15歲華裔女孩用一堂課講述“她的中國”

李玲玲

這次回國探親，陳內(nèi)嵐給自己帶了任務。她每天拍微視頻，包括吃了什么、玩了什么、路過什么地方。她想用短視頻告訴丹麥的老師、同學和朋友，現(xiàn)在的中國是什么樣子。

在這個濕冷的冬天，我認識了一位15歲的女孩Jasmin Nielsen。她從丹麥來，中文名字叫陳內(nèi)嵐，爸爸是丹麥人，媽媽是杭州人，一家人生活在丹麥。近段時間，他們回杭州來探親。

出現(xiàn)在我眼前的陳內(nèi)嵐，穿了厚襯衣外加毛衣背心，大眼睛，愛笑;更顯眼的是一頭紫紅色的短發(fā)，滿滿的青春活力。

“我剛剛吃了面，很熱。杭州的面真好吃?！彪m然是在丹麥出生，但從小對中國不陌生的陳內(nèi)嵐，中文交流完全沒有障礙。

“這是在杭州染的，為了全家合影時好看?！彼f的是自己的發(fā)色。原來，每次回國，全家都要去拍一張全家福做紀念。比她小兩歲的妹妹是長卷發(fā)，而她是短發(fā)，就選擇染了個出挑的顏色。

看得出來，陳內(nèi)嵐是一個有主意的女孩。

陳內(nèi)嵐住得離哥本哈根不算太遠，今年上九年級。班主任是一名50歲的女老師，丹麥人，教政治、社會等課程。這位老師平時上課提到中國和中國人時，總是以“落后”“愚昧”來形容。對此，嵐嵐忍不住了——

“老師，你去過中國嗎？”

“沒有。”

“老師，你有中國朋友嗎？”

“沒有?！?/p>

“老師，那為什么您堅持認為中國就是落后的，中國人是愚昧的呢？我經(jīng)常去中國，我有很多中國親友，我看到的、感受到的中國和您認為的不一樣?！?/p>

去年學期初，老師提前發(fā)了授課計劃，其中有一項，是中西方對比，授課計劃里中國是“落后方”。于是就有了上面嵐嵐和老師的對話。下課之后，嵐嵐還給老師發(fā)了長長的郵件。但老師并沒有回復她。

后來不知道什么原因，這個章節(jié)老師沒講。嵐嵐倒是希望老師講，因為她想趁著這機會，好好說說她的看法。課后，她去問老師，老師拿出了丹麥媒體對香港修例風波的報道回應她。

陳內(nèi)嵐更不理解了：“這些報道就是全面、真實的嗎？老師您教我們要有質(zhì)疑精神，那么能不能給我一堂課的時間，我來給同學們講講我認識的中國?！?/p>

老師答應了。

陳內(nèi)嵐的媽媽說，她學習成績還不錯，在學校中一直屬于乖乖女的形象，不張揚，以前也很少在老師面前表達不同意見。

“但是這件事我生氣了，因為一直以來，我的班主任老師對中國的觀點就是錯誤的，更可悲的是同學們竟認同她。平時有些課老師講到什么，同學們覺得不能接受時會馬上站出來質(zhì)疑，可到了關(guān)于中國的時候，他們就沉默了。他們并不了解中國，卻接受老師傳達的錯誤信息。”說到這里，陳內(nèi)嵐情緒激動，漢語英語丹麥語都冒了出來。

對于15歲的她來說，這一堂課意義重大。

老師既然以丹麥當?shù)氐膱蟮纴碚f，她就查閱了不同國家（）在同一時期對同一事件的報道來進行對比，她以“我們的質(zhì)疑精神呢”切題，和同學們討論如何全面看待中國和中國人。

陳內(nèi)嵐準備了兩個多月，精心制作了PPT，還去邀請了校長來聽她的課?！耙驗槲視v到一些歷史知識，諸如鴉片戰(zhàn)爭，而我們的校長是歷史老師，應該了解。”

