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Chapter 11 It's Not On Purpose To Show Superiority

This is actually a public psychology. After someone unveiled the "Emperor's New Clothes" in public, others immediately subconsciously wanted to get rid of their relationship with all their previous behaviors. Look, I was not blinded, and I didn't understand it. In fact, I had questions early in the morning!

This created a very wonderful public attitude next. When everyone passed the paintings of the students of the Chicago Art Academy, they couldn't help but comment, either ridicule, ridicule or disdain... In short, I look down on such works!

And when everyone is like this, this attitude becomes a matter of course, even righteousness!

As a result, a team of foreign students who were originally watching the art exhibition in the exhibition hall were also alarmed. They stopped and watched silently for a while, and then one of the girls suddenly waved to a boy behind him and asked, "Matt, you should also understand Chinese, what are they talking about?"

"They are criticizing our college's works... No, they are insulting us!" The boy named Matt looked like a yellow-skinned Chinese, but he dyed his hair into a bunch of colorful colors, and he also fucked a fluent American voice to help his companions explain. Because his voice was not small, his next words also attracted Chu Fei's attention. "This group of ignorant guys actually said that our works are children's works, and they also interpreted our works with their ridiculous cognition. It is really a inferior race living in a lower country, and he has no vision at all, Karen..."

When everyone heard this guy speak fluent English, they suddenly fell silent, perhaps because they couldn't understand, or because of inferiority... Because of the humiliation of China for a hundred years, although everyone seems to look down on people who admire foreigners, in fact, when facing foreigners, everyone will unconsciously feel that they are shorter. After all, it is still a question of national self-esteem. China has not yet risen, and everyone still needs to work hard.

"Sorry to bother..." But at this moment, Chu Fei suddenly spoke, and his fluent English shocked everyone. "This Matt... OK, I'll call you Matt first. I'm very curious. Since you look down on Chinese people like this, you shouldn't be Chinese, right..."

"Of course, I'm an American!" Matt raised his chest with a proud look on his face, but he was still a little surprised by Chu Fei's English. People who could speak such an authentic American accent would not be ordinary people.

"So that's the case. No wonder your Chinese is so bad. Since you can't understand Chinese, don't pretend to understand!" Chu Fei shrugged, then looked at his companion next to him, "Miss Karen? Please allow me to be honored to tell you that everything your companion said just now is nonsense..."

"Huh?" Karen is an American girl who looks about twenty years old. She has a very standard round face, with a beautiful short brown hair and a pair of blue eyes. Of course, it is not ruled out that she will be a little younger, because foreigners will look older, and the freckles and acne on her face also seem to prove this. Of course, based on the pride and confidence of Americans, she will not have any inferiority complex, but looked at Chu Fei curiously, "You speak English so well. Are you also an American?"

"No, I'm Chinese." Chu Fei chuckled, "Absolutely native Chinese, and proud of living in this race!"

"...Well, this proud Chinese gentleman, can you please explain to us what your companions were just talking about?"

"They are saying that your paintings are not good..." Chu Fei shrugged.

"Tsk, that's not what you said!" Matt sneered from the side, "I'm waiting for you to translate it. See how awesome your Chinese is. Can you translate the right into the opposite one!"

"They are indeed saying that these paintings are not good, that's right." Chu Fei didn't care about his ridicule at all, but looked at Karen and the others, "but this has nothing to do with the country and race, it's just because of the differences caused by different aesthetic views. It's like you don't have a high opinion of our college's works, right... And I know that in your eyes, our works are very stiff, as if they were drawn in a mold, and you might even think that this is a total blasphemy of art!"

"You are right, we do think so..." Karen and her companions immediately laughed, "I didn't expect there were people who understand here too!"

"No, this does not mean that I understand people, but that you are actually looking at things with subjective ideas, just like my fellow citizens, who have made the same mistakes as you, which has caused the current misunderstanding."

"Error? Are you saying we made a mistake?" Karen's eyes widened in surprise.

