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Generational differences at work
A psychologist studies ways to help traditionalists, baby boomers, gen Xers and millennials work better together, despite their generational differences.
MELISSA DITTMANN
Monitor Staff
June 2005, Vol 36, No. 6
Print version: page 54
In the past few years, psychologist Constance Patterson, PhD, has fielded calls from K-12 school administrators concerned about the work ethic of a few of her thirtysomething school psychology interns. To some of the administrators, the interns appear uncommitted to their jobs, working only the required hours and little more. They tend to seek more balance between their work and professional lives than the more senior administrators are accustomed to seeing.
The interns, on the other hand, are often baffled by these older administrators' tendency to quickly dismiss their new ideas and resist change.
Patterson, a training director for the Louisiana School Psychology Internship Consortium, believes some of the differences may stem from generational diversity in the workplace. Every generation is influenced by its period's economic, political and social events--from the Great Depression to the civil rights and women's movements to the advent of television and advanced computer technologies--so it follows that generational context also may affect the way they work, Patterson says.
Along with a number of other researchers, she is taking note of these generational differences--from the technological savvy of many younger workers to the play-by-the-rules approach of some older workers--in the hopes of better understanding how generational diversity may affect work dynamics.
While obviously not every traditionalist, baby boomer, gen Xer or millennial may fit within their generational stereotype (see chart), Patterson believes that taking note of generational diversity is still important, especially since intergenerational conflict in the workplace may keep plans, products and ideas from moving forward.
"A lack of understanding across generations can have detrimental effects on communication and working relationships and undermine effective services," says Patterson.
She is seeking to explore the existence of such effects--and what can be done to ease conflict. As a beginning, she conducted a literature review on generational diversity, which revealed some findings in the business-management research, but little in the psychological literatures. She hopes to one day conduct applied empirical studies on generational differences--and that other psychologists will join her, especially since many psychologists may be noticing generational diversity among their students, patients, colleagues and study participants.
Generational diversity
For example, in the last decade, University of Maryland Psychology Professor Ruth F. Fassinger, PhD, has observed several differences in the work habits of younger and older women in interviews she's conducted with more than 100 prominent women across an array of occupational fields. In particular, the younger women tend to more often question workplace expectations, such as long work hours or taking work home, and they often are more open about their parenting obligations and commitments.
Some studies suggest that such differences are, in part, accounted for by workers' values shifting as they age. For example, business-management researchers Karen Wey Smola and Charlotte D. Sutton, PhD, surveyed 350 baby boomers and gen Xers in 1974 and 1999 and found an overall change in work values as generations matured, such as giving work a lower priority in life and placing less value in feeling a sense of pride at work. The study appeared in the April 2002 issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior (Vol. 23, No. 4, pages 363-382). Despite that finding, the study also found generational differences, such as that gen Xers report less loyalty to their companies, wanting to be promoted more quickly and being more "me-oriented" than baby boomers.
Working in teams
Such generational differences sometimes may cause clashes in the workplace, especially among workers on teams, Patterson notes. For example, she says, boomers may believe gen Xers are too impatient and willing to throw out the tried-and-true strategies, while gen Xers may view boomers as always trying to say the right thing to the right person and being inflexible to change. Traditionalists may view baby boomers as self-absorbed and prone to sharing too much information, and baby boomers may view traditionalists as dictatorial and rigid. And, gen Xers may consider millennials too spoiled and self-absorbed, while millennials may view gen Xers as too cynical and negative.
To prepare her interns to better work with older and younger colleagues, Patterson holds a workshop every fall for her school psychology interns on generational diversity. During the workshop, she teaches them ways to work more effectively in teams by evaluating generational influences between themselves and others. For school psychologists, she notes, this is especially vital since so much of their work is done in interdisciplinary teams--composed of teachers, administrators and parents.
Patterson encourages members of these teams to seek a balance between building on traditional procedures and supporting flexibility and creativity to effectively blend generations' work ethics.
"A team that allows choices and openly explores ideas, and whose members value learning, will better accommodate the needs and values of members of different generations," Patterson says.
