關於 living in france as an american ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

In the Bretton Woods system put in place in 1944, US dollars were convertible to gold. In France, it was called "America's exorbitant privilege"[226] as it resulted in an "asymmetric financial system" where foreigners "see themselves supporting American living standards and subsidizing American multinationals". As American economist Barry Eichengreen summarized: "It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods in order to obtain one".[226] In February 1965 President Charles de Gaulle announced his intention to exchange its US dollar reserves for gold at the official exchange rate. He sent the French Navy across the Atlantic to pick up the French reserve of gold, which had been moved there during World War II, and was followed by several countries. As it resulted in considerably reducing US gold stock and US economic influence, it led US President Richard Nixon to unilaterally end the convertibility of the dollar to gold on 15 August 1971 (the "Nixon Shock"). This was meant to be a temporary measure but the dollar became permanently a floating fiat money and in October 1976, the US government officially changed the definition of the dollar; references to gold were removed from statutesI

想在大銀幕睇離騷幻覺，就不要錯過今次的放映了！同場還有更多精彩作品，到時會有影後座談，想知道我們最近的製作情報，記得來一齊chitchat 啦！

【📢動異夢：電影人探索自我潛意識的囈語。🎬】
▶️「《人之二》及《童年前的意象（第一章）》及《江記 x 廖沛毅》」
* 導演江記將出映後談，活動將以廣東話進行。

【📢 Animated Dreams: Where artists dare to dream with delirious collages culled from their subconsciousness. 🎬】
▶️ " Adam 2 & Scenes from Under Childhood (Section 1) and Kongkee x Simon Liu "
* Director Kongkee will attend after-screening talk，which will be conducted in Cantonese on June 9.

📽鮮有機會放映的《#人之二》是揚．萊尼卡的首部長片，電影花了三年半時間製作，是1965年的短片《A》之續篇，《A》的主角被人一樣大的A字纏擾，《#人之二》則以樸素的線條和剪影呈現無言的主角在荒誕威權社會中的煉獄人生。
🎞日期及時間：9/6/2019 (日) 7:30pm

📽美國前衛電影人布力奇治的16米厘短片呈現嬰兒踏入人世的第一步，由子宮內腥紅的影像出發，再來扭曲的幻影與成年世界，最後以小孩餵食嬰兒來標誌新生代進入了社會網絡。《#童年前的意象》四部曲中最為人知的第一章回應拉康的鏡像場景理論，示範了實驗電影探索人類意識的本領。
🎞日期及時間：9/6/2019 (日) 7:30pm

📽香港漫畫家江記的《離騷幻覺》結合科幻、歷史等等混雜的元素，寫出一首給我城與未來的情書。〈泪羅篇〉及〈剌秦篇〉兩部短片是正在製作的長篇之先導，濃烈的霓虹色彩滲透慾望與毀滅，無邊夢魘一如現今世相的迴響。
導演廖沛毅用褪色的16米厘菲林拍攝的《港口城市》把兩段晃動影像合而為一，35米厘的新作《墜落拱門》則用機槍般的蒙太奇呈現作者對香港、倫敦及紐約的記憶，既是實驗影像，也探索影像與身份之間的關係。
🎞日期及時間：9/6/2019 (日) 4:15pm*

📽 "Adam 2" is Jan Lenica's first feature-length animation, it is a follow-up of sorts to his 1965 ten-minute short "A" - in which a man finds himself harassed at home by a human-size version of the capital letter A. This rarely aired film is a jet-black collage of drawings and cut-outs which tracks a man's wordless passage through his absurd, purgatorial existence in an absurd, authoritarian world.

🎞 Date & Time: 9/6/2019 (Sun) 7:30pm

📽 American avant-gardist Stan Brakhage's 16mm short reveals the shock and awe of a disoriented infant make the first step into the human realm. This is a more well-known chapter in a four-part series, also a vivid example of the ability of experimental cinema to broach a consciousness beyond popular understanding, and offers a transatlantic response to Jacques Lacan's "mirror stage" theories.
🎞 Date & Time: 9/6/2019 (Sun) 7:30pm

📽 "Dragon’s Delusion" is Hong Kong comics artist Kongkee's highly ambitious riff on Chinese history, cyborg theory and possibly quite a few things falling in between. These shorts billed as the first two episodes of the Dragon’s Delusion feature film, Kongkee and his crew produced a feverish nightmare which somehow resonates with the state we are living in.
New York-based British-Chinese Simon Liu delivers abstract yet highly dynamic pieces evoking urban landscapes which shaped and nurtured him. Liu's films are as much about experimentalism as it is about an examination of the relationship between images and identities.

