主题：【整理】 我来撕下自由世界的假面具 -- 懒虫123

我想知道当年中央美院在广场上立美女像的时候知道不知道这些。现在知道了这些，对当年的行为有什么感想？想对所有人做个采访。呵呵，和气生财。

今天的面坨了，不好吃。

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1885年华人在美国写的一封信

事情发生在1885年，法国把自由女神塑像捐赠给纽约，有好事者号召美国公民捐款修建自由女神塑像下的园林。美籍华人Saum Song Bo为此写了一封信，这封信首先刊登在【纽约太阳报】，后来转载在【美国牧师】月刊上。信中说：

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先生：

昨天我收到一篇让我审阅的文章，这是一篇专门号召美籍华裔老乡捐款给自由女神园林基金的文章。题目是号召美国公民的，号召热爱美国和自由的美国公民。我和我的老乡对被视为热爱自由的美国公民而感到荣幸，但我不能不面对这样的事实，美国对所有族裔都是自由的，却偏偏把华裔排除在自由之外。鉴于这样的事实，号召我们为自由女神捐款实在是对我们华裔的侮辱。自由女神高举的火炬照亮了各国移民来到美国的道路，但是，他允许中国人移民美国吗？定居在美国的华裔能够享受到和其它族裔一样的自由吗？华裔能够向其它族裔一样不受侮辱、攻击、摧残、诬陷和歧视地在这里自由迁徒吗？

如果一个中国佬来到美国，以优异成绩在美国大学毕业，全心拥抱美国的自由理念，决心在这里定居，他看到他的同胞需要有自己的法律顾问，自己的法律代表，自己的法律诉求和法律保护，他想学习成为一名律师，中国佬的他能够实行这个愿望吗？根据美国法律，只因为他是华裔，他就不能成为公民，更不能成为律师。

而捐赠自由女神塑像的是这样一个国家，它即不爱中国人，也不认为中国人值得有自由。安南的中国人难道就不能和法国人一样拥有自由吗？为什么法国要剥夺他们的自由？

中国人确实热爱自由崇拜自由，但是，那些剥夺了我们自由的人凭什么塑造一个自由女神像让我们去崇拜。

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1885年中法战争结束，法国把中国的藩邦越南割为法国殖民地。1885年是美国通过《排华法案》后的第三年。

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下面这个链接是原文出处：

http://caamedia.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/statuepop.html

A Protest Against the Statue of Liberty

Author: Saum Song Bo

Date:1885

Annotation: In the pages of a missionary magazine, Saum Song Bo describes the irony of erecting a Statue of Liberty just after the United States had enacted a law excluding Chinese from the United States.

Document: SIR: A paper was presented to me yesterday for inspection, and I found it to be specially drawn up for subscription among my countrymen toward the Pedestal Fund of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. Seeing that the heading is an appeal to American citizens, to their love of country and liberty, I feel that my countrymen and myself are honored in being thus appealed to as citizens in the cause of liberty. But the word liberty makes me think of the fact that this country is the land of liberty for men of all nations except the Chinese. I consider it as an insult to us Chinese to call on us to contribute toward building in this land a pedestal for a statue of Liberty. That statue represents Liberty holding a torch which lights the passage of those of all nations who come Into this country. But are the Chinese allowed to come? As for the Chinese who are here, are they allowed to enjoy liberty as men of all other nationalities enjoy it? Are they allowed to go about everywhere free from the insults, abuse, assaults, wrongs and injuries from which men of other nationalities are free?

If there be a Chinaman who came to this country when a lad, who has passed through an American institution of learning of the highest grade, who has so fallen in love with American manners and ideas that he desires to make his home in this land, and who, seeing that his countrymen demand one of their own number to be their legal adviser, representative, advocate and protector, desires to study law, can he be a lawyer? By the law of this nation, he, being a Chinaman, cannot become a citizen, and consequently cannot be a lawyer.

And this statue of Liberty is a gift to a people from another people who do not love or value liberty for the Chinese. Are not the Annamese and Tonquinese Chinese, to whom liberty is as dear as to the French? What right have the French to deprive them of their liberty?

Whether this statute against the Chinese or the statue to Liberty will be the more lasting monument to tell future ages of the liberty and greatness of this country, will be known only to future generations.

Liberty, we Chinese do love and adore thee; but let not those who deny thee to us, make of thee a graven image and invite us to bow down to it.