Furthermore, she says, effective teams should value different views, encourage active listening, decrease ambiguity among team members' roles, support the sharing of expertise, share recognition and appreciation, value hard work and build in humor and fun to their meetings.
For example, effective messages from team members for traditionalists may be, "Your experience is respected," or "It is valuable to hear what has worked in the past," Patterson notes. Baby boomers may need to hear such messages as, "You are valuable, worthy," or "Your contribution is unique and important to our success." Meanwhile, gen Xers may need to hear messages like "Let's explore some options outside of the box" or "Your technical expertise is a big asset," whereas millennials may seek similar messages to, "You will be collaborating with other bright, creative people," or "You have really rescued this situation with your commitment."
Patterson encourages her interns and other psychologists to raise others' awareness of generational differences.
After all, each generation brings a unique perspective to work-related tasks, she says.
"If we don't talk about why we're different and our different perspectives, we don't come to the best decisions," Patterson says. "The more people are willing to invest in honest communication about these issues, the better the outcome."
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There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian A there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue S Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported4it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire s the hope of immigrants setting ou the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong D the hope of a millworker's son who da the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. The audacity of hope!In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the be the belie the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us.Thank you very much everybody and God bless you.基调演讲 摘自《巴拉克?奥巴马》 。 伟大的伊利诺伊州既是全国的交通枢纽，也是林肯的故乡，作为州代表，今天我 将在大会致词， 并为自己能有幸获此殊荣而倍感骄傲和自豪。今晚对我而言颇不 寻常， 我们得承认， 我能站在这里本身就已意义非凡。 我父亲是一个外国留学生， 他原本生于肯尼亚的一个小村庄，并在那里长大成人。他小的时候还放过羊，上 的学校简陋不堪， 屋顶上仅有块铁皮来遮风挡雨。 而他的父亲， 也就是我的祖父，5不过是个普通的厨子，还做过家佣。 但祖父对父亲抱以厚望。 凭借不懈的努力和坚忍不拔的毅力，父亲荣获赴美留学 的机会，而且还拿到奖学金。美国这片神奇的土地，对于很多踏上这片国土的人 而言，意味着自由和机遇。还在留学期间，父亲与母亲不期而遇。母亲来自完全 不同的另一个世界，她生于堪萨斯的一个小镇。大萧条时期，外祖父为谋生计， 曾在石油钻井打工，还曾在农场务农。日军偷袭珍珠港后的第二天，他就自愿应 征入伍，在巴顿将军麾下，转战南北，横扫欧洲。在后方的家中，外祖母含辛茹 苦，抚养子女，并在轰炸机装配线上找了份活计。战后，依据士兵福利法案, 他 们通过联邦住宅管理局购置了一套房子，并举家西迁，谋求更大发展。 他们对自己的女儿也寄予厚望， 两家人虽然身在不同的非洲和美洲大陆，却有着 共同的梦想。 我的父母不仅不可思议地彼此相爱，而且还对这个国家有了不移的 信念。他们赐予我一个非洲名字，巴拉克，意为“上天福佑”, 因为他们相信， 在如此包容的国度中， 这样的名字不应成为成功的羁绊。 尽管他们生活并不宽裕， 还是想方设法让我接受当地最好的教育，因为在这样一个富足的国度中，无论贫 富贵贱， 都同样有机会发展个人的潜力。 现在他们都已不在人世， 不过， 我知道， 他们的在天之灵，此时此刻正在骄傲地关注着我。 今天，我站在这里，对自己身上这种特殊的血统而心怀感激，而且我知道父母的 梦想将在我的宝贝女儿身上继续延续；我站在这里，深知自己的经历只是千百万 美国故事中的沧海一粟， 更深知自己无法忘却那些更早踏上这片土地的先人，因 为若不是在美国，我的故事无论如何都不可能发生。今夜，我们聚集一堂，再次 证明这个国度的伟大之处， 而这一切并不在于鳞次栉比的摩天大厦，也不在于傲 视群雄的军备实力， 更不在于稳健雄厚的经济实力。我们的自豪与荣耀来自一个 非常简单的前提，两百多年前，它在一个著名的宣言中得以高度的概括： “我们 认为以下真理不言而喻，人生来平等，造物主赐与他们以下不可剥夺的权利：生 命、自由和对幸福的追求。 ” 这才是真正的美国智慧，坚信自己的国民有着朴素无华的梦想， 坚信点滴的奇 迹终会出现在身边。入夜，当我们为孩子掖好小被的同时，相信他们不会为衣食 所累，不会为安全担忧。我们可以畅所欲言，无需担心不速之客会不请自来。我 们有灵感，有想法，可以去实现，去创业，无须行贿或雇佣某些人物的子女作为6筹码和条件。我们可以参政议政，不必担心打击报复，我们的选票至关重要，至 少多数情况下，都是如此。 在今年的选举中， 特别重申了我们主张的价值和肩负的责任，以此来应对当下的 艰难现实：并希望了解怎样才能更好秉承前辈的遗产，实现对子孙的承诺。诸位 美国国民，无论你是民主党，还是共和党，抑或是无党派人士，今晚我想对大家 说的是： 我们需要作的事情还有很多很多， 在伊利诺伊州盖尔斯堡(Gale□□urg), 由于 Maytag 洗衣机厂要迁至墨西哥，很多工人将失去工作，而现在唯一的选择 就是和自己的子女一起竞争每小时 7 美元的低薪工作。 