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The Survival Strategies of Small Nations

机译:小国的生存策略

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Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, once suggested that a key difference between big nations and small nations is that the latter cannot take their own survival for granted. 'The small nation', he wrote, is one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and it knows it. A French, a Russian, and an English man is not used to asking questions about the very survival of his nation. His anthems speak only of grandeur and eternity. The Polish anthem, however, starts with the verse: 'Poland has not yet perished...'. Similarly, Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of the very small nation of Singapore, once said: To understand Singapore ... you've got to start off with an improbable story: It should not exist. What you see today - the superstructure of a modern city ... could easily disintegrate.
机译:捷克作家米兰·昆德拉(Milan Kundera)曾建议,大国与小国之间的主要区别在于,后者无法将自己的生存视为理所当然。他写道,“小国”是一个随时可能受到质疑的国家。一个小国家可以消失,它知道。法国人,俄罗斯人和英国人不习惯问有关其国家生存的问题。他的国歌只代表着伟大和永恒。然而,波兰国歌以这首诗开头:“波兰尚未灭亡……”。同样,这个很小的国家新加坡的创始人李光耀曾经说过:要了解新加坡……您必须从一个不可能的故事开始:它不应该存在。您今天所看到的-现代化城市的上层建筑...很容易瓦解。

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    《Survival》 |2014年第5期|31-39|共9页
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    James E. Goodby;

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    Stanford University's Hoover Institution;

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