Name: TED】Rebeca Hwang:多樣性的力量 (The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang) (【TED】Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself (The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:50:25.000Z
Duration: 9 min 45 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Marssi Draw

My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back

She was there because my grandmother had cancer surgery that day.

她到醫院去是因為 我外婆那天要動癌症手術。

She started sobbing and immediately said,

Your grandmother's dying wish was to be buried back home in Korea."

I was barely 12 years old, and when the shock wore off,

你們的外婆臨死前的願望 是要葬在韓國的老家。」

my mother's words were ringing in my ears.

我那時才快十二歲， 當震驚漸漸平復，

My grandmother wanted to be buried back home.

We had moved from Korea to Argentina six years prior,

without knowing any Spanish, or how we were going to make a living.

在那件事的六年前， 我們從韓國搬到阿根廷，

And upon arrival, we were immigrants who had lost everything,

完全不懂西班牙文， 也不知道我們要如何維生。

so we had to work really hard to rebuild our lives.

抵達時，我們是失去了一切的移民，

So it hadn't occurred to me that after all these years,

我們得要非常努力重建我們的生活。

所以我從來沒有想過， 在這麼多年之後，

It made me ponder where I would want to be buried someday,

那件事讓我沉思 將來我希望被埋在哪裡，

So this episode launched a lifelong quest for my identity.

I was born in Korea -- the land of kimchi;

所以這個事件讓我開始了 我探索身分的終生追尋。

我生在韓國——韓式泡菜之地，

where I ate so much steak that I'm probably 80 percent cow by now;

在那裡，我吃了好多牛排， 我現在可能有 80% 的成分都是牛；

where I became addicted to peanut butter.

During my childhood, I felt very much Argentinian,

在我的童年，我覺得 自己完全是阿根廷人，

I remember on the first day of middle school,

my Spanish literature teacher came into the room.

我的西班牙文學老師進了教室。

But by then I was fluent in Spanish already,

so it felt as though I could be either Korean or Argentinian,

但那時，我的西班牙語 已經很流利了，

所以感覺就像是， 我可以是韓國人或阿根廷人，

在遊戲中，我得要放棄我的舊身分，

So when I was 18, I decided to go to Korea,

hoping that finally I could find a place to call home.

所以，當我 18 歲時， 我決定去韓國，

希望我最終能找到 一個可以稱為家的地方。

"Why do you speak Korean with a Spanish accent?"

「為什麼你說韓語時 會有西班牙口音？」

And, "You must be Japanese because of your big eyes

還有「你一定是日本人， 因為你的眼睛很大，

And so it turns out that I was too Korean to be Argentinian,

而且你有外國人的肢體語言。」

結果發現，我太韓國了， 所以無法成為阿根廷人；

And this was a pivotal realization to me.

但也太阿根廷了， 無法成為韓國人。

I had failed to find that place in the world to call home.

對我來說，這是很關鍵性的啟發。

But how many Japanese-looking Koreans who speak with a Spanish accent --

我沒能在世界上找到 一個可以稱為家的地方。

or even more specific, Argentinian accent --

但有多少看起來像日本人， 卻說西班牙口音的韓國人——

或更明確來說，是阿根廷口音——

which couldn't hurt in a world that was rapidly changing,

where skills could become obsolete overnight.

在一個快速改變的世界， 有這樣的特性並不是壞事，

So I stopped looking for that 100 percent commonality

畢竟技能都可能在一夕之間被淘汰。

所以，當我遇到一個人時， 我不再去尋求我和他之間

Instead, I realized that oftentimes, I was the only overlap

between groups of people that were usually in conflict with each other.

在常有衝突的族群之間， 我反而是唯一的交集。

I decided to embrace all of the different versions of myself --

even allow myself to reinvent myself at times.

我便決定要擁抱 各個不同版本的我——

甚至允許我偶爾重新發明我自己。

I had no sense of fashion -- thick glasses, simple hairstyle --

我得供認，我那時是個超級怪胎。

我完全對時尚無感—— 厚厚的眼鏡、簡單的髮型——

I think, actually, I only had friends because I shared my homework.

我想，我還會有朋友是因為 我會給別人看我的作業。

I was able to find a new identity for myself,

so I don't know if I can take too much credit for that.

所以對那個轉變， 我不知道我能居多少功。

「找到男人的勝算 （和「古怪」同字）很好，

但貨色（和「好」同字） 很古怪。」

I switched majors so many times that my advisors joked

that I should get a degree in "random studies."

我轉系好多次， 我的指導教授們都開玩笑說，

我應該去主修「隨機專題研究」。

And then over the years, I have gained a lot of different identities.

I started as an inventor, entrepreneur, social innovator.

多年來，我取得了許多不同的身分。

我一開始是發明家、 企業家、社會創新者。

或是我那還在學步孩子 口中不斷說的：

甚至連我的口音都很混淆了——

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