美国电影《阿甘正传》中有一句话让我们记忆深刻,多年不忘。故事说得是20世纪70年代初的事情,阿甘作为美国乒乓球队员访华,当他回国后,记者问他对中国的最深印象是什么,阿甘回答说:他们什么也没有。也就是说中国人非常贫穷。这句话深深地刺痛着我们的自尊心。作为20世纪60年代出生的人,我们亲身经历了那段困难的时期,虽然儿时的印象里家家户户都不富裕,但是我们并没有穷困不堪的感觉,精神生活也是非常地充实。当90年代我们成人时,却听到一个外国人对自己儿时的中国那种评价,的确心里很不舒服。 There is a saying in American film Forrest Gump that made us remember deeply and for many years did not forget. When the story was told in the early 1970s, Forrest Gump visited China as a table tennis player in the United States. When he returned to China, the reporter asked him what his deepest impression of China was. Gump responded that they did not have anything. In other words, the Chinese are very poor. This sentence deeply hurt our self-esteem. As a person born in the 1960s, we experienced the difficult period in our own time. Although childhood impressions are not wealthy for every household, we have no feeling of destitution and spiritual life is also very substantial. When we were adults in the 1990s, it was indeed uncomfortable to hear a foreigner comment on his childhood China.