different cultures around the world. You can go to cultural festivals, talk to people from around the world, be in touch of arts and literature etc.

多样性。虽然我很讨厌如今使用多样性概念的方式——即种族和性别政治，但我认为真正的多样性是对社会具有真正贡献，不任意以人类特征为基础的，这样的多样性才是最讨喜的。在美国你有机会接触到来自世界各地的文化。你可以去参加文化节，和来自世界各地的人交谈，接触艺术和文学等等。

Individualism. Although not always resulting in good things, the promotion of your individuality is something that I deeply appreciate with the American culture. In America you don’t have to be a patriot and you are less pressured to be a collectivist of some kind. People tend to leave you alone to be yourself and respect your personal privacy and space. In America for example you feel more at ease to dress or look a certain way even if you stand out a lot. Basically you are less pressured to be a conformist.

个人主义。个人主义并非没有缺点，但提升自己的个性是我非常欣赏美国文化的一个方面。在美国，你不必成为一个爱国者，也没有那么大的压力成为某种集体主义者。人们不会干涉你，你可以成为自己想要的那个自己，你的个人隐私和空间可以得到充分的尊重。在美国即便你穿着很显眼，也会感觉更加自在。基本上，没有那么多的压力逼着你墨守成规
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Friendliness to strangers. Americans are quite exaggerated in terms of friendliness to strangers especially in business settings. This sort of came out of an overly capitalist culture and not always sincere. However, imagine when you are in a bad mood, you decide to take yourself out to dinner or to see a movie, and everywhere you go people greet you with big sparkling smiles and telling you how glad they are to see you. Even when you know it’s probably business as usual it really does brighten your day right up. And I’m sure many of these people really believe in treating strangers this way.

对陌生人很友善。美国人对陌生人的友善有时候会很夸张，尤其是在商务场合。这是过度资本主义导致的结果，显得并不是很真诚。然而，当你心情不好的时候 ，决定出去用餐或看电影，你所到之处迎接你的都是热情洋溢的笑脸，并告诉你他们看到你非常的高兴。即便你知道这只是日常惯例，但它确实可以让你一天的心情好起来。我相信很多人都相信应该这样对待陌生人。

The high standards of living facilities. I think this is probably the biggest reason why most immigrants eventually decide to stay in America. With a middle class income you get to live in big mansions in beautifully built suburbs, with big washers and dryers, AC, and showers/bathtub. Even my parents who really have issues with mingling with Americans and they frequently want to go back to China, resigned to the fact that America just has a much more comfortable living condition. People and houses are not crammed together, living spaces are large, utilities are fancy, streets are clean. Basically you feel you have a lot of room to breathe. Once you get used to this kind of lifestyle it’s really hard to change it.

高水平的生活设施。我想这或许是外来移民留在美国的最大的原因。只要有中等收入，你就可以住进郊区的大别墅，里面还有大的洗衣机、烘干机、空调、淋浴/浴缸。即便是我的父母在于美国人相处中有很多的问题，并且常常想要回到中国，但美国更加舒适的生活环境还是让他们放弃了这个打算。生活空间很大，人们不用挤在一起住，公共设施先进，街道干净。基本上你会觉得自己有很大的呼吸空间。一旦你习惯了这种生活方式，就很难改变了。