意料之中，這堂課是成功的，“同學們聽得很認真，為我鼓掌。原來他們也想多了解一些中國。我特別感動。就是一堂課的時間太短了。”她想做得更多。

這次回國探親，陳內(nèi)嵐給自己帶了任務，“我要用我的短視頻告訴丹麥的同學，現(xiàn)在的中國是什么樣子。”她每天拍微視頻，包括吃了什么、玩了什么、路過什么地方，然后把視頻發(fā)給丹麥同學、朋友看?！拔液兔妹萌ケ本┡懒碎L城，還去了頤和園、故宮。很多同學看我發(fā)的視頻，他們覺得中國很有趣?！?/p>

這兩天，陳內(nèi)嵐還在計劃做街頭采訪。她設計了一些丹麥同學最想問的問題，讓中國人自己面對鏡頭直接回答。

“我覺得我做這些很有意義，所以很開心。你覺得呢？”陳內(nèi)嵐問我。

我覺得，青春一代很有活力。我為認識你而感到開心。

I meet the 15-year-old Jasmin Nielsen on a wet winter day in Hangzhou. She is in Hangzhou with her parents and younger sister for a visit to her mothers hometown. The family now lives in Denmark. Her mother is a native of Hangzhou and her father is Danish. Jasmin Nielsens Chinese name is Chen Neilan.

She wears a thick shirt and a sleeveless woolen sweater. She has big eyes and laughs a lot. With short hair dyed in purple， she looks cool. She says she had her hair dyed in Hangzhou for a family photo. The family takes a family photo whenever they are back in Hangzhou. Her younger sister has long curly hair and she has short hair. So she picked the color purple to look attractive.

Though born in Denmark， she speaks Chinese fluently and is well acquainted with Chinese culture. The fifteen-year-old Chen is a ninth-grade student in a school not far from Copenhagen. Mentioning her school activities， she tells me a story about her lecture on China in her classroom.

Her homeroom teacher teaches politics and social science. The fifty-year-old teacher used to look down upon China. Whenever her teaching concerned China and Chinese people， she used words such as backward and ignorant.

At the beginning of a new semester in 2019， the teacher gave a plan of what she was going to teach and want the class to discuss. One thing in the outline was a comparison between China and the west. In the plan， China was listed as a country that exemplified the backward. Jasmin couldnt stand such statements and asked her teacher if she had visited China or had Chinese friends. The teacher had never visited China and had no Chinese friends. Jasmin Nielsen protested， saying she had visited China many times and had Chinese friends and asking why the China she witnessed and experienced was different from the China the teacher portrayed.

After the class， Jasmin sent a long email to the teacher. The teacher gave no response， but she chose to drop the comparison in the classroom. After the class， Jasmin and her teacher had a conversation and the teacher showed the 15-year-old the press coverage in Denmark on Hong Kong events in 2019. Jasmin pointed out the coverage was neither complete nor truthful. She asked the teacher if she could give a lecture on China. The teacher okayed her proposal.

The fifteen-year-old spent about two months preparing the lecture. She made a long PPT document. She invited the school principal to attend the lecture. She thought the invitation was appropriate as she was going to touch upon some events such as the opium wars in the history of China and the school principal was a teacher of history.

The lecture was a success. The classmates listened attentively and applauded. She became aware that they really wanted to know more about China. The warm response touched her. She regretted only that her time was limited.

In her home visit to Hangzhou， she gives herself a task of making short videos in Hangzhou and sending them back to her classmates in Denmark， showing what she sees and what she visits. “My sister and I have visited the Great Wall， the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City in Beijing. Many classmates have watched my videos and they think China interesting.”

Chen plans to do some street interviews in a day or two. Her questionnaire lists some questions her classmates in Denmark want to ask. She wants to film direct answers from people she is going to meet.

“I think this is going to be very interesting and therefore I am happy，” says the girl.