我曾遇到一位强忍泪水的 父亲，他也因此丢掉了工作，没有了经济来源，不知怎样才能为儿子支付得起每 月 4500 美元的高昂医药费用，本可救命的医疗保险对他而言却遥不可及，我们 应该为他们做点什么；在东圣路易斯市，有这样一个年轻女孩，她品学兼优，成 绩出色，却因为没有钱，无法完成学业，与大学无缘，而像她这样的孩子还有千 千万万，我们应该为他们做点什么。 请正面理解我的意思。我在城市与乡镇，在餐厅和办公楼停车场，接触过很多民 众，他们并不期待由政府出面，帮他们排忧解难。而是清楚地意识到，需要通过 努力工作，去面对和解决所有的问题，而这也确实是他们真实的想法和愿望。走 进芝加哥周边的城镇，大家会告诉你，希望自己辛苦缴纳的税款能够物尽其用， 而不是让社会保障机构或五角大楼任意支配。 走进市中心的街区， 大家会告诉你， 让孩子好好读书不能仅仅依靠政府的力量，父母也要尽职尽责，培养下一代，不 让孩子整天沉溺于电视，对于黑人而言，更要和白人一样，让子女有接受教育的 权利，而不是相反。人们并不是依赖政府来解决所有问题，但他们真诚地认为， 只要政府把工作的重点有所调整， 就可以使得每个孩子都能奋发图强， 积极向上， 让机遇大门向每个人敞开。 他们深知， 我们有能力做得更好， 他们同样希望如此。 在本次选举中， 我们做出了这样的选择。民主党已选出一国之中品行最为高尚的 人作为我们的领袖，带领大家实现这样的选择。他就是约翰?凯利, 他深刻地领 悟了社区、信念和献身精神这些崇高的理想，因为这些铸就了他生命的全部。他 曾在越南英勇作战，回国后出任过检察官和副州长，在美国参议院度过了 20 个 春秋，把全部精力都投入到国家社稷大业之中。多少次，他面对艰难抉择，知难 而上，不畏艰险，他的阅历和品行为我们树立了榜样。7约翰?凯利坚信，在美国，付出就会有回报，因此，对于那些在本土创造就业机 会的公司， 他会在税收上给与优惠，而将工作机会输送到海外的公司则不会享受 到如此待遇。他坚信，美国应该实现标准的医疗保险，对普通百姓和华盛顿的政 治家都一视同仁。 他坚信能源自主的重要性，因此我们不会再因石油公司对利润 的追求， 或对国外油田的破坏而遭致威胁。 他坚信美国应该成为世人艳羡的国度， 因为国民的自由受到宪法的保护。他永远都不会让大家的基本自由受到影响，更 不会以信仰为借口，来制造分裂。他还坚信当今世界的确存在危险因素，战争在 所难免，但战争永远不会成为解决争端的首选。 前不久，在伊利诺伊州东莫林市的外战老兵俱乐部里，我偶遇一个年轻人，他叫 沙莫斯，身高足有 2 米，相貌英俊，目光清澈，笑容可掬。他说自己加入了海军 陆战队, 一周后就将进驻伊拉克。当我听他讲述入伍的原因时，他讲到了对我们 国家和领导人的绝对信赖， 对军队的无上忠诚以及自身强烈的责任感，这让我感 受到他身上具备的优良品质正是我们对子女的所有期待。然而，当我扪心自问： 我们为他所做的一切， 是否能与他的付出相当呢? 我想到这次战争中已有 900 多 名军人战死沙场，他们也有自己的家人和邻友，也许已是为人父母，还有年迈的 双亲，却再也无法回到这些关爱他们的人身边。我想到自己遇到的那些家庭，他 们或是要应对亲人阵亡， 收入锐减所来的经济窘境，或是要面对肢体残缺的家人 复原归来， 甚至精神崩溃， 却因其预备役军人的身份而无法享受长期的健康补贴， 生活变得举步维艰。 当这些可爱的年轻人舍身踏上征程，我们责无旁贷地要确认 做出出兵决定的所有数据和理由确凿无误；我们责无旁贷地要替他们照顾好家 人，而当他们荣归故里时，要关照他们的生活；当决定要介入战争、保卫和平和 赢得世界的尊重之时， 我们责无旁贷地要派驻足够数量的军队，以确保战士能凯 旋而归。 请允许我阐明下述观点：在世界上，确实有人与我们为敌，我们必须找到他们， 并予以坚决打击，获取胜利。约翰?凯利深知这一点，正如身为上尉的他在越南 战场上出生入死，保护自己的下属一样，若他身为总统，也同样会义无反顾地运 用军队的力量确保国家的安全。 他对美国充满信心，而且深知仅有部分公民实现 生活的富足还远远不够， 而这要仰仗与我们闻名于世的个人主义相伴的另一种元 素，正是因为它们，美国史册才熠熠生辉。8这就是我们作为一个民族荣辱与共的信仰。假如，芝加哥南部的一个孩子无法读 书识字，即便他与我非亲非故，我也会心怀忐忑。如果有位老人因无法支付高昂 的医疗费用，不得不在治病和租房之间痛苦抉择，即便她与我素未谋面，我也会 如坐针毡， 。假如，一个阿拉伯裔的美国家庭未经律师辩护，或诉讼程序就遭受 不公正待遇，同样会让我寝食难安。正是这个基本信仰让这个国家发展到今天： 我们都是一家人，我们都是兄弟姐妹。只有这样我们才能实现个人的梦想，才能 成为一个美利坚大家庭。独木不成林，单弦不成音。 当我们在这里聚会的时候， 也有人正准备分裂我们，那些操纵舆论的人和制作负 面宣传的人，他们投身没有原则和不择手段的政治。今晚，我需要对这些人讲得 是，美国人没有所谓自由和保守之分，世间只存在一个美利坚合众国。更没有所 谓美国白人黑人之分，拉丁裔和亚裔之分，有的只是美利坚合众国一国的国民。 有博学家愿意将我们的国家分成红蓝两色，红色代表共和党，蓝色代表民主党。 但我想说得是即便在民主党中， 我们也都信奉万能的主，我们不喜欢联邦的机构 在共和党中间对我们的藏书指指点点， 我们在民主党中也有人执教少年棒球联 盟，在共和党中也有同性恋朋友，有爱国人士支持伊拉克战争，也有爱国人士反 对就伊出兵。我们都是一国之民，都效忠于伟大的星条旗，所有的人都热爱我们 的祖国――美利坚合众国。 说到底， 这才是本次选举的意义所在：我们所参与的政治应该是愤世嫉俗还是充 满希望? 约翰?凯利号召我们要对未来满怀希望。这并不是说要盲目乐观。以为 只要不谈论失业问题，这个问题就会自行消失；认为只要无视医疗危机的存在， 它也会烟消云散。我所谈的是更为根本的问题。是因为存在希望，奴隶们围坐在 火堆边，才会吟唱自由之歌；是因为存在希望才使得人们愿意远涉重洋，移民他 乡；是因为希望，年轻的海军上尉才会在湄公河三角州勇敢的巡逻放哨，是因为 希望，出身工人家庭的孩子才会敢于挑战自己的命运；是因为希望，我这个名字 怪怪的瘦小子才相信美国这片热土上也有自己的容身之地。这就是无畏的希望。 最后，感谢上苍赐予我们最好的礼物，也就是这个国家赖以生存的基石，因为我 们相信最好的东西尚未出现， 更好的日子就在明天，我相信我们可以为中产阶级 减负，让工人家庭走上希望之路，我相信我们可以为无业者创造就业机会，为无 家可归者带来可以遮风挡雨的屋顶， 让美国城市中年轻人从暴力和绝望的阴影中9走出来。我相信今天的我们就站在历史的十字街头，我们可以做出正确的选择， 迎接面临的挑战。感谢你们每一位！愿上帝保佑你们！Iowa Caucus Night Des Moines, IA | January 03, 2008Thank you, Iowa.You know, they said this day would never come.They said our sights were set too high.They said this cou too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.But on this January night - at this defining moment in history - you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. You have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America can do in this New Year, 2008. In lines that stretched around
