节选的原话--作者的理解：我觉得有一定道理

"I sensed that this was a small part of what contributed to the passivity with regard to the Three Gorges Project in Fuling.The vast majority of the people would not be directly affected by the coming changes, and so they weren’t concerned.Despite having large sections of the city scheduled to be flooded within the next decade, it wasn’t really a community issue, because there wasn’t a community as one would generally define it. There were lots of small groups, and there was a great deal of patriotism, but like most patriotism anywhere in the world, this was spurred as much by fear and ignorance as by any true sense of a connection to the Motherland.  And you could manipulate this fear and ignorance by telling people that the dam, even though it might destroy the river and the town, was of great importance to China.”
― Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

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• 还是没明白。。。不是说的因为爱国主义所以牺牲小团体利益？ -唐七巧- ♀ (207 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 13:04:58

• 大概这句话才是他真正要表达的吧： -小学六年级- ♀ (348 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 13:33:35