同样是毕业演讲，这位哥大博士才展示了华裔真风采！

中国留学生杨舒平作为学生代表在美国马里兰大学毕业典礼上的演讲引起了网络上广泛的讨论，热度延烧至今没有一点消退的意思。

在杨舒平的演讲中，赴美求学，为的是“Fresh Air”。而自己的家乡是个“必须要带口罩才能出门，不然就会生病”的城市。

杨舒平的演讲无疑带有强烈的话题性，但在文采和内涵上都不足以成为一篇好演讲。

什么是好的演讲？

不久前在美国哥伦比亚大学，同样作为亚裔学生代表上台演讲的喻俐雅，向我们展示了一名华裔学生的眼界和抱负。

哥大毕业演讲 十几年间迎来首位华裔学生代表

能作为学生代表在毕业礼上演讲，要经过严格的筛选。喻俐雅在研究了历届学生代表的演讲后发现，大家谈的都是“自己”和“未来”，而她想聊一聊“别人”，自己的父辈， 少数族裔，女性，毕业生们……最终，她的演讲稿被哥大选中，这才有了这一次精彩的演讲。

无论是在哥大的演讲还是采访中，喻俐雅多次提到：“我想要的，是每一个和我一样，曾经或正生活在多文化间的人，都可以完成从迷茫走向成功的自我认知的过程。”

对于“身份认知”的兴趣，源自喻俐雅丰富的人生经历。

出生于湖南长沙，2岁随父母移民德国，13岁时重回中国，就读于北京的德语学校。

在英国剑桥大学取得政治学士学位后， 喻俐雅又来到了美国哥伦比亚大学攻读政治哲学博士学位。自小受到多元文化和教育的熏陶，让喻俐雅能够熟练掌握中英德法四种语言，15岁那年，她还用德文创作了小说《红灯笼》，获得了德国居里文学基金会征文特别奖。

来到哥大攻读政治系的喻俐雅，研究方向是政治神经科学。她觉得，自己在亚洲人眼中过于“西化”，在西方人眼中又过于“东方”，自我身份认知上的矛盾和种族冲突上的切身体验，让她在政治学博士的研究中，专注于研究身份政治，并希望通过将政治学和神经学结合，发展出能够对社会大众有所帮助的政治神经学理论。

对于大多数人而言，政治神经学理论不过是一个晦涩难懂的名词，但对喻俐雅而言，这是一个能让“所有人快乐”的方法。

喻俐雅的演讲辞，可谓衔华佩实，兼具文采和立意。现摘录几段如下：

I am here today to talk about what Columbia means to me as a place – as an enigmatic place of arrival and possibility, as a place that marks my intellectual biography, as a tangible place in which a multitude of my identities found a space to speak to each other.

今天我发言的主题是，哥伦比亚大学作为一个“地方”，对我来说意味着什么：一个在我抵达时弥漫着无限可能性的神秘的地方，一个标记着我的智识成长的地方，一个为我的多重身份提供了相互对话空间的、有迹可寻的地方。

If, like me, you have ever wondered and despaired about who you are, how you are supposed to think, and how you are supposed to talk about yourself Yu Speech 3 in light of the often conflicting cultural, racial, linguistic and gender identities that you carry within you, then you will know that words such as belonging, home and liberation are not just abstract concepts but powerful and enticing sounds that compel you to explore them with an almost irrational yearning and resolution.

如果你和我一样，曾经在面对各种与生俱来却又常常相互冲突的文化、种族、语言和性别身份时，为你究竟是谁、究竟应当如何思考、究竟应当如何谈论自身，而困惑过、绝望过，那么你一定理解，像“归属”、“家园”、“解放”这样的词汇，绝不仅仅是抽象的概念，而是令人心神悸动的天籁，驱使你以一种近乎非理性的饥渴与决绝，去一探它们的究竟。

From my experience of not knowing which history was truly writing me, and which history I should help writing. From yearning for a place that I could call my intellectual home, where I belonged without being put into set identity categories, where I could ask questions and try to answer them in a crispness and unfussiness that allowed me to focus completely on the question itself.

源于我不知道哪家历史真正写就了我、我又应该帮助书写哪家历史的体验。源于我对一个可以称为我的智识家园的地方的向往：这样一个地方，能够给予我归属感，而不把我划入一系列身份范畴；能够允许我提出问题，并以一种干脆利落、不大惊小怪、令我得以全神贯注于问题本身的方式全力寻找答案。

A place where the beginning of each day was not marked by that stinging sense of shame that still too many of us who move from identity margins into the center Yu Speech 4 allow to wash over ourselves. I was looking for a place where it didn’t matter so much who you once were but where what you said, thought and responded to in this very moment in a seminar room, a research lab and a lecture hall, took on importance and reality. Columbia as a campus and New York as a city became that place where the words belonging, home and liberation could be uttered completely anew.

在这样一个地方，许许多多像我一样从身份认同的边缘地带迁至中心的人们，每天醒来时能够不必再被刺骨的羞愧感萦绕。我一直在寻找这样一个地方：在那里，你曾经是怎样的人不再重要；在那里，你每时每刻在研讨室、实验室、教室里的言谈、思考、回应，都能获得认真切实的对待。哥大这个校园，纽约这个城市，恰恰是这样一个令“归属”、“家园”、“解放”之类词汇焕发生机的地方。

However, I am not trying to idolize Columbia: my memory of Columbia is also marked by contestation of its place, and by who is represented and allowed entry here. I am thinking back of my time as student senator when I engaged in heated debates about Columbia’s global identity in light of ROTC’s return to campus, about Columbia’s responsibility to invest ethically, low-income students who confessed about their struggles with food stamps and finances, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, as well as the historic erection of a plaque that honors the Lenape people in 2016.

话说回来，我也并不想过分美化哥大：我对哥大的记忆同样包括了围绕对这个地方的解释权——谁能得到代表、谁被允许进入——的斗争。我还记得身为学生会代表参与的历次激烈讨论，比如因为预备军官训练团重新入驻校园而引起的就哥大全球身份的讨论，和关于哥大在投资方面的伦理责任的讨论，也记得低收入学生敞开心扉讲述他们面对食物券与财务困难的挣扎，记得“黑人性命举足轻重”的示威，记得2016年学校史无前例地树立了一块勒纳佩部落纪念碑。