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有一次,我同一位日本学者聊天,谈到民族性格的问题。我讲:“欧美人的这里有一扇门,打开来就可以看到他的心了。日本人的这里有三道门,你要开三次才能看到他的心。”我问他:“那么中国人呢?”他笑了笑,并无恶意地说:“有无数道门,你永远也无法了解他的真实想法。”我进一步问:“那么从职业的角度上讲,这三种人都适合干什么呢?”他沉吟了一下说:“欧美人可以搞科学,日本人适合商人,中国人天生就是军事家。” 于是我想起了孙子。
Once, I chatted with a Japanese scholar and talked about the problem of national character. I said: “There is a door in Europe and America. You can see his heart when you open it. The Japanese have three doors here. You have to open three times to see his heart.” “I asked him:” Then what about the Chinese?” “He smiled and said without malice:“ There are countless roads, and you can never know what he really thinks.”I further asked:" Then from a professional point of view, What do these three people are suitable for?” He said, “The Europeans and Americans can engage in science, the Japanese are suitable for businessmen, and the Chinese are born military.” So I remembered my grandson.