【2010.8.5 外交政策】我因中国约会节目而出名--外国选手的自述
本帖最后由 caro_cricricri 于 2010-8-6 14:49 编辑【原文标题】I Was Almost a Chinese Dating-Show Star
【中文标题】我差点因中国约会节目而出名-但是我那一集却被和谐了，因为外国男人被认为不应得到那个女孩
【登载媒体】Foreign Policy
【来源地址】http://www.foreignpolicy.com/art ... show_star?page=full
【译者】 caro_cricricri
【翻译方式】 人工
【声明】 本翻译供Anti-CNN使用，未经AC或译者许可，不得转载。
【译文】
一天好几次听能到同事的手机铃声，是中国超火的婚恋交友类节目《非诚勿扰》的主题曲。那是一声充满羞涩的男士混音“你感觉到了吗？”，但真正让我退缩的原因，不是节目露骨的物质主义，也不是因为政府对节目的厌恶，而是因为我曾亲自参与这个节目。摄制组来到我家录制了一个为了此节目在江苏卫视播出的片段，但除了我谁也不知道这个片段会成如此结局，当我的片段得以播出时，我的部分因为未通过审查而被剪掉了，用中文来说就是“被和谐了”。
《非诚勿扰》1月份首播以来已经成为全国性的话题。此节目形式来源于英国的约会节目《约我出去（Take Me Out）》。中国人的视角是见钱眼开。男选手频繁的炫耀银行存单和豪车就是为了能吸引在场的24位女士，这些人要么忽视他，要么为了约会激烈竞争。一个值得注意的女选手马诺曾有如下著名言论，当一位男士问他是否愿意在约会时坐在他的自行车后座时，她回答说我宁愿在宝马后面哭。由此她被禁止再上任何电视节目。
节目的火爆同样招来骂声。排名高了，政府的监管也严了。在中国，政府对节目受众和影响越来越大的问题很头疼。以前，讨论关于中国极速上涨的房价、政府腐败、蜗居等话题的节目，节目第一集播出后吸引了很多观众但往往就会被立即叫停。也正如《非诚勿扰》一位编导对我所说的那样“只有你没有影响力，你可以畅所欲言，政府不会在乎没有听众的人在说什么”。但如果有人听了，那就是另外一回事了。
大概两个月前，我申请参与节目。我的中国同事认为少见的外国面孔可以助我一臂之力。果然，一个星期后我接到了编导的电话。
我到达电视台后，进入会议室后就被熟悉的中式标志所包围，除了现代感的大楼外，一群男士在角落一支接着一支的抽烟，另一群在玩手机游戏。编导对我说的第一句话是告诉我什么不可以说“你不能在电视上讲宗教”。她说中国是一个官方无神论的国家，所以电视和广播都不提及宗教。她还告诉我不能提到任何之前被禁的电视节目也不能说任何有争议的话题。
首次登台时，熟悉的旋律响起，我受到观众“呜”“哇”的欢呼。我报了自己的名字、国籍，这是24位女人仅凭外表有了第一次拒绝我的机会。几个人灭了灯。
录制的时候，我觉得事情进展的很顺利。我说我喜欢思想开放的女孩，这是中国话比较婉转的说法，实际上就是指性解放的女士。这话带来了一片笑声。
我同样收到了“你长的好像哈利波特”的评价，我也回应说“我比他帅多了”。在中国每个人都认为我长的像哈利波特，我的回答也通常会引起一阵笑声。一位女士说她喜欢我，理由是混血的宝宝比较可爱。我回应说“我想我们要是有了混血宝宝，一定会很可爱”。
大多数中国人认为外国人，即使是住在中国的外国人都不能说或者明白一点中文，所以她认为我一定是误解她了。换言之，她没发觉我的玩笑。主办方在此部分介入让她知道这是我对她的间接回应。
节目快结束时，仍有8位女士想和我约会。我到最后一个环节，选了其中一位，成为这个节目历史上第一位这样做的外国人。我和一位来自贵州的共产党员爱小姐牵手离开录制场地去听浪漫的钢琴演奏。（但不幸的是她住在上海而我们也从没停止约会）。
当该我的片段播出时，我看了整场节目，但是里面并没有我。再后来的一周编导告诉我，你被删掉了原因是你成功了。
我并没有惊讶于我被剪掉。这已经是中国比较好的共产主义意见。但看到我前面俩位失败的外国选手，一个美国男人和一个中国女人约会的场面确实很有争议。当然这种情况经常发生，但政府并不鼓励这样做。
又或者是因为我的性暗示带来的后果？观众们笑了，但在一个国家色情描绘通常是被官方禁止的，我的直接可能激起的政府的愤怒。不管怎样，共产党的官方代言人《人民日报》在我的部分播出一周前评论说这个约会节目很低俗。总之，大概我不会知道。
我作为中国很现实的明星带给我看事情的洞察力，北京仍然把电视看成为一个工具，而不是一项娱乐。这也就是为什么外国人不允许进入电视台、广播站工作的原因，这些还都由政府控制。即使最不起眼的小事也会让斧子落下来。由《非诚勿扰》想到这么多。
But my episode got censored because foreign guys aren't supposed to get the girl.
BY BENJAMIN HAAS | AUGUST 4, 2010
Several times a day I hear the theme song from If You Are the One, the hit Chinese dating show, blaring from my co-worker's cell phone: It's an embarrassing techno mix with a man's voice wailing, "Can you feeeeel it?!" But what really makes me cringe is something else. It's not the show's blatant materialism, or the Chinese government's aversion to the program. It's the fact that I was once a contestant on the show. A film crew visited my home and recorded an episode for the dating show at Jiangsu Satellite Television in Nanjing. But almost no one but me knows about this bizarre episode, because when it came time for my segment to air, my portion was cut out, censored, or as we say in China, "harmonized."
