2012年末，剛上任不久的習(xí)近平主席就提出了“中國(guó)夢(mèng)”，并在今年習(xí)奧會(huì)時(shí)說(shuō)中國(guó)夢(mèng)“與包括美國(guó)夢(mèng)在內(nèi)的世界各國(guó)人民的美好夢(mèng)想相通”，作為我們的老朋友，您理解的“中國(guó)夢(mèng)”應(yīng)當(dāng)是什么？
我不會(huì)妄自說(shuō)“中國(guó)夢(mèng)”是什么，但是我想，“中國(guó)夢(mèng)”中包含了一些基礎(chǔ)元素，當(dāng)然我也認(rèn)為這些基礎(chǔ)元素對(duì)美國(guó)來(lái)說(shuō)更重要。中國(guó)夢(mèng)是實(shí)現(xiàn)民族文化的生機(jī)勃勃，實(shí)現(xiàn)社會(huì)的獨(dú)立，可以在很大程度上做自己的決定，但在和其他社會(huì)進(jìn)行比較和溝通時(shí)，還能保持不傲慢自大并開放的態(tài)度。這些都是中國(guó)夢(mèng)中包含的各式元素，這些合理的、有意義的元素指引了中國(guó)夢(mèng)的方向，這個(gè)方向，需要用恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~和路徑去表達(dá)。比如，當(dāng)年富蘭克林·羅斯福就試圖為美國(guó)的政治方向找到一個(gè)新詞，雖然后來(lái)違背了，但“經(jīng)濟(jì)民主”，這個(gè)你現(xiàn)在再聽不到了的詞，在當(dāng)時(shí)非常重要。
我覺得在中國(guó)夢(mèng)也關(guān)乎找到合適的詞語(yǔ)、語(yǔ)言或方式以表達(dá)中國(guó)的希望和抱負(fù)，不是一個(gè)藍(lán)圖，而是一個(gè)方向，一種精神，從個(gè)人價(jià)值和社會(huì)文化價(jià)值兩方面衡量做什么是對(duì)文化和社會(huì)有價(jià)值的、有意義的。
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Well, I wouldn’t presume to say what the Chinese dream is, but I think, it’s, you know from what I see, there are elements that are there. A Chinese dream is part of what the, if you take what I said about what I think is more important about America, it is a vibrant national culture, it’s an independent society, it's a society that’s making to the extent that it can its own decisions, but in the process it’s comparing itself to other societies, and is linked up to them in a non-arrogant and open way, and there are various elements to what the dream would be within that context, but that’s a context that provides something very valid and meaningful for a direction to go, and it’s partly about finding the right words and ways to say it, in another words, when Franklin Roosevelt was president, he tried to find a new vocabulary for American politics, to some extent, and then partly it was turned against, economic democracy, not the term you hear in the US any more, but very prominent.
And part of what I think the Chinese dream is going to involve is finding the kind of words, language, ways of expressing a hope and aspiration, it’s not a blueprint, it’s not saying this is what it is, but it is a direction, it’s a spirit, and within that, a sense of what’s valuable and meaningful for a culture and a society in a broader sense for both, from individual worth to social and cultural worth.
