【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 new roommates instead: Stephan and Jason, and these days the three of us are the best of going back to my analogy, East and West, as roommates, do we want to be Frank, or do we want to be Steph and Jason, and I think in this day and age, in 2013, we should all be striving for the ’m assuming we all agree that this is the goal that we all strive , let’s look at where we are in reality, in recent headlines, in the media include, Foreign policy [maybe?], China’s victim plex, Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States or the [AP, the Associated Press?], Human rights in China worse than says, on the cover of this magazine, Yes, the Chinese army is spying on you [laughter] And it’s such a great one that I want to show you the cover of the magazine [laughter][Ed:check out the photo on the right!] Yes, be very afraid![laughter]There’s actually an extremely high amount of negativity and fear and anxiety about China, Sinophobia, that I think is not just misinformed and misleading and ultimately what about how Westerners are viewed by Chinese? Well, we have terms for most mon of which are gwailo, in Cantonese which means “the old devil”, laowai, meaning “the old outsider” in Mandarin, ang moh, which means “the red hairy one” in Taiwanese, and the list goes on and are these roommates heading for a best friend relationship? I think we need a little as China rise to power, I think it is more important than ever for us to more discerning about what we believe because after all, I think, that’s the purpose of higher education, and that’s why we are all here, to be able to think for ourselves and make our own ’s not just those burgeoning economy with unique is not just the world’s factory or the next big superpower, it’s so much more, a billion people with rich culture, amazing stories, and as a product of both of those cultures, I want to help foster an understanding between the [x] that incredible relationship, because knowing both sides of the coin, I really think that there is a love story waiting to be told, ready to I’m only half joking when I said love story because I believe it is the stories that will save us and bring us closer my thesis statement for today’s talk is that the relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture, and I’m going to try and back it , the UN SecGen Ban Ki Moon said, “There are no languages required in the musical is the power of is the power of heart.” Through this promotion of arts we can better understand the culture and civilisation of other in this era of instability and intolerance, we need to promote better understanding through the power of UN SecGen thinks that we need more music, and I think that he is and arts have always played a key role in my life, in building relationships, replacing what once were ignorance, fear and hatred, with acceptance, friendship and even I have a strong case for promoting music between cultures because it happened to me early in my was born in Rochester, New York, I barely spoke a word of didn39。t know the difference between Taiwan or Thailand.[laughter] I was as American as apple pie, until one day on the 3rd grade playground, the inevitable finally happened: I got teased for being every kid gets teased or being made fun of in the playground, but this was fundamentally different and I knew right then and this kid let’s call him Brian [x].He started making fun of me, saying “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!” [laughing] We’re laughing now but it hurt!I could still remember how I felt, I felt ashamed, I felt I laughed along with I didn39。t know what else to was like having an out of body if I could laugh at that Chinese kid on the playground with all the other Americans because I was one of them, right? Wrong, on many I was facing the first and definitely not the last time the harsh reality was that I was minority in Rochester, which in those days had an Asian population of 1%.And I was wanted to punch wanted to hurt him for putting me in that situation but he was faster than me, and he was stronger than me, and he would kick my butt and we both knew that, so I just took it didn39。t tell anyone or share with anyone these feelings, I just held them in and I let them those feelings would surface in a strangely therapeutic way for me through music, and it was no coincidence that around at that time I started getting good with the violin, and the guitar and the I’d soon discovered that by playing music or singing that the other kids would for a brief moment forget about my race or color and accept me and then be able to see me for who I truly am: a human being who is emotional, spiritual, curious about the world, and has a need for love just like everyone by the sixth grade, guess who asked me if I would the drummer of their band? I said that’s when we together formed an elementary school rock band called… ’m not kidding, I was in a rock band called Nirvana before Kurt Cobain39。s Nirvana was ever known… So when Nirvana came out, Brian and I were like, hey he’s stealing our name!But really what attracted me to music at this young age was just that, and still is what I love about music, is that it breaks down the walls between us and shows us so quickly the truth that we are much more alike than we [think?].And then in high school, I learned that music wasn’t just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through was a powerful tool of influence and [Nguyen?] was my high school was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of scrubbed the floors and cleaned the bathrooms of our school for twenty never talked to the kids, and the kids never talked to one day before the opening night of our school’s annual musical, he walked up to me holding a letter, and I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor approaching me? And he gave me this letter that I’ve kept it to this day, it was scrawled in shaky hand writt