"You heard it right." Chu Fei walked towards them directly, "Maybe you want to hear a detailed explanation? Then let's compare these two paintings... This painting is a work of your academy. From the picture, I can feel a strong personal emotion. From this style and the grasp of details, I don't have to look at the name, I know that its author is a girl. The sea surface on this picture is very calm, but the boat on the sea surface seems to be fighting against the storm. So in the eyes of ordinary people, this is completely inconsistent with the artistic conception of reality. This painting seems to be very bad, but in fact it perfectly expresses the emotions of the painter at that time. I guess she must have been heartbroken at that time, so she was dead but angry..."

"Ah..." Karen immediately covered his mouth in surprise, and the others around her also showed surprised expressions.

"This painting is a work of our academy, and it is also a work that expresses the moonlit sea. If you look at it from the picture alone, it is much better than the painting just now, and it is also highly powerful in terms of technique. So if it is sold in a gallery outside, I believe this painting will be sold at a good price, and the one in your academy may not be interested." Facing the dissatisfied expression on Karen and the others' faces, Chu Fei sighed slightly, "But if it is at a professional auction, your painting can be sold at a good price, and this one... I'm afraid it's not even qualified to be auctioned!"

“!!”

"I say that, I don't know if you understand. This is not the author's mistake, but because we are located in different civilization systems, our growth path is completely different..." Chu Fei shrugged again in the face of them, "Your living environment tells you that everyone is unique and everyone is very important, so you always have a strong personal color, and your personality will be valued and cultivated. This is your advantage, but in China... you should know that China's area is as big as the United States, but its population is more than five or six times that of the United States, and it even accounts for almost one-quarter of the entire world. If you develop your personality like you, it will be a huge disaster for this country without faith and even the whole world!"

“…”

"And the Chinese experienced the looting of the whole world a hundred years ago, from the richest place in the world to the poorest place. China was rebuilt on this poor and poorer basis. Everything must start from scratch. If you choose to follow the route of freedom and democracy like you, then today's India is an example. Their development starting point after independence is much stronger than China, but what is the situation in India now? Which one can they compare with China?"

“…”

"You all believe that human personality is the first, so everything else is not important. Even painting skills can be compensated by time. This is actually true. But similarly, with China's current national conditions, when there is no and no way for people to show their personality, we will first learn the most basic painting skills, and then find and display our personality in the long life in the future... In fact, it is not wrong. Isn't there a saying? All roads lead to Rome! As long as you have the heart, everyone will eventually get the same path. So...what reason do you have to look down on our college's works?"

"Sorry, we didn't think about this..." Karen and others were obviously stunned by Chu Fei's "bombing" and actually took the initiative to apologize.

"You don't need to apologize. As I said before, just because we are in different civilizations, everyone will subconsciously criticize the "heretic" that is different from ourselves, because it is always difficult for us to accept things that are different from our concepts. This is also human nature, but if we really want to go further, we need to put aside these prejudices, put down our glasses with color, look at these issues with an inclusive attitude, and look at the collision of different civilizations..." Chu Fei spread his hands, "Isn't this the essence of the communication between the two academies?"

"You're right..." Karen looked at Chu Fei curiously, "We had a very narrow idea before... Can this friend ask your name?"

"My name is Chu Fei."

"chufei?" Karen read Chu Fei's difficult-to-mouthed name, then walked over and stretched out his hand, "I'm glad to know you, and I'm even happier to hear your explanation... Although it feels a bit unreasonable, I think your statement is very novel, and I will try to think about this issue as much as possible."

"Ha...that's the best!" Chu Fei nodded and shook with her, "I'm also very happy to know you, Miss Karen!"

...

When Chu Fei finally turned around and walked back, he saw a group of people staring at him with dull eyes. Even Yin Jiayi and the others all had a dumb expression. No wonder, because no one expected that Chu Fei would suddenly transform into a "Super Saiyan". Not only did he speak fluent English, but he also spoke to a group of foreigners... Although everyone basically couldn't understand it, judging from the expressions and tone of Karen and others, it was obvious that their communication with Chu Fei was not at all accessible. In other words, Chu Fei's English was actually at the level of a foreigner?
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