73岁的中国奶奶，在纽约突然成了网红！原因太暖心了……
73岁的林奶奶也没有料到，来到纽约的她，居然成为了ins上的一名小“网红”……
下面这个看起来精神又慈祥的奶奶名叫林兰（音译），今年73岁了。
(图 Nick Otto via Washington Post，下同)
这位来自广东台山的奶奶其实并不知道啥是ins，也根本玩不转ins。
只是，在她去了纽约之后，她的女儿Lisa时不时会将她做的菜拍摄下来，上传到ins上。
而这些菜，当然都是妥妥的中国美味……
Lisa在ins上发妈妈（林奶奶）做的点心的图
不仅如此，女儿还会拍林奶奶做菜的样子，还会邀请林奶奶在做菜时当着镜头的面聊聊天，比如这是啥菜、怎么做、有没有什么趣事儿……
林奶奶在做汤圆
刚开始Lisa这么拍来拍去，林奶奶还挺不解：你把这些发到网上，谁会看呀？
林奶奶做的煎饺
结果，奶奶没想到的事情发生了……
全美国各地第一、二、三代的移民们，都围过来看32岁的Lisa拍的她和母亲一起做中国菜了。
林奶奶一下子变成了ins上的“网红”。
或许她自己并没有料到，女儿给她拍的做菜视频，实在是太戳海外游子的心了：一个穿着围裙的老奶奶，一边做着好看又好吃的中国佳肴，一边用家乡话（台山话）絮絮叨叨地拉家常……
As she cooks, she explains the recipe in Taishanese, the dialect she grew up speaking in Taishan, a city in south China’s coastal Guangdong province. Lisa leans over her mother’s shoulder, recording the video on her phone.
林奶奶一边做饭，一边用台山话解释着菜谱。台山是中国南部沿海广东省的一座城市，她就在那里长大。女儿Lisa倚在母亲肩上，用手机录下了这段视频。
“I asked my mom how much rice is in here, and she said seven cups,” Lisa translates. “But she apparently used this cup to measure it.”
“我问妈妈这里面有多少米饭，她说有七杯。”Lisa在视频里翻译道。“显然，她是用杯子来测量的。”
The 73-year-old Chinese Instagram star giving fans a taste of home – and a sense of belonging
“用杯子盛米”这种小细节，或许会让从小在美国生长的移民二代三代们感到茫然。
但对于他们怀揣着中国记忆的长辈来说，却是一下子就戳到心坎儿了。
这样的人间烟火气息太过美好，就像自己记忆中远在故乡的奶奶。
黄皮肤的慈祥面孔，熟悉的家乡菜，简直太能抚慰人心了……
They watch Lan’s videos for a sense of belonging, a reminder of grandmothers still in China, dishes they have not eaten since childhood, recipes they never thought to learn before moving across the world.
他们通过看林奶奶的视频来寻觅一种归属感，一种对远在中国的祖母的牵挂。看着视频，他们能想起那些童年后就没再吃过的食物，以及在移居去世界各地之前从没打算学的菜谱。
The 73-year-old Chinese Instagram star giving fans a taste of home – and a sense of belonging
林奶奶做的面条
林奶奶在ins上的粉丝们，也会时常在林奶奶的图片视频下面留言。
或是称赞，或是表达感激，或是借地思乡……他们用这样的方式，表白着自己的中国胃与中国心：
“It meant so much that when I was watching those videos and seeing her make this food with her mom, I was also hearing these familiar sounds that I grew up with,” she says.
“这对我来说太有意义了……我看着她和妈妈一起做菜的视频时，也听到了伴随着我长大的熟悉口音。”
林奶奶和女儿一起炸蝴蝶酥
“Now I can go to Lisa’s account and watch these videos and see her learning, and it reflects my own learning. When I hear the language and when I see the beautiful food that those two make, it feels like home.”
“现在我可以去Lisa的ins上看视频，看她跟着她妈妈学做菜。这让我也想起了我自己学做菜的时候。看着她俩做着美味佳肴，听着熟悉的方言，我就像在自己家里一样。”
就这样，通过一个小小的ins账号，一对有爱的母女，一些简单又温馨的视频，林奶奶和女儿温暖了数万海外游子。
那是对亲人的牵挂，对故土的思念。
共怀中国心，天涯若比邻。
祝远在海外的同胞们春节快乐！
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来源：环球时报GlobalTimes（ID：GlobalTimesNews），整合：lanlan
本期编辑：胡洪江、李娜
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老年女性沉迷社交网络“出轨”明星？偶像是假的，孤独是真的
61岁的黄阿姨最近被骗了，不仅损失了一些钱财，还受了“情伤”。
而她并不是类似骗局的唯一受害者。
这一切都要从抖音上的一类假视频开始说起。在剪辑粗糙的视频中，骗子假借中国著名男演员靳东的画面，操着天南海北的口音，向屏幕这边的观众们表达爱意，诱骗她们点赞关注，甚至是开直播带货骗钱，目标受众是那些文化程度不太高的中老年农村女性。
Huang, 61, from southeast China's Jiangxi Province, is still reeling from a scam that drained her emotionally and financially.
It all started with a man on short video app Douyin, who looked like a famous Chinese actor. The man, young and handsome, is seen talking in a series of short videos professing his love for Huang, "I understand you are under a lot of pressure, and I am here to listen." In one of the videos, he sang a romantic song, and in some others, he just asked Huang to click "like" and follow him on the app.
Though Huang had never met him, she couldn't control her feelings for him. For months, she sent him messages and transferred money to an account purportedly owned by him. She even left her husband to search for him, hoping to meet and ultimately marry him.
