英语PK台 第301期:华人在牙买加的奋斗史

 　　Track One

　　Prior to 1655 when we were colonised by the English
　　在1655年之前我们成为英属殖民地
　　The Spanish first discovered Jamaica in 1492
　　1492年西班牙人首先发现牙买加
　　We still have some places – the architecture is still similar to Spanish architecture
　　我们仍然有一些风格与西班牙一致的建筑
　　Some of the names have that Spanish feel to it
　　有一些建筑的名字也有西班牙语的感觉
　　Tourism is our highest earner of foreign exchange – we pride ourselves on the tourism industry
　　旅游业是我们获取最多外汇的行业——我们为自己的旅游业感到骄傲
　　One of the things we are trying to do is to attract Chinese tourists
　　我们目前正在努力做的事情是争取吸引更多的中国游客
　　Recently our government instituted a policy where Chinese tourists can come to Jamaica without a visa and stay for thirty days
　　目前我国政府实施的一项政策是中国游客可以待在牙买加30天免签
　　We are a region that is certainly rich in cultural diversity – our food, our music
　　我们是一处拥有多元文化的地域———包括我们的食物和音乐
　　Jamaica is a former British colony – slavery was abolished in 1834
　　牙买加曾是英属殖民地———奴隶制在1834年被废止
　　As such the plantation 1 owners had to find another way of supplementing the labour force
　　种植园主不得不寻求其他方式填补劳动力的空缺
　　So they turned to both China and India to get indentured 2 labour
　　因此他们转而去中国和印度寻找契约劳工
　　The first lot of Chinese would have come over in 1864 – it would have been predominantly from the southern part – Guangdong, etc.
　　第一批来此的中国劳工是在1864年———最主要的是来自中国南部的广东等地
　　So that would have been the first lot of Chinese coming to supplement the labour force on the sugar plantations 3
　　因此这第一批中国人也就成为了糖料种植园的劳力补充
　　We also have a few coffee plantations
　　我们也有一些咖啡种植园
　　We used to be the jewel of the British colonies in the Caribbean in terms of our sugar industry
　　在糖料制造业方面我们曾是加勒比英属殖民地的一颗明珠
　　Track Two
　　Chinese and the Indians would come over as indentured labour
　　中国人和印度人当时可以作为契约劳工去牙买加工作
　　After that there were other waves of Chinese coming into Jamaica
　　在那之后其他华人潮开始涌入牙买加
　　My great grandfathers on both my mother's and father's side were both from Guangzhou
　　我的两位曾祖父，即母系和父系的曾祖父都来自中国广州
　　There is that Chinese influence and when they came over a lot of them would have started businesses – grocery shops, restaurants, laundries
　　当中国人到来时也带来了文化影响，他们中的很多人开始了各种营生—开杂货店，餐厅及洗衣店
　　They are known for that sort of business
　　他们因此而家喻户晓
　　They would have mixed with local women – both my great grandmothers were local women
　　他们与当地女性通婚———我的两位曾祖母都是当地人
　　Even in Jamaica today people would identify me as mixed with Chinese
　　甚至现在人们也会认为我是牙中混血
　　As opposed to here where one of the most common comments I get here is “are you from South Africa, are you from America”
　　而在这儿（中国）我常听到的正好相反的来自人们的评论之一就是“你来自南非吗？你来自美国吗？”
　　I say no I am from Jamaica – but they do not see the Chinese mix – but it is evident in Jamaica that I am mixed with Chinese
　　我说不是，我来自牙买加———但是他们没有看出我的中国血统，但在牙买加，很明显可以看出我是中牙混血。
　　It is very interesting this notion of identity and of race
　　这个身份和种族的概念很有趣
　　People are asking me “well what are you?”
　　人们会问我“你到底是什么？”
　　And I say I am Jamaican and what does it mean to be Jamaican?
　　我会说，我是牙买加人，而身为牙买加人这意味着什么？
　　Not only am I mixed with Chinese I am mixed with black, Hispanic – my grandfather's parents were from Ecuador
　　我不仅是中牙混血人，而且我与黑人、西班牙人混血——我的祖父的母亲来自厄瓜多尔。
　　And we have some Scottish roots as well
　　而且我们也有苏格兰渊源
　　My last name is Cann – my grandmother's Chinese name is Xing Gao – I think that was also because we could not pronounce the Chinese
　　我的姓是 肯———我祖母的汉语名字是 高星———我认为这也是我不懂得汉语发音的缘故
　　So a lot of names got changed when you came into the colonies – to fit the English mandate to register in the colonies
　　因此当你来到殖民地，很多名字都改变了———来适应殖民地登记注册的命令