🎞 Date & Time: 9/6/2019 (Sun) 4:15pm*

#人之二 #童年前的意象 #江記 #廖沛毅 #康城導演雙週及香港電影的新作風 #輕狂吶喊 #新浪潮新海岸 #康城導演雙週50遇見香港電影 #康城導演雙週 #香港藝術中心 #香港電影
#Adam2 #UnderChildhood #Kongkee #SimonLiu #PierreHenriDeleau #PrimalScreams #NewWavesNewShores #hkmovies #movie #movienight #CannesDirectorsFortnight #HongKongArtsCentre #HongKongCinema #classicmovie
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新浪潮．新海岸：康城導演雙週50遇見香港電影
輕狂吶喊19/69：康城導演雙週及香港電影的新作風
New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema
Primal Screams 19/69: New Expressions in Cinema from Cannes Directors' Fortnight and Hong Kong
6/6-23/6

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20% off for each purchase of 4 or more standard tickets.

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資助機構：創意香港、電影發展基金
影展夥伴：康城導演雙週、法國駐港澳總領事館
為其之聯辦節目：法國五月藝術節
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Presented by: Hong Kong Arts Centre
Financially Supported by: Create Hong Kong, Film Development Fund
Festival Partners: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Consulat Général de France à Hong Kong et Macao
An Associated Project of: Le French May 法國五月
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反對黨中選定候選人楊美盈的一篇介紹自己的英文文章，從這篇文章可以看得出它的架構完全是依魅力故事學的角度來講。（也隱著Joseph Campbell英雄之旅的影子，連這個也講給你們聽，我已經夠慈悲了）。

細節不要問我，除非你是我的學生，就可以在秘密社團討論。

其餘的，若不是我的學生，可以報名 5 月 25 和· 26 日的 《江魔式毒辣NLP》

Entering into Politics - The Story Behind. By Yeo Bee Yin（杨美盈）
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"Why are you involved in politics?" I think this is the question my family members, friends, and many others will ask.

It's a long story. I am writing this story today to make sure that, if ever, I forget what am I in politics for, it will serve as a reminder.

Part I: The Beginning - Seed of Love

It all started in 2001 with my first Fast and Pray for Malaysia. Since then, I started to see Malaysia very differently and began to sow the seed of love for this nation. I remember I was only 18 years old then. Looking back now, I realized, I too, can be a part of the answered prayer. How marvellous.

Part II: Years on Distant Shores

No, I am not a super patriotic person that nothing else matters to me beside Malaysia. Being a 'kampung' girl, I dreamed of going overseas - to study, to work and to see the world.

Part II (a): Eyes Opened

My dream finally came true in my fourth year in UTP. I was offered a 6-month internship placement in BASF world biggest chemical site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. As a chemical engineering student, and being the first student in UTP to get the offer, it was indeed was a great blessing for me.

Internship in Germany was my first taste of international exposure as they take interns from all over the world to Germany. I spent countless of hours with some of these friends here discussing about just about anything under the sun.

In Germany, the church that I attended was Rhein River Baptist Church, which is a church of the American army who are based in Mannheim. I was one of the few non-military church members there. Through my interaction with the American armies, I began to understand what "Democracy", "Liberty" and "Patriotism" really mean.

During my stay in Germany, I also took the opportunity to travel to neighboring countries like France, Italy, Luxembourg and England. It was in these trips that changed my world view about culture, nation, development etc.

Before coming to Europe, as a top student, I thought I knew a lot. After I came here, I realized how little I knew about the world. I began to question why in Malaysia we did not learn a more complete world history, different political systems, different ideologies, arts and culture? Neither have we been taught to think critically and objectively. I began to realize that what we've been taught in the schools have been crafted in such a way that we can be easily manipulated if we are not careful. Our syllabus was (and still is) flawed and politically biased.

I have to admit that before coming to Germany, I was an ardent supporter of Dr Mahathir and his legacy. I read his book, watched his documentary, supported the blind protection of GLCs and race-based affirmative action, thinking that it's true 'patriotism'. (You can see how brain-washed I was then.)

