And as he performed, I looked around the audience, and I saw their faces and the look in their eyes and their responsiveness to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay. 他演出的时候，
My call to action is this build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West. Value this relationship and take ownership of it. 我呼吁的行动是建立和保护东西方之间的室友关系，珍惜它，拥有它。 Don't come to Ox
And why shouldn't it be? 为什么不呢？ Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example. 看看韩语流行音乐的例子。 Korea is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking. 韩国是一个基于出
Iron Man 3, Transformers...53. Resident Evil. 钢铁侠3，变形金刚……53，生化危机。 Really it's beginning to be kind of like a world pop and that's what I'm looking forward to and that's what I'm fo
Then in high school, I learnt that music wasn't just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music. 然后在高中我才知道了音乐不仅是把我们联系在一起，就像布莱恩和我 通过音乐联系在一起。 It was a powerful tool
Then let's take another look at this state of union, the East-West union with this soft power bias. 现在再来看看我们的“联合情况”吧，存在软实力偏见的东西文化的联合。 How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? 这两
There, that's a C-pop mixtape that you can check out. 你们可以看到，这是一盘华流混音录音带。 I was gonna burn you all CDs, but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal and because I'm a profe
So it's actually extremely high amount of negativity fear and anxiety about China. 所以有大量的对中国负面的恐慌和焦虑。 Sino-phobia, that I think is not just misinformed but also misleading, and ultimately dangerou
That's a big fat claim. And I'm gonna try to back it up. 这是一个很大的题目，我会试着证明。 Now the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said. there are no languages required in a musical world. 联合国秘书长潘基文说，在音乐的世界里
And I was facing first but definitely not the last time, the harsh reality that I was minority. 这是我第一次但绝不是最后一次面对这个残酷的现实，我是少数群体。 In Rochester, which in those days had Asian population of 1%. 在罗彻斯特，当时亚洲
So yes, I was the kind of opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn't inhale. 于是我正好是比尔·克林顿的反面，他尝试过大麻，但没有吸入。 See, I didn't try marijuana but I did inhale. 而我呢，明白吗，我没有尝试，但吸入了。 Every
I don't know what to say. I didn't know that there would be a podium with a microphone. I thought I would just be singing songs. Not to downplay that, but…oh, my goodness, what an honor! I am just so