If You Are the One premiered in January and has since become a national phenomenon. The format is copied from the British dating show Take Me Out. The Chinese version is in your face about money; male contestants will frequently show off their bank statements and luxury cars in an effort to woo interest from a parade of 24 women, who will either pass on them or vie for a date. One memorable female contestant, Ma Nuo, was once asked by a guy if she would like to go on a date with him and ride on the back of his bicycle; she famously responded, "I'd rather cry in the back of a BMW." She has since been banned from appearing on television.
The show's popularity has also been a curse. As ratings went up, so did government scrutiny. In China, popularity and influence go hand in hand, and that makes the government nervous. Previously, a drama discussing topics like China's spiraling real-estate prices and local-government corruption, Wo Ju ("Dwelling Narrowness"), was taken off the air midway through the first season after it began to attract a large following. Or, as the director of If You Are the One told me, "You can say whatever you want in China, as long as you're not influential. The government doesn't care what you say if no one is listening." But if someone is listening, it's a different story.
About two months ago, I applied to be on the show. My Chinese co-worker thought the novelty of being a foreigner would give me a leg up, and he was right. A week later I got a call from the director.
When I arrived at the station, I entered the meeting room and was greeted with familiar signs of China, despite the modern-looking building: A group of men gathered in the corner were chain-smoking, another group of playing games on their cell phones. The director's first words to me were a reminder of what I couldn't say. "You can't talk about religion on TV," she said. "China is an officially atheist country, so there is no mention of religion on TV or radio." She also told me I couldn't mention television shows that had been banned, or other potentially controversial topics.
When I first went on stage, the familiar theme song played and I was greeted by oohs and ahhs from the audience. I announced my name and where I was from, and then the 24 female contestants had their first chance to reject me based on looks alone. A few turned me down on the spot.
During the recording, I thought things were going well. I said I liked "open-minded" girls, a euphemism in Chinese for sexually liberated women, which was greeted with much laughter.
I received the obligatory, "You look like Harry Potter," comment and responded with my standard comeback, "I'm much more handsome than him." Everyone in China thinks I look like Harry Potter, and that response usually gets a laugh. A woman said she liked me because she thought mixed-race babies were cute. "I think if we had mixed-race babies, they would be very cute," I replied.
Most Chinese think foreigners, even those living in China, can't speak or understand a word of Chinese, so she assumed I had misunderstood her. In other words, she didn't get the joke. It took some intervention on the part of the host to make her understand that that was my roundabout way of answering her.
By the end of the show, there were still eight women interested in going on a date with me. I went through the final round and picked one, becoming the first foreigner in this history of the show to do so. I walked off the set, hand in hand with Ai Xuanzheng, a young Communist Party member from Guizhou, to romantic piano music. (Unfortunately, she lives in Shanghai and we never did end up going on a date.)
When it came time for my segment to air, I watched the entire episode, but it never appeared. The following week the director told me, "You were censored because you were successful."
I'm not surprised I was cut. There is a good degree of nationalist sentiment in China, and while seeing the two foreign contestants before me fail is entertaining, the image of an American male dating a Chinese girl is much more controversial. It happens quite frequently, of course, but it seems the government doesn't want to encourage it.
Or perhaps it was my somewhat sexually suggestive comments that offended? The audience seemed to laugh, but in a country where pornography is officially banned, my directness may have aroused the government's ire. After all, the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, complained just a week before my episode was to air that dating shows were "vulgar." In the end, I'll probably never know.
My brief role as a Chinese reality star did give me insight into one thing: Ultimately, Beijing still sees television as a tool, not a source of entertainment. That's why foreigners are prohibited from working at any television or radio station, all of which are still owned by the government. Even the most seemingly frivolous of topics can bring down the axe at any time. So much for wondering If You Are the One. cctv9里头有好几个老外呢！ 我还真没看过非诚勿扰o3O145) cctv2 每天都有美国佬再那噼哩叭啦的 本帖最后由 和解团结 于 2010-8-5 22:51 编辑
楼主，你咋没翻译下面那个副标题？
I Was Almost a Chinese Dating-Show Star我差点就变成了中国的约会节目明星
But my episode got censored because foreign guys aren't supposed to get the girl.
但是我那一集却被和谐了，因为外国男人被认为不应得到那个女孩 这是真的吗????
非诚勿扰 有这种事吗...
有第三个老外? 那央视那么多频道里的那些人是带着面具或是整容成外国人的人？就这智商还在中国生活，真是现眼。。。。。。 标题翻译有问题，应该是我差点成为中国约会节目明星。 回复 4# 音痴小弟
真是搞不懂。為嘛要把CCTV2也變成9呢！
弄幾個老外在說就好像很有水平一樣 回复 5# 和解团结
谢谢介位同鞋指正。我改过来 ^^ 从没看过那个节目。对这种相亲式的节目十分厌恶。 呵呵。。。。
的确这样会影响不好 这个节目争议已经够大了 这个节目是录播的，当然会剪片子了。 傻逼white trash
一口一个共产党小姐、共产党意见
穷逼就不要来共产党中国骗钱，这么偏执于政治猎奇可以去看下当地精神科 中国的这种相亲节目真是丢人现眼，更不是真的要相亲，而是出风头，赚眼球，赢收视率，虚伪得很！ 为什么我觉得我看到过这集……记忆错乱了？ 我的结论：删节目的人心里有鬼。就像全中国的电视台播放的凤凰卫视往往播着播着就突然中断一会儿。 共产党的官方代言人《人民日报》在我的部分播出一周前评论说这个约会节目很低俗
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还真把自己当根葱啊 和老外学的，与国际接轨嘛！ 中国女性是 ...
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