因为他们也告诉你一个城市和一种文明的状态。一个经济体、某种情境和环境对孩子心灵的影响。
“Dear Santa. For Christmas, I will not ask for much. I really need khaki uniform pants,” wrote one 11-year-old girl, who explained that she has “very few pairs of pants for school.”
一个11岁的女孩这样写道,“亲爱的圣诞老人,我不会要太多圣诞礼物。我真的很想要卡其制服的裤子,因为我几乎没有上学穿的裤子。”
“I also need a very steep and nice-size bookbag for school. I’m in 6th grade and carry alot of books,” she said, explaining that her bag had ripped.
小女孩说,“我还想要一个很大很能装的书包。我现在上六年级,背的书很多。”她解释道她的书包已经破了。
The kids who have these stories almost always ask for something for a parent or a sibling, too. Or, more often, they ask for things only for others.
此外,有这种故事的孩子总是为父母或兄弟姐妹要礼物。或者,更多情况下,他们要的礼物都给别人的。
It’s a community and spirit baked into some of the American underclass. For centuries, even.
几个世纪以来,这种“团队”文化与精神已经深入到美国底层阶级的思想中。
A New York guy remodeling his Hell’s Kitchen apartment recently found letters to Santa from more than 100 years ago. A fatherless child of Irish immigrants wrote a letter in 1907 asking for a wagon for her brother. And then reminded Santa: “P.S. Please do not forget the poor.”
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