You have a very, very changing demographic situation in the American South and its political culture has to respond to that.

你可以想象,当时的美国南方,人口流动是非常厉害的,所以当时的政治文化必须做出相应的调整

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But what you've got at the top are the early 1790s and I think 1820 in terms of slave population in the American south.

一般,你们会认为南方的奴隶数量,达到高峰是在十八世纪九十年代,而我却认为1820年更准确

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Then, there came along the AIDS crisis in South Africa, and the American AIDS drugs were hugely expensive, far more than could be afforded by most Africans.

然而，艾滋危机在南非爆发之后，美国治疗艾滋病的药品却是天价，大多数非洲人根本无力承担。

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It turns out that cultures, different cultures, including differences between America and Japan and the American South and the American North, have somewhat different emotional triggers and emotional baselines to respond to.

看起来文化，不同的文化，包括美日文化的不同,南北美文化的不同，有不同的情感触发点,和应对的情感底线。

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We're going to take up this question initially of it's an old, old, old American question how peculiar, or distinctive, or different is the American South?

我们要继续探讨一个问题,一个十分古老的美国问题,美国南方究竟多么特殊,多么与众不同

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We now know, if we know anything about the Old South, the average American planter, the average American slaveholder, small ones and big ones, were raging capitalists.

如果我们对内战前的南方有所了解,就知道几乎每个种植园主,每个奴隶主,无论资产多少,都是精明的资本家

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There were approximately 400,000 slaveholders, white slaveholders, in the American South by 1860.

截至1860年,美国南部,大约有四十万白人奴隶主

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Crevecoeur made the North the site of the true essence of what he saw as this new American man being born in America, not in the South.

克雷夫科尔把北方描述成了,真正美国人的发源地,而不是南方

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Now, when exactly did the American South become a slave society?

那么美国南部究竟是从何时起成为奴隶社会的

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Why is the South the seat of American conservatism?

为什么南方总是美国的保守派呢

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In the overall attitude of the planter class and the leadership class of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s, some were born to rule and some born to be ruled.

美国南方的19世纪40年代和50年代时,在普遍的种植园主阶级观念,和领导阶级观念中,有些人天生是统治者,有些人天生是被统治者

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If these are the conditions for contact, to what extent are they met in the university setting between, say blacks and whites, people from the American South versus people from the American North, people from other countries versus people from the United States?

如果大学环境里有这些接触的条件，有多少是属于促成因素的？,例如在黑人和白人之间，来自美国南方的人,和来自美国北方的人之间，外国的学生,和美国的学生之间？

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And by the 1820s and 1830s the American South became what I think you could safely say was the fifth slave society in human history; maybe the sixth. This is debatable.

自十九世纪二三十年代起,美国南方,绝对成为了,人类历史上的第五个奴隶社会,也可能是第六个,这仍然处于争议中

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Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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