Six months of internship in Germany has completely changed my world view , my eyes began to open, my previous perceptions shattered and I began to see things very differently. There is actually a much BETTER way for Malaysia.

I was 22 years old then.

Part II (b): A Disheartened Young Malaysian

After the internship, I came back to Malaysia to finish my study in UTP and graduated in 2006. Before I finished my study in UTP, I received offer from my dream university, Cambridge University, for a program called MPhil in `Advanced Chemical Engineering. I was so happy! So I started to apply for funding from various organizations. I didn't get any. Although disappointed, I wasn't blaming anybody as I understood that nobody was obliged to fund me. Despite financial difficulties in his business in 2006, my dad agreed to fund my study in Cambridge.

However, I still had one problem. I was bonded to Petronas for 10 years and was supposed to serve my bond after I finished my study in UTP. So I wrote to Petronas again to ask for deferment of service until after I finished my master degree in Cambridge. A few weeks later, I was called to come to the education unit. I really thought everything was gonna to be ok. There, I saw a nice guy, he told me that the program was great and he really wanted to help, but it was in the policy that they couldn't allow any deferment for the bond or I would have to pay up my bond in lump-sump. My dream crashed.

I did not blame Petronas for that, as they were just following the contract and it would be a havoc if every scholar would come and ask for deferment or for more funding. I understood that. However, it was a small incidence in the education unit that made me utterly disappointed with how things work in Malaysia. While waiting at the lounge, I met two returning scholars from Nottingham University, UK. I started to talk to them. After a while, an education unit guy came and met them, I accidentally saw their results - one of them get second class lower and the another one a third class. That blasted my mind. Here I was, with a CGPA of 3.95/4.00 begging only for 1 year of deferment, not even a scholarship, but was denied. Here they were, spent 4 years in the UK fully sponsored and yet graduated with mediocre results.

Am I not as much a Malaysian as them? Being a 23 years old, I was utterly disheartened and disappointed.

Part II (c): The Only Way out

It was just a few days after I came back from Petronas education unit that I received a call from an American oil and gas company informing me that I was recruited. How did I get the job? While searching for scholarships to Cambridge, I casually attended 5 stages of job interviews with this company as my mom advised me to go for job interview experience. The salary would allow me to pay up my Petronas bond in just a few months! Since the offer was great and there was no way that I could attend Cambridge anyway, I decided to take up the job.The company assigned me to Turkmenistan where I spent most of my next 2 years.

I was 24 years old when I left home for Turkmenistan and never thought I'll be back again. My plan was to climb up the corporate ladder and finally settle down in one of the developed countries.

Part II (c): When Money Rules

Being paid in a salary comparable to many general managers here in Malaysia, I managed to settle my bond with Petronas very quickly and saved some for myself. With the traveling allowances from the company, I traveled to many other countries too during the holidays. Life was great, I worked hard, played hard. Because of the good compensation scheme, I did not really think much about what I really want to do in life, my dream or my passion for the country. What I went after were money, bonus and performance. I became terribly self-centered.

I just didn't care anymore.

It was until 9th Mar 2008, when I opened The Star online and saw the news on the political tsunami that I realized how I still love and care about my country. They were just buried very deeply under my frustration and disappointment. How I wished I would be able to contribute to the change no matter how small the contribution was, instead of just seeing it as an outsider.

I began to question, why am I here? Is this really what I want to pursue? Do I do this because there's no more option? Do I do this just because of money? If I were born in the US with many other opportunities, would I still leave my home and do what I am doing now? How many more Malaysians out there left Malaysia because they went for better opportunities, just like myself and many other Malaysians abroad I've met throughout the years?

After more than half a year of consideration, I quit the job just months before my second promotion (when I still could resist the temptation). I wanted to be back to make a change to my nation, so that our next generation do not need to wander around the world for a better future, because the better future IS in Malaysia. I knew that I am a nobody and of me coming back would not help much, but I thought I should just do my part as a Malaysian, to serve our nation, regardless.

However, before I was back for good, I wanted to fulfill my childhood dream first, that was, to study in Cambridge University. I did not need to worry about my finance anymore now as I could afford to pay for everything. So I re-applied and got the admission offer within a month. A double blessing to me was that Cambridge Gates Scholarship, the most prestigious post-graduate scholarship in Cambridge University, also offered me a full scholarship! Everything was paid for including air tickets, living expenses and school fees! I was and always will be grateful for Bill and Merlinda Gates Foundation.

