"Please, let me go back once, my mom is dying, I'll be right back after watching her"
Li Wenbiao held the arm of the ambassador's staff in Japan and pleaded repeatedly, but he was met with a ruthless refusal.
And all this is just because he is a "black household".
In the past, he always thought that the moon in foreign countries was rounder than China, so he voluntarily gave up his Chinese nationality and joined Bolivia, and later wanted Japanese nationality.
Eventually, he became a "stateless" black household and wandered the streets of Japan.
Now that he regrets giving up his Chinese nationality, did he finally see his mother?
There are reliable sources of information in this article, which are detailed at the end of the article
«——·Determined to find a new world·——»
Once upon a time, he was the leader of the magic capital of Shanghai, living a carefree life, he was born into a family of intellectuals, and received a good education from an early age.
After graduating from university, Li Wenbiao got his wish to work in a foreign-funded company, and Li Wenbiao often came into contact with foreign customers in his work, and heard from them the descriptions of the free-spirited and materially prosperous life abroad.
As time passed, Li Wenbiao began to feel bored with the life in front of him, everything seemed to be trapped in a small cage, and the dream of a good life was waiting for him to explore outside.
In 2000, Li Wenbiao resolutely renounced his Chinese nationality and flew to the mysterious Bolivia of South America with all his savings.
Li Wenbiao nodded reluctantly, pretending to be strong to coax his mother, but he knew in his heart that he had made up his mind that he would never return, and the pain of leaving his hometown was far deeper than he imagined, and his mother's advice was like an invisible chain, dragging his heart at any time.
When he first arrived in Bolivia, everything about this strange country was new to Li Wenbiao, with the warm smiles of the locals everywhere in the streets and alleys, the date palm trees stretching their branches and leaves in the hot sun, and the golden sunshine adding a bit of vitality to this small town.
"Look, this is the life we dream of!" Li Wenbiao muttered to himself at the scenery outside the window, a young heart is inevitably full of yearning and expectation for unknown things.
However, the novelty was soon replaced by the barriers caused by cultural differences, and Li Wenbiao knew nothing about Spanish, unable to communicate even basic everyday language, and the locals looked at the oriental face with strange eyes, as if he were a monster.
He tried to integrate into local life and learn language and customs, but the reality was often far more difficult and cruel than he imagined, and in order to make ends meet, Li Wenbiao had to do some hard work and live a more difficult life than in China.
Although these words were unintentional, they made Li Wenbiao feel unprecedented frustration and loss, and he began to wonder whether those who had described to him the beauty of life abroad had deliberately exaggerated the facts, could it be that the paradise he dreamed of was actually full of hardships and loneliness, how happy and happy is a person in a foreign country, and his heart was filled with endless guilt and self-blame.
Just as Li Wenbiao was gradually adjusting to life in Bolivia, a chance business trip gave him a new vision of a developed country, where urban forests lined with high-rise buildings, wide and bustling avenues were spotless, and the windows of shopping malls were full of world-famous brand goods.
The rush of people contrasts with the slower pace of life here. This atmosphere of affluence and generosity made Li Wenbiao realize for the first time the gap between developed and developing countries. The life of his dreams is just around the corner, and he has spent so many years in a small South American country!
Li Wenbiao decided to renounce his Bolivian citizenship and move to developed Japan, where he sought new opportunities.
«——·Coming to Japan·——»
When he first arrived in Tokyo, the city once known as the "Pearl of the Orient" gave him a great cultural shock, with the bustling crowds of struggling office workers, their steps as if pressing a metronome, and the neon lights on both sides of the streets, showing the modern prosperity, and looking up at the steel jungle covering the sky.
Li Wenbiao had a longing in his heart and began to actively prepare for all the formalities of applying for Japanese nationality, but the good times did not last long, and he soon encountered many obstacles, and as a large country of immigrants, Japan's conditions for immigrants were harsh to a daunting point.
