中国！美国“知乎”上这个回答又火了！
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最近，在美版“知乎”Quora上这样一个提问火了：你去过的国家里，有哪个是与之前听到的描述完全不一样的？
其中有一个高赞回答：中国！
这位外国网友说：这是地球最安全的国家，在这里，我从未感到过害怕！
“在中国从未感到害怕过”
在留言板里，一位叫Pete Truman的网友称，在他第一次来中国工作的时候，对中国的了解仅限于西方媒体的报道。
When I first came to China for work, most of what I had known about China was from the western media.
但在中国生活数年后，他才意识到，西方媒体上有很多垃圾信息，那些报道中国的记者很可能压根没来过中国。
However, after living here for a few years, I feel that there are lots and lots of junk information in the western media. It seems that a good number of journalists, who write articles about China, in all likelihood, have never been to China.
例如，西方媒体经常会争论一个话题：在中国生活到底安不安全？
BBC在2019年的一篇文章中，开头就对中国枪支犯罪数量降低这一结论提出质疑。
甚至还援引澳大利亚国立大学一位研究中国犯罪事件的外国学者的观点，他扬言“中国犯罪率降低的数据都是谎言，纯粹是宣传和数据造假”。
"There are lies, damned lies, and Chinese crime statistics. It is sheer propaganda and the falsification of data goes from each police station to the top level," he says.
这位网友表示，事实上，中国是地球上最安全的地方之一(one of the safest place to live on this earth)。
中国比他们通常在英文报纸上读到的要好得多。
Well, China is a lot better place than what we typically read in the English newspapers.
在中国你不用担心安全。你可以在城市和乡村、白天和晚上闲逛，没有任何问题，只要别犯法。
In general, you don't need to worry about safety. You can wander in cities and in the countryside. You can wander in days and in the nights. No issues. Just don't touch the law.
China ranked third in the latest global poll on people's perceptions of their personal security by a pollster from the United States, indicating its residents have a high sense of security.
深圳在那时（21世纪前10年）就已经有了地铁，而且还比巴黎和纽约的先进得多。当时地铁在我们国家还是很新的概念。 They have even already had subway trains back then, which is still new in my country, and the trains are much more advanced than the ones in Paris and New York.
去亚利桑那州的首府凤凰城，开车往南走，一路看起来像个第三世界国家。好吧，再去底特律吧，看起来还是像第三世界国家。俄勒冈州泰格德的拖车社区，看起来就像是印度或巴西的贫民窟。 Go to Phoenix, AZ, some time and drive south. Looks like a 3rd world country. Oh, but that’s just because it’s remote, desert, etc. Ok, fine. Go to Detroit, MI. Not so remote. Still looks like a third world country in places. Checkout the trailer-park pocket neighbourhoods in Tigard, OR. They look like the slum towns in India or Brazil.
When you visit the USA as a tourist, you don’t see these problems. You probably don't even notice the insanely entrenched racism, the wealth divide, the incarceration rates, or the militarization of the police forces across the country either. But live here for a while…it's shockingly different than you'd expect.
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