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Who is Trevor Noah?
You may not know it, but you must be familiar with the name Triva.
At the very least, you must have heard him spit on Trump.
The anchor, affectionately known as "Triva", whose full name is Trevor Noah, is a well-known comedian in the United States.
After the global outbreak of the new crown epidemic, because of a series of paragraphs to counter Trump, he instantly became popular on Weibo and was called "the person who cares most about China".
His language is humorous and wise, and he will be addicted to watching it once, and like many people, my mother is looking for his videos everywhere during this time, and she is really on top
The "Daily Show" he hosted has also become a must-follow show for everyone.
At the time when she took over the Daily Show, Triva was particularly worried that there were not so many news events worth reporting.
Until Trump showed up.
Triva said bluntly: "He has an inherent ability to create so much news on his own." ”
Since then, Triva has always paid attention to Trump and has been complaining until today
In addition to complaining about the passages, The sand sculptures that Cui Wa isolates at home are also the source of everyone's joy.
Originally wanted to imitate Italians singing on the balcony.
The result was scolded...
He even made a collection of his sand sculptures for his daily life, which is simply a masterpiece of drama
In addition to her status as a comedian, Triva is also a producer, writer, political commentator and television host, and with so many titles, you must think he was born into an elite family, right?
inexistent! Triwa's family is not even an ordinary family, for him, to live to the best of his ability.
Born guilty "half-blood"
Looking at Triva's picture, do you think he's white or black?
No, he's a "coffee-colored" hybrid.
Triva's mother is black South Africa and her father is Swiss/White German. In apartheid-era South Africa, black-white unions were illegal and required five years in jail once discovered by the police.
Triva is the ironclad proof of her parents' crimes, and if she is discovered, she will be sent to an orphanage.
In order not to be captured, until the age of 5 or 6, Triwa spent most of her time in the house.
A normal parent-child relationship does not exist for Triwa at all.
He couldn't shout "Daddy", and Dad could only walk across the road when walking.
Once, while walking in the park, Triva chased after her and shouted "Daddy! Father! ”
Triva's father was frightened, pulled out his leg and ran
He also can't go for a walk with his mother, he has to pretend to be a mother and son with a neighbor of color, and his mother is behind him so that he can't be suspected.
Occasionally Mom ventured to take him out alone and let him go as soon as she saw the police, "as if I were a bag of marijuana"
▲ Triwa and her mother
The identity of people of color also put Triwa in an awkward position throughout her growth.
"As a white man among blacks, a black man among white people", he was neither recognized by nor accepted by black people, and he had no friends of the same age except his brothers in the family.
Of course, he also enjoyed some "privileges" because of the color of his skin.
When he lived in his grandmother's house in Soweto, because of his light skin color, everyone thought of him as a white man.
Every time Triwa appeared on the street, there would be children calling out to their parents to come out to see him, and even some people would run to touch him
No matter how big a mistake he made, Grandma wouldn't beat him, because if he hit a white man, he would be blue and purple, and Grandma was afraid of breaking him.
Grandpa was even more outrageous, directly calling Triwa "master".
▲ Triva and Grandma
This "privilege" did not make him feel very happy, but made him deeply reflect on the racial system from an early age, and he also criticized the absurdity of this system many times in talk shows.
In addition to the racial label on her body, Triva's entire growth process, poverty is even more like a shadow.
When he was a child, he spent most of his time at his grandmother's house, where a large family lived in a one-bedroom room, and adults and children all slept on the floor of the same room.
Several shared a tin toilet, could not afford toilet paper, and had to use old newspapers.
Grandma Triva's house▲
Life in the city with mom wasn't much better, and the only meat dishes you could afford were meat crumbs and bones for dogs.
Occasionally buying a chicken to eat, the mother will break the chicken bones and suck the bone marrow inside, Triva said: "We are not 'eating' chickens, we are completely eliminating a chicken." ”
At their poorest, they feed on caterpillars all month long.
Triva describes the feeling: I bit off a Mopani worm, the yellow-green juice oozed out, and I immediately thought to myself, I'm eating bug. ”
After her mother remarried, Triwa has been living in the shadow of her stepfather, he is an alcoholic and tyrannical personality, not only abusing Triwa's mother, but also punching and kicking Triwa.
Loneliness, poverty, hunger, violence, conflict, these accounted for the vast majority of Triva's upbringing.
Although she lives in the gutters, is discriminated against, lacks the company of her father, and is shrouded in the shadow of domestic violence, Triwa is happy most of the time because her mother gives her all the love and warmth.
▲ Triwa and her cousins
The fastest son and mother
Triva's mother is a legend in her own right.
She was black at the bottom of the chain of racial contempt, but she never cared about the well-defined world, she was always breaking the rules.
At that time, there were only two jobs that black women could do, one was a factory woman and the other was a maid.
Triva's mother found a third way.
She signed up for a secretarial training class, learned to type, and eventually got a job as a secretary. (At the time, this was simply impossible for a black woman!) ）
▲ When Triwa's mother was young
She made up her mind to break out of the sky on her own.