What's even more troublesome is that according to Japanese law, foreigners who want to obtain Japanese nationality must give up their original nationality, which is undoubtedly a costly decision for Li Wenbiao, a stateless person.
He ran around tirelessly preparing the application materials, but was ruthlessly rejected at the last hurdle on the grounds that he was no longer stateless and was not eligible to apply for citizenship.
This bad news was like a bolt from the blue, which shattered the last vestiges of Li Wenbiao's illusion, and in order to apply for Japanese nationality, he had to choose to give up his Bolivian nationality, but in the end he got nothing and became a complete stateless person.
Since then, Li Wenbiao has lived an embarrassing life in Japan, and his lack of nationality means that he is homeless and has nowhere to hide.
He had to hide in Tibet, fearing that the local police would find out and be repatriated, and Li Wenbiao relied on his traditional massage skills to make ends meet in a small shop in the middle of nowhere, at the foot of Mount Fuji.
In the dead of night, a distant siren would make him flustered and sweat all over his body, and he would often can't help but think back to his life in Shanghai, the greetings of his parents, the laughter of his friends, the warm sense of belonging to his motherland, and the things that were once taken for granted have now become luxuries.
Li Wenbiao hated his decision, and even more hated those who had tempted him, but the way back had been blocked by himself, and he could no longer return to the embrace of the motherland, and could only bear the mockery of fate alone in this strange and cruel country.
In this way, Li Wenbiao lived a life of being awakened every night, and during the day he rubbed the bodies of customers in a small shop in order to earn some meager income.
Sometimes, Li Wenbiao will look at the national flag flying high, and his heart will be cut like a knife, that is the country for which he once renounced his nationality, and now he can only hide in that land and live a life of personal freedom.
One day, Li Wenbiao suddenly received a phone call that made him overjoyed, he was an old classmate who had not been in touch for a long time, but the words of the other party made him fall into the lowest point of his life...
«——·Mother died·——»
Late one night in 2020, Li Wenbiao suddenly received a message that made his heart like a knife, his mother was seriously ill, and her greatest wish was to be able to visit this son for the last time before she died.
After learning the bad news, Li Wenbiao struggled to get to the Chinese embassy in Japan, where he fell to his knees, wept bitterly, and begged the staff to be accommodating once again and let him return to China to see his mother for the last time.
"I'm sorry, but you are already stateless and we do not have the authority to approve your entry. "The embassy staff was apologetic, but there was nothing they could do.
Hearing the cold refusal, Li Wenbiao's whole person seemed to have fallen into the abyss of no return, and all the courage and determination of the past disappeared, leaving only sorrow and helplessness.
The remorse in his heart was surging like boiling water, he hated the rash decision at the beginning, and also hated the stupidity of abandoning his motherland and relatives. The mother died with hatred, and I am afraid that until the last moment of her life, she is also looking forward to seeing this son again. However, Li Wenbiao can't make up for this regret with this life.
Sometimes, he will sit on the side of the street in a daze, remembering the comfort of the past and the ardent expectations of his parents for him, tears falling quietly in the rain, but no one can complain, Li Wenbiao silently recited countless times in his heart: I hope God can give him a chance to be a new man.
Sadly, Li Wenbiao has fallen to the bottom of life, there is no hope in the abyss of despair, this once handsome and dashing man, now he can only rely on the handouts of strangers to survive.
Li Wenbiao's experience is a mirror of warning, the meaning of life is not only to pursue dreams, but more importantly, to know how to be happy. No matter where you live, as long as you experience it with your heart, you can discover the most precious part of your heart, the attachment to your family and the longing for your motherland.
«——·崇洋媚外仍未断绝·——»
In addition to Li Wenbiao, there are many people like him, who also abandoned their motherland and relatives in pursuit of the so-called "freedom", but in the end they suffered in Japan.
Among them, there is a Chen Fupo's family, and their experience is embarrassing.
Chen Fupo was born in Northeast China in the 30s of the 20th century, and when he was a teenager, when the Japanese war of aggression broke out, he witnessed the brutality of the Japanese army, and fled to Taiwan with his family after the war.
