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- 来自南美的报道 (ZT)
分享小苹果来自巴西里约热内卢访问贫民窟Favela Santa Marta的报道：
Seen gun fighting scenes in Fast 5 ? Some of the scenes were filmed in the most notorious slums in Rio de Janeiro. Today, I spent a full day in Santa Marta, the slum where Dominic Toretto and Luke Hobbs did their roof chase.
(https://www.google.com.br/search ... amp;revid=979315293)
Have you been to Oakland, Southern Chicago, or Bronx? The worst neighborhoods in America minus gun violence are nothing compared to here. Santa Marta has the worst possible human living conditions I've ever seen: Deprived safety, limited space, and health concerns just about everything. Christ the Redeemer looks rainbow and sunshine, but you wouldn't know we were standing on the roof of an abandoned church. On my way to the upper part, I walked through an literal maze, seeing contaminated water channels, human wastes, dog wastes, construction materials, half-naked men with their cheap loud music and beers.
Everything was just so… different in this universe. The girl is 17, the mother of the kid. You won't tell her about feminism and how women should get education and postpone pregnancy. The boy is 16, and I'll be happy if he doesn't end up doing drugs or fathering someone soon… Poverty, that is what it boils down to - not just Santa Marta, but the massive developing world.
Yet, I felt bewildered. I was confused because this pair of brother and sister exhibited qualities many of us are too cool to have. They were warm, and friendly. They voluntarily offered me a tour within the slum to where Micheal Jackson came and performed in 1996. They advised me where to put my wallet and camera, and how to avoid troubles. They asked interesting questions that reflected intellectual curiosity. They asked how many languages I could speak. They asked where are these Honda Toyota Fiat Chevrolet Ford BMW automobiles made in as we spotted them passing by. They asked how many hours from New York to Rio, and they asked how New York looks like. Well… a lot of them I couldn't explain to them… not in the language they understand.
In the terms of socioeconomics, I just saw some people from the lower end, yet ironically they are happier than many of us, many many of us from the developed world and the well-offs. To wrap up my story and the long day: I played football with these kids - and football was straight up happiness for everyone.
— 于Favela Santa Marta
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本帖最后由 Rebecca 于 2014-12-29 18:10:53 编辑
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
上图乃巴西里约热内卢一家日本寿司酒吧—Kimochii Sushi Lounge.
巴西约有130万日裔日侨，是日本向海外移民人数最大的国家。追溯源自19世纪日本政府开始向巴西输出劳工移民。这些多为日本农民。他们最早移居在巴西圣保罗及周边从事咖啡种植业，随后日本移民也向巴西东南沿海逐渐扩散开来。随着经济改善，受教育机会增多，从事职业也开始多样化起来。二战后大量的日本人，德国人移民去了巴西。上个世纪八十年代随着日本经济的腾飞约有27万日裔巴西人重新返回日本定居。日裔巴西人繁衍已有5-6代。人种也与巴西印欧人，非裔人大量混血，文化已融入巴西当地文化。现代巴西日裔日侨多已不会说日语，只能说葡萄牙语，'jackshit English'(很烂的英语）。
二战期间作为葡萄牙殖民地澳门是整个东南亚唯一没有被日本入侵染指过的地区。据说当时属于中立国葡萄牙照会过日本，如果日本入侵澳门，葡萄牙将全部遣返或驱逐同属葡萄牙殖民地巴西定居的数以百万日本侨民。地缘**，利害博弈。相互钳制，一物降一物，因而澳门幸运躲过了一劫。#南美巴西
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2014-12-15
于海边寓所
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
引用 4 楼 琴山 在 2014-12-16 16:30:29 的发言:
春蚕到死丝方尽，父母成灰爱始干。。。
所以那些智慧的父母是懂得要把自己的孩子托付给天父上帝的。因为衪的愛才是不离不弃，怜悯如江河涌流……人世间的海枯石烂都是会过去的，惟有衪的愛是断不了的，愛你就会愛到底…：D
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
— 在 El Cristo de la Concordia CBBA
Spotting a white person is like dooood I found a white person, whereas asian is like a walking dinosaur on street. No blacks yet. #demography #bolivia
— 在 El Alto International Airport，La Paz
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
At a very quiet place on South American continent enjoying cachaca and singani cocktails... In 300 miles vicinity, only winds and sands and the american classic songs from the 80's, telling stories about the girls that made me happy the girls that made me sad.
_____ 在 Lithium Club Restaurant - Pub， Uyuni
People are the guide. Nature is the water closet. I hijacked a train to Chile.
_____在 Frontera Chile Bolivia, Ollague.
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
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本帖最后由 Rebecca 于 2014-12-29 10:04:38 编辑
One of the bolivian nights in a remote dessert boarding Chile, we lodged at a provisional accommodation with neither electricity nor hot water. I sat alone under the most beautiful sky I've ever seen, soon it came an american girl.
"I might be privileged but am not rich; just have been very lucky to see parts of the world," said she, a solo travel girl from America, "You don't understand the obstacles traveling as a woman, but I'm here tonight."
For one second, I had a strange feeling that I am living in the Golden Age on massive free land of the Middle West. I ran back to my Highlander, switched on the engine, it played our Bolivian captain's MP3 music - and, coincidently it was a classic american song in the 90's.
Just one of those nights with a brave soul.
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
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本帖最后由 Rebecca 于 2014-12-29 11:50:21 编辑
尾声：
Graduated from Berkeley, got a job in NYC, moved to the center of Manhattan, visited Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and everywhere California - thanks for the good year.
It's a little bit early until New Year's Eve, but I'll say it now. In 2014, aside from the educational degree I completed and the places/countries I traveled, I added about 2000 french words and 500 japanese idioms into my vocabulary. Of course, more to come in 2015 !
Life is a chain of missed opportunities, and you have to make sure the chain stays short. Act today! - Gunther Holtorf
- 三十功名尘与土，八千里路云与月。