Unwilling to live in a black shantytown, she rented an apartment in a white community through various methods and had a child with the white man.
From the moment she decided to give birth to Triwa, she never wanted to hold Triwa's father responsible for anything, and she avoided the police and grew up alone with Triwa.
Of course, she was not a gentle mother, and Triwa was not an obedient child.
When he was a child, Triwa would move all day long, and his mother would take him to the park, bring a frisbee, throw it out, and then let Triwa run to pick it up, so that he would vent his energy over and over again.
Later, when he saw the white man walking his dog, he learned that his mother trained him as a dog!
There is still extra energy to vent, he will be mischievous, play with fire to burn other people's homes, steal things in the mall, take care of his grandmother all the time crying, all kinds of pranks at school all day...
Mom had to beat her.
So it is common to see a woman in high heels chasing a little boy with something in her hand.
If his mother threw something at him, he still had to think, is it worth it? valuable. Will it shatter? Will shatter. Catch, put away, run.
Day after day, Triva and her mother became the fastest people in the entire neighborhood.
When Triva was older and her mother couldn't catch up with him, she began to use her wisdom. Seeing that Triwa was running away, her mother would shout, "Stop! Catch the thief! ”
In the end, her neighbors will help to deal with Cui Wa, and Cui Wa can only shout: "I am not a thief, I am her son!" ”
Hahahahaha, are you sure Triva is biological?
After beating Triwa, I don't have a long memory, and when the bruises on her body are gone, it's time to do something bad again
Although she was not soft when beating Triwa, her mother gave Triwa the best education.
My task is to feed your body, mind, and mind
From the moment Triwa was born, her mother hoped that her child would not be bound by fate, and she once said to Triwa: "My task is to feed your body, your spirit, and your mind." ”
In order to give Triva more opportunities, she made English her mother tongue.
It is her fluent English that makes Triva very popular among popular american programs and loved by many American audiences.
In addition to English, Triva also learned the languages of various black ethnic groups in South Africa, Afrikaans, and German with her mother. Mastering these languages allowed him to navigate the complex society of South Africa.
Once Triva was walking down the street, followed by a group of Zulus, discussing how to rob him.
Triva was in a hurry and said to them in Zulu, "Yo, man, why don't we rob anyone else?" I'll be with you. ”
The Zulus, who did not know the truth, regarded him as their own, so Triva escaped the disaster
Mom also often encouraged Triva to read, and she used all her money to buy food and books.
Every time she went to church, my mother would come home with a large box of books donated by white people.
Mom would often read those stories to Triva, and every time she would test him: What does this paragraph mean? What does it mean for you? How do you use it in your life?
As a child, her mother taught Triva the most important thing: how to think.
In addition to books, mom also constantly creates opportunities for Triwa to explore the world.
In her free time, her mother often took Triva around the high-end white community, and she would lift Triwa on her shoulder and let him cross the fence to see what life was like for white people.
She also took Triva to skate, go to the movies, go on a picnic in the countryside... These are all things that white children do.
Everyone thought Triva's mother was crazy: "Why do you want to do these things?" He couldn't leave the slums for the rest of his life, so why show him the outside world? ”
Triva's mother said firmly: "Even if he can't live without the slums all his life, he can know that the slums are not the whole world." Even if I could only make him understand this truth, that would be enough. ”
Mom is all about letting Triva see more possibilities in the world and letting him know that he is free to go anywhere, do anything, and become anyone.
In addition to opening a window for Triwa to spy on the world and give him the ability to live freely, his mother also taught him a positive outlook on life.
When Triwa grew up, there was almost no shadow of her father, and when she was a child, she could only watch from a distance, and when she was 12 years old, her father moved to another city and completely disappeared.
But Mom never said bad things about Triva's dad, but always talked about his various strengths.
She told Triva that her father's departure was forced by circumstances, not that he did not love you, and that it was you that he had always chosen.
At the age of 24, her mother said to Triva, "You have to go to your father, he is a part of your life, if you don't go to him, you won't find yourself." ”
After 12 years, seeing her father again, Triwa proves that her mother is right and that he has always been loved by her father.
At his father's house, he found a scrapbook full of news about him, newspapers, magazines, lists of programs where his name appeared...
▲ Triva and Dad
Mom used love to dissolve Triwa's loneliness, and Mom and Dad also proved with actions that even if the world does not love you, you are also the child that Mom and Dad choose together.
Mom also taught him how to love people better, especially how to be a man who respects women.
He would say to Triva:
"Trevor, remember, a man's worth is not determined by how much money he makes. Being a man doesn't mean everything has to be more than your woman. ”
"Trevor, remember, your woman is the only one in your life. Don't be the man who pits his wife against his mom. A man with a wife doesn't owe his mother anything. ”
"Trevor, don't forget: before you have sex with a woman's vagina, you have to have sex with her brain."
"Trevor, foreplay starts during the day. Foreplay doesn't start until you get into the bedroom. ”
Every time Triwa was dazed: What? What is foreplay? What does this mean?