With that, I went to Cambridge University at the age of 27 years old, a long-delayed dream finally came true.

Part II (d): Living Cambridge Dream

My experience in Cambridge continued to make my burden for Malaysia even stronger. Throughout the year, I've met with many brilliant Malaysian students or working adults from top universities in the UK. I usually asked if they will one day be back to Malaysia. For those with JPA or Petronas bond, they said yes because no choice, whereas for those who are not bonded, almost 80% said No or they'll only be back to Malaysia if they can't find a job in UK, Europe or US. Malaysia has become the last resort. For the Gates scholars, it's even more dismal. Out of the 10 who have received the scholarships from 2001 to 2010 (unfortunately none received the scholarship in 2011 and 2012), I am the ONLY 1 who is back.

Where do many of the talented Malaysians go? There are all at the foreign land seeking for better opportunities and a better future. Can we blame them for not coming back? NO, absolutely NOT. Malaysia has just too little to offer them.


Part III: Hello Malaysian Politics


After pursuing my personal dream, as I've promised myself, I was finally back to Malaysia to pursue my dream for the country. Even with a strong burden for the country, it hadn't crossed my mind that I should be in politics, mainly because to me, being a politician was too far-fetch. I had no idea as in where to start, what to do, and which party to join. Also, I had been non-partisan all my life. What I thought I would do to make a change was probably community works and joining NGOs.

Until my company did a project with Democratic Action Party (DAP) in their general election social media campaign that I was exposed to politics first hand. I finally came to realization that if I want to make a good impact in this nation, with the limited things I have, it can only be done effectively through politics.

So joining politics? It was a tough decision, especially this year, only 1 year plus after I started my own business. I am not a person that go after fame and power, why bother to join politics? In addition, I am already 29 years old, isn't that better for me to find a husband and start a family? (God knows, when I was young I wanted to get married at 25!). Why waste time fighting for a job, of which I'll risk losing every 5 years and getting a pay that is not even half of what I used to get? Why bother to play the so called 'dirty politics'? As my mom has so rightly put it, "you can have a decent and comfortable life now, why choose such a hard life?".

However, what my mom did not know, is my love for this nation since I was 18 years old, and my desire to see a better Malaysia.

As I look back my life, by the grace of God, I was blessed with good and free education, MNC job training as well as so many different opportunities of international exposure. What I want to do now is really to be a faithful steward to the gifts of God and use them to bless my fellow Malaysians.

"For everyone to whom much given, of him shall much be required" Luke 12:48

So I've made up my mind to join politics.

Even after I've decided that I should join politics, I wasn't quite sure of which party to join. I was still a non-partisan by then. So I examined through the ideology, history and leadership of different parties, and had finally come to a conclusion that DAP is the best choice for me.

Ideologically, with years of European influences (though a The Economist reader), I have always been a social democrat, so it fits just well. Historically, DAP stood the test of time and never wavered in its principle. Finally, I think I can follow the leadership of DAP without worry because most of the time they make sense to me (unlike the other side) and most importantly, they uphold integrity and righteousness.

One setback of DAP to me was the party ethnicity-mix. It is still made-up of mostly Chinese and I am definitely not very into a race-based party. However, as I was involved in the Roketkini (DAP Malay news portal) Facebook page promotion, I could see the effort of DAP to reach out to Malay population and a genuine intention top down to make DAP a multiracial party. No party is perfect anyway. So I decided to join DAP and believe that through hard-work and time, we can build a true multiracial party together.

Part IV: Hope for the Future

So now, I am in politics and volunteering in DAP. What am I going to do for the next 20-30 years in politics?

Firstly, my heart is to use my gifts to serve the people regardless of income, race and religion. I believe politician is in fact public servant, we should always work towards maximizing the interest of the public.

For the long run, my hope for Malaysia is very simple. I hope that through the hard work of our generation, we'll make sure that Malaysia can be a land of opportunities and equality for our children. I hope that Malaysia can be a land where, no matter how big and what your dreams are, they can be fulfilled here; and no matter what your potential are, they can be reached here. I hope that our children, no matter where they are outside of Malaysia, they will so look forward to come back to Malaysia. I hope for a Malaysia that is free from corruption, united regardless or race and religion as well as competitive in the global economy.

And now, I shall work hard for it. May God bless the works of our hands.

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