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And that is a great strength of the United States, because it means that we learn from different cultures and different foods and different ideas, and that has made us a much more dynamic society.
而這就是美國的力量所在，因為它意味著我們從不同的文化、不同的飲食和不同的想法中學到東西，這使我們的社會變得更加生機勃勃。
Now, what is also true is that each country in this interconnected world has its own culture and its own history and its own traditions. And I think it's very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody else. And we have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other countries.
與此同時，每個國家在相互連通的世界中都擁有自己的文化、自己的歷史和自己的傳統(tǒng)。因此，我認為對于美國來講重要的一點是，不能自認為對我們有利的東西也一定會給其他人帶來好處。我們在對待其他國家時態(tài)度應當謙虛。
I have to say, though, as I said in my opening remarks, that we do believe that there are certain fundamental principles that are common to all people, regardless of culture. So, for example, in the United Nations we are very active in trying to make sure that children all around the world are treated with certain basic rights -- that if children are being exploited, if there's forced labor for children, that despite the fact that that may have taken place in the past in many different countries, including the United States, that all countries of the world now should have developed to the point where we are treating children better than we did in the past. That's a universal value.
但我必須說明，正如我在開場白中所說的那樣，我們確實認為一些基本原則是人所共有的，不論文化背景如何。例如，在聯(lián)合國，我們非常積極地努力確保世界各地的兒童都享有某些基本權(quán)利——如果兒童受到剝削，如果他們被強迫做童工，盡管以前在包括美國在內(nèi)的許多國家都可能發(fā)生過這樣的事情，但是世界上所有的國家現(xiàn)在都應當發(fā)展到能以比過去更好的方式對待兒童的程度。這是一種普世價值觀。
I believe, for example, the same thing holds true when it comes to the treatment of women. I had a very interesting discussion with the Mayor of Shanghai during lunch right before I came, and he informed me that in many professions now here in China, there are actually more women enrolled in college than there are men, and that they are doing very well. I think that is an excellent indicator of progress, because it turns out that if you look at development around the world, one of thebest indicators of whether or not a country does well is how well it educates its girls and how it treats its women. And countries that are tapping into the talents and the energy of women and giving them educations typically do better economically than countries that don't.
我相信在對待婦女的態(tài)度上也是如此。我在來這里之前同上海市長共進午餐并進行了很有意思的討論，他告訴我現(xiàn)在中國高等院校中有很多專業(yè)的在校女生實際上比男生多，而且她們的學習非常好。我認為這是一個極好的進步指標，因為縱觀世界各地的發(fā)展就會看到，一個國家的發(fā)展是否成功的最重要指標之一，就是該國女童受教育的情況以及婦女享有的待遇。而那些能夠發(fā)揮婦女的聰明才智和能量，并能為她們提供良好教育的國家，通常比那些沒有這么做的國家有更好的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展。