Her mother created a world for Triwa that was completely different from the environment in which she grew up, so even when she grew up in a violent world, Triwa herself was not violent at all, but was full of love and respect for others.
She also made Triva's vision of the world change, making him understand that not all families are full of violence, and love is more powerful than violence.
Laugh out loud on a sad day
Anyone who has watched Triwa's talk show can find that a very ordinary little thing, once described by Triwa, will make people laugh.
Most of this comedic talent comes from Triwa's mother.
Once Triva wanted her mother to buy him a pair of Adidas sneakers, and her mother brought back a pair of counterfeit, Abidas.
Triwa said helplessly, "Mom, this is fake." ”
Mom said, "I don't see the difference." ”
"Look at this marker, there are four bars here, really only three."
"Lucky you," said Mom, "you have one more bar than anyone else." ”
Another time, in order to prepare for the graduation dance, Triwa took a good look at herself and changed into new clothes and hairstyles.
As soon as she got home, my mother began to scream.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa They turned my precious son into a cute little girl! I have a lovely little daughter! Hello beautiful! ”
"Mom! You've had enough, don't say it. ”
"Are you coming out to me?"
"What? No. How can you say that? ”
"You know, even if you're gay, it doesn't matter."
"No, Mom, I'm not gay."
Hahaha, how can there be such a funny mom.
Occasionally, mom would be more beautiful than Triwa, and every Sunday before going to church, mom would make a good look and put on a beautiful skirt and high heels.
When she was fully armed, she would quip to Triva, "Who is the most beautiful person in the family now?" I hope you're happy to be a beauty this week, because at this moment the queen is back on the throne. ”
In addition to the daily jokes, even in the most dangerous situation, Triwa's mother has shown optimism and strength beyond ordinary people.
Once, Triva and her mother went to church, and on the minibus on the way back, the driver learned that Triva's mother was from Xhosa (the driver felt that the private life of the Xhosa woman was chaotic), was completely enraged, and began to verbally threaten the three of them.
"Disgusting woman, you should have learned a lesson tonight."
Triwa's mother told the driver to shut up, and the driver still scolded and grinned, yelling at them, comparing his fingers, driving the car faster, running all the way, completely non-stop.
The whole road was empty, no other cars passed, Triva's mother asked to get off, and the driver, instead of listening, drove faster.
In the circumstances at the time, they could all be killed.
In the end, Triva's mother decided to jump out of the car.
When the car approached the intersection, Triwa's mother pulled open the side door and threw Triwa out of the speeding car with the greatest force. Then she took Triva's brother in her arms and jumped down.
After rolling and rolling all the way, after finally stopping, her mother shouted at Triwa: "Run! ”
So Triwa and her mother both ran, and the minibus driver got out of the car and chased after her, but no one could run faster than Triwa and her mother.
They kept running and running until they stopped at a 24-hour gas station, when they were covered in wounds and bleeding.
The mother who escaped the danger had a big smile on her face and laughed loudly, and Triwa also laughed.
In the middle of the night, a little boy and his mother, both with blood stains and dirt stains on their arms and legs, stood in the glimmer of the gas station across the road, enduring the pain and laughing together.
Another time, the stepfather hit her mother in the head with a gun, but fortunately a miracle occurred, and the bullet only removed a small piece of skin from her left nostril, which was no big deal.
When Triwa went to visit her mother, she broke down and cried, and her mother kept comforting him: "You have to see the good side." ”
Triva was shocked, "Mom, you were shot in the head by a bullet, is there a good side to this?" ”
Mom said, "Of course there is." From now on, you are officially the best looking person in this family. ”
Subsequently, Triva's mother showed a bright smile on her face and laughed loudly.
There was a talk show where Triwa had tears in her eyes and laughed and teased the experience
Her mother infects Triwa with her optimistic humor, so that Triwa, who has experienced racial discrimination, poverty and violence, has always maintained an optimistic attitude towards life, and through comedy, reconciles with past suffering.
As Triva said, "As long as you laugh, you live." ”
▲ Triwa's mother
Genes, the environment, and education affect and even change the trajectory of a person's life all the time.
Mom's great love has always encouraged Triwa, allowing him to achieve a class leap and pursue a more free life.
As a mother, she gave Triwa the richest love and the best education in the barren society.
As a black woman, even if she survives in the cracks between racial discrimination and sexism, she has never yielded, and has always bravely pursued the life she wants and made her voice heard.
It is precisely because of such a brave, strong, optimistic and courageous mother that Triva can go from the slum to the world stage.
They are mother and son, and they are also comrades in arms against the world.
bibliography:
briefly.co.za/18473-best-trevor-noah-mother-father-images
www.sapeople.com/2016/11/14/south-african-comedian-trevor-noahs-lessons-from-home-born-a-crime
Trevor Noah, Born Guilty (Beijing United Publishing Company)
Strongly recommend Cui Wa's autobiography "BORN A CRIME", you can listen to the English version of the audiobook, which Cui Wa herself read.
When My Mother listened, some places made me laugh, and some places made me burst into tears, which was especially worth reading.
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