For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

翻译人员: Peipei Xiang 校对人员: Li Li

I'm a tourism entrepreneur and a peacebuilder,

我是一个旅游企业家以及和平建设者，

but this is not how I started.

不过我并不是一开始就做这行的。

When I was seven years old, I remember watching television

在我7岁那年，我记得在电视上看到

and seeing people throwing rocks,

别人丢石头，

and thinking, this must be a fun thing to do.

我在想：这一定很好玩！

So I got out to the street and threw rocks,

于是我走到大街上去丢石头，

not realizing I was supposed to throw rocks at Israeli cars.

而我不知道的是， 我应该向以色列的车丢石头，

Instead, I ended up stoning my neighbors' cars. (Laughter)

而我却砸了我邻居的车。（笑声）

They were not enthusiastic about my patriotism.

他们对我的这个爱国之举很无语。

This is my picture with my brother.

这是我跟我哥哥的照片。

This is me, the little one, and I know what you're thinking:

小的这个是我，我知道你在想什么：

"You used to look cute, what the heck happened to you?"

“你小时候挺可爱的，怎么长成了这样？”

But my brother, who is older than me,

我的哥哥，他比我大一些，

was arrested when he was 18,

在他18岁的时候被捕了，

taken to prison on charges of throwing stones.

他因丢石头被关进了监狱。

He was beaten up when he refused to confess that he threw stones,

当他拒绝承认他丢石头的时候， 他遭到了猛打，

and as a result, had internal injuries

结果他受了很严重了内伤，

that caused his death soon after he was released from prison.

导致他出狱不久后就死了。

I was angry, I was bitter,

我很生气，很愤愤不平，

and all I wanted was revenge.

我只想报复。

But that changed when I was 18.

不过这在我18岁的时候发生了改变。

I decided that I needed Hebrew to get a job,

我决定我需要学好希伯来语并找到一份工作，

and going to study Hebrew in that classroom

去课堂学习希伯来语

was the first time I ever met Jews who were not soldiers.

让我第一次见到不是士兵的犹太人。

And we connected over really small things, like the fact that I love country music,

我们很快找到了很多共同点， 比如我爱乡村音乐，

which is really strange for Palestinians.

虽然这在巴勒斯坦人中是很罕见的。

But it was then that I realized also that we have a wall of anger,

这段经历让我意识到

我们之间有一睹由愤怒、 仇恨和无知筑成的墙。

of hatred and of ignorance that separates us.

I decided that it doesn't matter what happens to me.

我意识到在我身上发生什么并不重要，

What really matters is how I deal with it.

重要的是我如何看待面对它。

And therefore, I decided to dedicate my life

于是，我决定把自己的生命

to bringing down the walls that separate people.

花在拆除这堵把我们分开的墙上。

I do so through many ways.

我有几个不同的途径。

Tourism is one of them, but also media and education,

旅游是其中一个，还有媒体和教育，

and you might be wondering, really, can tourism change things?

你可能在想： 真的吗？旅游能改变什么呢？

Can it bring down walls? Yes.

它能拆除这些墙吗？

是的！旅游是最好的 拆除这些墙的可持续途径，

Tourism is the best sustainable way to bring down those walls

and to create a sustainable way of connecting with each other

旅游可以成为连接对方和 创造友谊的可持续途径。

and creating friendships.

In 2009, I cofounded Mejdi Tours,

在2009年，我帮助创办了 Mejdi 旅游（Mejdi Tours），

a social enterprise that aims to connect people,

一个旨在把人与人连接起来的社会企业，

with two Jewish friends, by the way,

对了，我是跟两个犹太朋友一起创办的。

and what we'll do, the model we did,

我们是这样做的，

for example, in Jerusalem, we would have two tour guides,

比如在耶路撒冷，我们会有两个导游，

one Israeli and one Palestinian, guiding the trips together,

一个以色列人和一个巴勒斯坦人， 一起提供讲解，

telling history and narrative and archaeology and conflict

从完全不同的角度 讲解历史、发生的故事、考古和冲突。

from totally different perspectives.

I remember running a trip together with a friend named Kobi --

我记得和一个朋友 Kobi 一起讲解，

Jewish congregation from Chicago, the trip was in Jerusalem --

这是给来自芝加哥的一个犹太人团队讲解， 地点在耶路撒冷，

and we took them to a refugee camp, a Palestinian refugee camp,

我们把他们带到了一个难民区， 一个巴勒斯坦难民区，

and there we had this amazing food.

在那里我们吃了无比美味的食物。

By the way, this is my mother. She's cool.

对了，这是我的妈妈。她人很好。

And that's the Palestinian food called maqluba.

这是巴勒斯坦食物 maqluba，

It means "upside-down."

意思是“上下颠倒”。

You cook it with rice and chicken, and you flip it upside-down.

这是把米饭和鸡肉放在一起煮，然后再倒过来，

It's the best meal ever.

真是人间美味。

And we'll eat together.

我们会一起吃饭，

Then we had a joint band, Israeli and Palestinian musicians,

接着我们有一个联合乐队， 以色列和巴勒斯坦音乐人一起，

and we did some belly-dancing.

我们还跳了肚皮舞。

If you don't know any, I'll teach you later.

如果你不知道怎么跳，我可以等下教你。

But when we left, both sides,

等到我们离开的时候，所有的人都哭了，

they were crying because they did not want to leave.

因为他们不想离开。

Three years later, those relationships still exist.

三年过去了，这些友谊还在。

Imagine with me if the one billion people

请跟我一起想象一下如果10亿人——

who travel internationally every year travel like this,

也就是世界上每年旅行的人数， 都这样旅行，

not being taken in the bus from one side to another,

不是坐在大巴上从一个目的地到另一个目的地，

from one hotel to another,

从一个酒店到另一个酒店，

taking pictures from the windows of their buses of people and cultures,

在大巴上透过窗户拍窗外的人们和文化，

but actually connecting with people.

而是融入到当地的人和文化里面。

You know, I remember having a Muslim group from the U.K.

我记得一个来自英国的穆斯林团，

going to the house of an Orthodox Jewish family,

进入到一个正统的犹太教家庭里面，

and having their first Friday night dinners, that Sabbath dinner,

他们吃了他们的第一顿 星期五的安息日晚饭，

and eating together hamin, which is a Jewish food, a stew,

一起吃犹太食物 hamin，也就是杂烩，

just having the connection of realizing, after a while,

并在不久后意识到

that a hundred years ago, their families came out

一百年前，他们的祖先

of the same place in Northern Africa.

是从北非的同一个地方走出来的。

This is not a photo profile for your Facebook.

这不是一张你用来放在脸书上的头像照片，

This is not disaster tourism.

这不是灾区旅游，

This is the future of travel,

这是未来的旅游，

and I invite you to join me to do that, to change your travel.

我邀请你加入我们来改变你的旅游。

We're doing it all over the world now,

我们现在正在世界各地倡导这种旅游，

from Ireland to Iran to Turkey,

从爱尔兰到伊朗再到土耳其，

and we see ourselves going everywhere to change the world.

我们可以看到我们必将散播各地改变世界。

Thank you.

谢谢！

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