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1、清華大學校長徐遐生博士致詞A-3國立清華大學校長徐遐生博士致詞HakkaandPublicPoliciesTheMeltingPotandtheRainbowDr.FrankHsia-SanShuPresidentNationalTsingHuaUniversityChairpersonYeh,ProfessorChang,HonoredGuests,Colleagues,ItismygreatpleasuretowelcometheCouncilofHakkaAffairstoNationalTsingHuaUnivers
2、ity.Theworkthatyouhavesetouttodoisanimportantone,andTsingHuaisproudtobeabletohelpinthepromotionofmulti-culturaldiversityinTaiwan.SomeofyoumayhaveheardthatIcamefromtheUnitedStatestohelpfosterexcellenceinresearchandeducationatTaiwanuniversities,particularlyatNational
3、TsingHuaUniversity.Infact,IcomefromtheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley,whichundertheleadershipofChancellorTienChangLinhadasitsmotto:“Excellencethroughdiversity.”BecauseIservedforatimeastheChairoftheCommitteeforAsian-AmericanAffairsatBerkeley,perhapsIcouldsharewithy
4、outhemeaningofthephrase“excellencethroughdiversity”asseenfromtheperspectiveofaChineserecentlyarrivedinTaiwanfromAmerica.Indeed,fromwhatIhavereadinthepapersandseeninlocaltelevisionreports,IbelievethattheongoingdebateinTaiwanconcerningthevalueofpreservingaboriginalan
5、dHakkaculturesandlanguageshasmanysimilaritiestotheAmericanexperienceofthepastfewdacades.WhenIwasachild,theAmericanpublicpolicyofachievingpoliticalharmonyinaculturallyandlinguisticallydiversesociety,derivedbyimmigrationfrommanycountries,wastheidealofthe“meltingpot.”
6、Themeltingpotconceptwasbasedontheprinciplethatademocracycouldnotachievepoliticalcohesivenessunlessitscitizenryspokeallspokeacommonnationallanguageandallhadthesamemoralandculturalvalues.Themeanstoachievethishomogeneitywastoassimilateimmigrantsandthechildrenofimmigra
7、ntsinaneducationalandsocietalframeworkthatdissolvedminorityculturalidentitiesandlanguages,withallcitizensimplicitlyacquiringthevirtues清華大學校長徐遐生博士致詞A-3andpracticesoftheAnglo-Saxonmajority.Unfortunately,thepracticewaslessperfectthantheprinciple.Intheircustoms,theirsp
8、eech,theirfoods,andtheirreligiousandculturalpractices,Africans,Asians,East-Europeans,Hispanics,andMiddle-Eastners,werealltoodifferentandalltoodis
