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  3. When I was growing up we used to get American TV shows rebroadcast on our stations. Most of them were dubbed (配音) into African l

When I was growing up we used to get American TV shows rebroadcast on our stations. Most of them were dubbed (配音) into African l

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问题     When I was growing up we used to get American TV shows rebroadcast on our stations. Most of them were dubbed (配音) into African languages. ALF was in Afrikaans. Transformers was in Sotho. But if you wanted to watch them in English, the original American audio would be simulcast (同步播放) on the radio. You could mute your TV and listen to that. Watching those shows, I realized that whenever black people were on-screen speaking in African languages, they felt familiar to me. They sounded like they were supposed to sound. Then I’d listen to them in simulcast on the radio, and they would all have black American accents. My perception of them changed. They didn’t feel familiar. They felt like foreigners.
    Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says "We’ re the same. " A language barrier says "We’ re different. " The architects of apartheid understood this. Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well. In the Bantu schools, children were only taught in their home language. Zulu kids learned in Zulu. Tswana kids learned in Tswana. Because of this, we’d fall into the trap the government had set for us and fight among ourselves, believing that we were different.
    The great thing about language is that you can just as easily use it to do the opposite • convince people that they are the same. Racism teaches us that we are different because of the color of our skin. But because racism is stupid, it’s easily tricked. If you’ re racist and you meet someone who doesn’t look like you, the fact that he can’t speak like you reinforces your racist preconceptions j He’s different, less intelligent. A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, "Eh, I don’t trust this guy. "
    However, if the person who doesn’t look like you speaks like you, your brain short-circuits because your racism program has none of those instructions in the code. "Wait, wait, " your mind says, " the racism code says if he doesn’t look like me he isn’t like me, but the language code says if he speaks like me he…is like me? Something is off here. I can’t figure this out. "
What will Americans probably say about a Mexican scientist who speaks broken English?
选项 A、He is unreliable.
B、He is very intelligent.
C、He should return to Mexico.
D、He should improve his English.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。由第三段最后一句话可知，一个杰出的科学家可以从墨西哥边境来到美国居住，但如果他说一口蹩脚的英语，人们会说：“呃，我不信任这个家伙。”故选A。
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