you came together as Democrats, Republicans and Independents to stand up and say th and our time for change has come.You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that's consumed W to end the political strategy that's been all about division and instead make it about addition - to build a coalition for change that stretches through Red States and Blue States. Because that's how we'll win in November, and that's how we'll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.10We are choosing hope over fear. We're choosing unity over division, and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.You said the time has come to tell the lobbyists who think their money and their influence speak louder than our voices that they don't own this government, and we are here to take it back.The time has come for a President who will be honest about the choices and th who will listen to you and learn from you e who won't just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know. And in New Hampshire, if you give me the same chance that Iowa did tonight, I will be that president for America.Thank you.I'll be a President who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American the same way I expanded health care in Illinois - by--by bringing Democrats and Republicans together to get the job done.I'll be a President who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of the working Americans who deserve it.I'll be a President who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all.And I'll be a President who ends this war in Iraq and finally br who restore who understands that 9/11 is not a way to scare up votes, but a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the twenty- common threats of terrorism11climat genocide and disease.Tonight, we are one step closer to that vision of America because of what you did here in Iowa. And so I'd especially like to thank the organizers and t the volunteers and the staff who made this all possible.And while I'm at it, on &thank yous,& I think it makes sense for me to thank the love of my life, the rock of the Obama family, the closer o give it up for Michelle Obama.I know you didn't do this for me. You did this-you did this because you believed so deeply in the most American of ideas - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.I know this-I know this because while I may be standing here tonight, I'll never forget that my journey began on the streets of Chicago doing what so many of you have done for this campaign and all the campaigns here in Iowa - organizing, and working, and fighting to make people's lives just a little bit better.I know how hard it is. It comes with little sleep, little pay, and a lot of sacrifice. There are days of disappointment, but sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this a night-a night that, years from now, when we've made the c when more families can af when our children-when Malia and Sasha and your children-inherit a planet that's a litt when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less div you'll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.This was the moment when the improbable beat what Washington always said was inevitable.12This was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long when we rallied people of all parties and ag when we finally gave Americans who'd never participated in politics a reason to stand up and to do so.This was the moment when we finally beat back the politics of fear, and doubt, the politics where we tear each other down instead of lifting this country up. This was the moment.Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment - this was the place - where America remembered what it means to hope.For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope.But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the young woman in Cedar Rapids who works the night shift after a full day of college and still can't afford health care for a sister who' a young woman who still believes that this country will give her the chance to live out her dreams.Hope is what I heard in the voice of the New Hampshire woman who told me that she hasn't been able to breathe since her nephew left for I who still goes to bed each night praying for his safe return.Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise
what led the greatest13of generations to free a contine what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause.Hope-hope-is what led me here today - with a father from K a mother from K and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the be the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle fo who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.That is what we started here in Iowa, and that is the message we can now carry to New H the same message we had when we were up a the one that can change this country brick by brick, block by block, calloused hand by calloused hand - that together, ordinary people can do
because we are not a collection of Red States and Blue States, we are the United States of A and at this moment, in this election, we are ready to believe again. Thank you, Iowa.谢谢你，爱荷华。他们说，这天永不会来到；他们说，我的心智太高；他们说，美国已经太 分裂、太失望，无法再合力成就一件事。 今年一月，你们改写了历史，打了怀疑论者一记耳光。 不论你是民主、共 和、独立党，今天我们一起站出来说：我们是一家人、我们马上要改变。 你们齐声说：我们要跨越政客习以为常的苦毒、琐屑、愤怒、政治手段、 分裂，我们要合力创造跨越党派颜色的改变平台，唯有这样，才能面对美国眼前 的所有挑战。 我们选择希望而不是恐惧，我们选择团结而不是分裂，我们要让全美国知 道： 是改变的时候了！ 我们要告诉权力说客： 你们的钱买不下美国政府， （人 我们14民）才是美国的主人。 今天，大家需要的，是能诚实面对我们眼前挑战、抉择的总统。一个会倾 听不同意见、向你们学习的总统、一个敢说逆耳忠言的总统。 谢谢你们。 我知道你们不是为我。 我知道你们不是为我，是为了你们对美国精神的深沉信仰：就是，只要努 力，爱国的人应可以改变这个国家。 我也相信，因为尽管我今天站在这里，但我没忘掉自己在芝加哥街头奋争 的日子，我们共同争取的目标，是让大家日子都过得好一点。 我知道大家都辛苦，睡眠不足、薪资很低、大量牺牲。每天满是失望，但 偶尔、偶尔就会出现像今晚这样的日子：多年后回头看我们起步改革的从头，到 时更多家庭看得起医生； 到时我们长大的孩子活在比今天更干净、 安全的环境里； 到时世界对美国、美国对自己的观感都更一致、更团结；到时我们就可以对自己 骄傲地说：一切都始于那天晚上。 当时， 我们打败了华府政客的怀疑； 当时， 我们拆毁隔绝我们彼此的心墙； 当时，我们团结所有人民、政党、年龄层为共同目标奋斗；当时，我们给从没参 与过政治的美国人一个值得参与的理由。 当时，我们击垮对政治持恐惧、怀疑、讥讽态度的人；击垮那些用政治打 击对手、而非用政治提升国家的人。数年后，当你回首，就在此时，美国人民重 新找回希望的意义。 这几个月，许多人都嘲笑我重提「希望」这个词。但我知道，希望，不是 盲目的乐观、不是无视沉重的前途路碍、不是躲在场下不敢正面直击。希望，是 我内在的坚持，尽管所有客观证据都是负面的，但我内心坚持只要有勇气追求、 奋争，前面一定有更好的美景等着。 希望，是我看到这位白天打工、晚上补课，付不出钱让妹妹上医院治病， 但内心仍相信美国会给她机会实现梦想的年轻女子。 希望，是我听到新罕普夏州这位女士告诉我，她从┳痈耙晾饲跋吣翘 起就呼吸困难，但仍每天晚上跪祷，祈求┳悠桨补槔础 希望，是我读到一群专栏作者，群起鞑伐帝国主义，启发年轻男女愿意力15抗消防水柱的强力水压，为自由、反奴役抗争。 希望，是引领我，这个父亲是肯亚移民、母亲是肯萨斯州住民的后裔，站 在这里的缘起。 希望，是这个国家的基石：相信我们的命运不是命定、是我们每个人自己走出来 的信念；是我们这群不愿将就现状、有胆向世界说： 「我们觉得应该这样」的男 女共同的信仰。 今晚，我们在爱荷华州，就写下这样的一页历史，不论未来我们的成败， 这个希望都不会变：我们只要一砖一瓦、一石一担、胼手胝足，平凡人也可成就 非凡的事；因为我们不只是一帮红、蓝的政党组合，我们是美国。 此时此刻， 这场选举，我们已经重新开始「相信」 。 谢谢你，爱荷华。Speech of Nomination for President: The American Promise (Democratic Convention) Denver, CO | August 28, 2008To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick D and to all my fellow citizens With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled the farthest - a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as to Ted Kennedy, who embodies t and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home16every night.To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Malia I love you so much, and I'm so proud of all of you.Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive.We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.17America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and familie that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: &Eight is enough.&Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and respect. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about18your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives - on health care and education and the economy - Senator McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has made &great progress& under this President. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a &mental recession,& and that we've become, and I quote, &a nation of whiners.& A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are not whiners. They work hard and give back and keep going without complaint. These are the Americans that I know.Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy 19give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. You're on your own.Well it's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to change America.You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country.We measure progress by how many people can find a job th whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush.We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work.The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great - a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in20Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked a who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships.When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant closed.And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. And it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United States.What is that promise?It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we21will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect.It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road.Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves - protect us from harm and provide every chil keep our water cle invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise o the fundamental belief that I am my brother' I am my sister's keeper.That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President.Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will22create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close.As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next ge an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.America, now is not the time for small plans.Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global23economy. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. I'll invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. And we will keep our promise to every young American - if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO and the time to protect Social Security for future generations.And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out how I'll pay for every dime - by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don't help America grow. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century24bureaucracy.And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called our &intellectual and moral strength.& Yes, government must lead on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we must also admit that programs alone can' that government can't turn off the television and make a c that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need.Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise.And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.For while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. When John McCain said we could just &muddle through& in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been25echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.That's not the judgment we need. That won't keep America safe. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -- Democrats and Republicans - have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and n
climate change and disease. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is26once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future.These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain.But what I will not do is suggest that the Senator takes his positions for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism.The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. And that's what we have to restore.We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely27we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination. Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. This too is part of America's promise - the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.You make a big election about small things.And you know what - it's worked before. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn't work, all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know.I get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington.But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me. It's been about you.For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take28is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.America, this is one of those moments.I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming. Because I've seen it. Because I've lived it. I've seen it in Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more families from welfare to work. I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.And I've seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when t that binds us together in spit that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around29the bend.That promise is our greatest inheritance. It's a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours - a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pio a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot.And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.&We cannot walk alone,& the preacher cried. &And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.&America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.30Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.奥巴马演讲稿（中英文对照） 23:34Hello, Chicago. 您好，芝加哥。there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. 如果仍有人怀疑美国 是否是一个能创造奇迹的国度的话， 如果还有人仍在疑虑我们美国的缔造者的梦 想是否还在我们这个时代存续的话，如果还有人仍在质疑我们民主的力量的话， 那么，今晚就给你答案。It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference. 排起的长队就是答案： 云集于学校和教堂周围 的人们盛况空前，他们等待了三四个小时，其中许多人还是生平首次经历选举。 因为他们坚信：这次结果必定不同，这就是他们的心声。It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America. 无论老幼、 穷富； 民主党还是共和党； 黑人、白人；拉美裔、亚裔、原居民；同性恋、非同性恋；残疾人、健全人。这 是全体美国人民共同的抉择。美国向全世界传递一个声音：美国不是乌合之众， 也没红州或蓝州之分。 我们是，而且永远是，一个整体的美国。It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of31history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. 这也是对一直以来那 些讽刺、担忧和质疑者作出的回答：我们会把握历史的舵轮、使之驶向充满希望 的美好未来。It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America. 虽然等待了很长时 间，但在今晚，通过选举，改变美国历史的决定性时刻终于到来了。A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain.今天傍晚之前，我接到了麦凯恩参议员极具风度的致电。Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. 在竞选过程中， 麦凯恩作了长期不懈的努力， 而且他还会为他 所挚爱的国家更加长期不懈地去奋斗。 他已经为美国作出了我们多数人都无法想 象的牺牲。我们必须要把工作做好，以报答这位英明而无私的领导人。I I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.我 对他以及佩林州长所做的一切努力深表敬意， 我也期待着与他们一起在未来的岁 月中为祖国复兴大计而共同努力。I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.我要感谢我的竞选伙伴。为竞选倾尽心血、为出生地斯克兰顿街区和坐火 车即到的特拉华州家乡的拥戴者代言的他，就是当选美国副总统的乔. 拜登。And I would not be standing here tonight wit