In 1972, when China and Japan normalized diplomatic relations, Chen Fupo was faced with a difficult choice: he should either become a naturalized Chinese citizen or become a Japanese citizen. On the one hand, he still has fresh memories of the atrocities of the Japanese army such as the Nanjing Massacre and is unwilling to submit to Japan, on the other hand, living on the island for a long time has made it difficult for him to identify as a Chinese.
In this way, Chen Fupo missed the opportunity to become a naturalist, and his family became a black household. At first, he didn't think so. With the savings of his early years, Chen Fupo opened a Chinese restaurant in a foreign country and supported his family by hard work.
The problem is that as children grow up, the dilemma of statelessness becomes more and more prominent, and the lack of legal status means that they cannot do decent work, cannot enjoy social security, and even bank deposits become a luxury, and the children's future is deprived.
Chen Fupo's daughter, Chen Tianxi, is gifted and academically outstanding, but because she has no nationality, she was rejected by a well-known private school, and even if she tried everything possible to study abroad, she could not apply for any scholarship.
Every time he travels, Chen Tianxi has to prepare much more materials than ordinary people, and he is often troubled by the customs. Once, she was finally allowed to go to Taiwan to attend an academic conference, but when she boarded the plane, she was denied entry by the Taiwan Immigration Bureau, so she had to return on the original plane in disgrace.
What is ironic is that on the way back, Japanese customs did not allow this "stateless associate professor" who has lived in Japan for many years to enter the country. In desperation, Chen Tianxi's father asked for help everywhere, and she was able to return to Japan.
At that moment, Chen Tianxi finally understood: a stateless person is not accepted by any country and has no dignity at all. Even though she is a real person, she does not have a legal identity.
At that moment, Chen Tianxi finally understood: a stateless person is not accepted by any country and has no dignity at all. Even though she is a real person, she does not have a legal identity.
Since then, Chen Tianxi has to repeatedly consider the itinerary before each trip, anticipating all kinds of difficulties he may encounter. In the end, she had to become a Japanese citizen in exchange for the convenience of work and life.
Chen Tianxi's experience is by no means an isolated case.
There is also a 985 master's degree graduate named Wang Yi, who was carried away by the idea of admiring foreign countries, she bewitched relatives and friends, defrauded more than 200,000 yuan and fled to Japan, where she indulged in speculation of virtual currency, not only lost all the money borrowed by relatives and friends, but also owed a lot of debts.
Due to severe malnutrition, Wang Yi's health deteriorated, and in the end, even the lowest-level black workers in Japan were unwilling to hire her. In order to fill her stomach, she can only pick up the rotten green plums that fell on the side of the road to make a living. It can be seen from several social media updates before her death that Wang Yi's body has been skinny due to long-term malnutrition, and her hands and feet are very slender.
Even after this reduction, she is still obsessed with making bad remarks about China on the Internet. Once, she even called on netizens to donate money to her, and she drank the nuclear wastewater discharged from Japan live, but no one paid attention to it.
In the end, this "scholarly beauty", who was once pinned on high hopes, was starved to death in Japan, where she longed for, and even her parents refused to claim the body, and her friends around her were not worthy of sympathy for her fate.
«——·Conclusion·——»
Li Wenbiao, Wang Yi, Chen Fupo and others credulously believed in the provocation of people with ulterior motives and gave up giving up giving birth to their motherland and relatives, and the bitter lessons they eventually encountered warned us to maintain our ability to think independently, not to follow the crowd, but also to realize the value of life through real efforts, rather than pursuing those illusory "free" phantoms.
This story reminds us that the meaning of life is not only to pursue dreams, but more importantly, to know how to be happy, no matter where we live, as long as we experience it with our hearts, we can discover the most precious part of our heart - the attachment to our family and the longing for our motherland. Once you give up on these, it is like giving up the last sustenance in life.
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