APAD: This land is your land

Meaning:

Self explanatory

 

Background:

Apparently this saying originates as the title of the well-known song written

and performed in 1956 by folk singer and guitarist Woody Guthrie which begins:

 

    This land is your land, this land is my land

    From California to the New York Island

    From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters

    This land was made for you and me.

 

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It took Andy Dufresne 17 years to escape Shawshank. It has been costing me much

longer to break out of this elected cultural prison. For some, home is just a

Wechat call or an airplane ticket away. But I've chosen adventure, until free on

a land that can finally be called mine.

 

 

所有跟帖： 

• Very well written. 赞一个！ -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:19:53

• Thank you. Appreciate it. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:29:00

• Absolutely agree, it's my land. It's funny many Chinese -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:46:13

• believe they live in others' home even after they become -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:47:56

• US citizens. Their "patriotism" is illusive and delusive. -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:51:33

• And they profess that they love their kids... -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 09:57:22

• 加拿大的民族政策被称作cultural mosaic,各个民族保持自己习惯，以至于某些移民3，4代以后国家认同感仍然不强 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 10:03:23

• 而美国人则让每一个移民成为美国人，接受美国价值观 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 10:04:21

• These values've been under threat according to "Who are we" -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 10:12:53

• by the late political scientist Samuel Huntington. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 10:13:25

• Maybe some suffering can make them appreciate Canada. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 10:08:13

• Every coin has two sides -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 11:54:40

• 哇！APAD不仅好看，还好听。有歌，有诗，有历史。APAD真是越来越精彩。美坛靓丽的风景线！ -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 11:19:22

• Thanks, capo. Different strokes for different folks :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 11:28:36

• This could've been a nice national anthem -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 14:38:05

• As could the turkey the national bird :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:56:51

• A land rich in natural recourses. -天边一片白云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 15:43:23

• A background for all the other stories. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:58:10

• How about those homeless? Is this land their land? -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:11:52

• 想起赵婷的电影《无依之地》，英文为啥取名Nomadland呢 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:35:10

• 我们就是游牧民族，逐水草而居。哪里给饭吃，就去哪生活：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:45:37

• 喔，吉普赛人的意思。明白了。谢谢分享。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 16:51:28

• It's not as bad as one may think. Many trapped in overpriced -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 19:06:15

• pigeon holes might dream of a nomad's life. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 19:07:22

• "By the relief office I see my people" the song says -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 17:00:08

• and asks the same question. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 17:01:10

• This land: Bush and Kerry compete for president of 2004. -方外居士- ♂ (194 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 18:04:06

• Haha! That's hilarious :-) Just to show how stories are told -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 19:01:39

• and bought! Thanks for sharing. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 19:02:04

• Glad to know you enjoy it! -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 19:44:03

• 今天的这个APAD小而全且精美！This APAD is my APAD :) Thanks for sharing. -CBA7- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 20:06:02

• Thanks for liking. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/19/2024 postreply 20:25:38