It ended up that the entire thing was a scam. The bogus account had nothing to do with the actor, and the short videos in which the actor professed his love were entirely made by scammers. Huang kept seeing them because the app's algorithm determined that she is likely to engage with the video based on her past behavior.
After the scam was exposed by Chinese media, Huang was still reluctant to believe that she had been deceived. With the social media platform still investigating the incident, hundreds of middle-aged and senior women were found to be the targets of similar fraud scams.
An elderly woman in a live-streaming on short video platform. /VCG
中国新闻门户网站网易的一项研究发现，在抖音上给假冒名人短视频评论的用户中，30.35%是40 - 50岁的女性，50岁以上的女性则占约15%。
纽约大学老龄创新孵化中心联合负责人、纽约大学迈尔斯护理学院吴蓓教授表示，对于中国农村女性来说，婚姻是一个应用函数问题。在结婚和抚养孩子方面，他们没有太多选择，因为他们期望自己老了以后能得到照顾。
“但作为人类，渴望社会支持和社会联系，”吴教授说，“对于这些女性来说，没有了爱的空间，在情感支持这一块就是真空的。
长期缺乏情感支持使农村妇女不知不觉中成为心理健康问题的受害者——根据《2018年中国全国心理健康发展报告》，农村留守妇女比男性更容易抑郁和焦虑。
A research done by the Chinese news portal NetEase found that among the users commenting on those bogus short videos impersonating celebrities on Douyin, 30.35 percent are women between the age of 40 and 50. Around 15 percent are women over 50.
In the comment section, those women, many from rural areas, confided that they felt heard and understood by watching those short videos. "Your song reaches the bottom of my heart," wrote one elderly woman. "My entire life, all I did was serve my husband, my children, and later my grandchildren."
For women in rural China, marriage is a matter of utility function, said Bei Wu, professor of Global Health and director of global health and aging research at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. They don't have many options in terms of who to marry and raise the children with the expectation that when they grow old, they would be taken care of.
"But we, as human beings, long for social support and social connection," said Wu. "For those women, there is no room for love, so that leaves a huge vacuum for emotional support."
That long-term deprivation of emotional support made women in rural areas the silent victims of mental health problems. According to the 2018 Report on National Mental Health Development in China, women who are left behind in rural areas are more likely to experience depression and anxiety compared with men.
An elderly man carries firewood. /VCG
社交媒体的爆炸式增长，尤其是抖音和快手等短视频应用，利用了中国农村女性未能得到满足的情感需求。她们的主要职责是留守在家里照顾家人，因此拥有大量空闲时间花在各种短视频网站上。
AgeClub 银发壹族创始人CEO段杰明表示，由于短视频应用对读写能力几乎没有要求，并且它们算法驱动的操作意味着老年人不需要主动搜索信息，因此它们在老年人中的用户群正在迅速扩大。
但，这些女性有限的教育背景和信息渠道却让她们无法识别社交网络上的错误信息，从而成为网络诈骗的目标。
The explosive growth of social media, in particular short video apps like Douyin and Kuaishou, tapped into that unmet demand for emotional connection among women in rural China. Since many of their primary responsibility is to stay at home and take care of the family, the vast amount of free time they have is now spent watching short videos on their smartphones.
It is clear that short videos are gaining popularity among elders, said Duan Mingjie, CEO and founder of AgeClub, a consulting firm specialized in research on senior citizens. Since short video apps have virtually no requirement for literacy, and their algorithm-driven operation means elders do not need to actively search for information, their user base among senior citizens is expanding at a rapid speed.
But social media and the digital world can potentially increase the gap between those "who have and those who have-nots," said Wu from New York University. The lack of tech know-how, compounded with the longing for emotional connection, made elder women of lower income and lower educational background easy targets of online scams.
Many of those women cannot identify misinformation on social media, and family intervention oftentimes end up creating further polarization. In the case of Huang, when her family members tried to persuade her out of wiring money to the bogus account, endless fights ensued. By playing the role of sympathetic grandchildren or using romance scams to appeal to widowed or divorced elderly women, fraudsters could use a range of tactics to get the elderly victims to fall into the trap.
Seniors sit under the sun in Hainan, China. /VCG
This means that social media platforms can play a more active role in combating frauds and taking into consideration of the needs of elderly users, said Duan. After the case of Huang was exposed, Douyin announced that it took down more than 5,000 spam accounts, which gained followers by impersonating celebrities.
But there are always means for scamers to target elders, by changing the means through which they reach out to the elderly population. The old trick of phone scams to steal money and personal information has now evolved into clickbait scams, phishing scams, or whatever other forms.
在中国的许多城市，老年护理中心、社区和老年大学已经开始提供旨在提高老年人科技素养的培训项目。在大学生志愿者的帮助下，这些老人能够掌握一些基本的信息技术知识。
但在农村，这样的机会少之又少。越来越多的农村年轻人加入到向城市移民的大潮中，老人们没有多少机会四处迁徙，也没有多少机会体验这个世界，他们在面对复杂的数字世界时，没有人可以求助。
In many cities across China, senior care centers, residential communities, and universities for the elderly have started to offer training programs aimed to improve the tech literacy of elders. With the help of volunteer college students, those elders have grasped the basic tech know-hows.
Elders learn to use the computer at a university for elders in Kunming, China. /VCG
But rural residents are less able to access those training programs. As young people joined the relentless current of urban migration, with less means to move around and to experience the world, elders in rural areas have no one to turn to when it comes to navigating the complex digital world.
It used to be the case in rural China, where there were strong communities. But with the rapid urbanization, the family support system is being eroded now, said Wu.
"They are lonely. They don't have resources and opportunities to see the outside world," she noted. "So we need to restore that community support."
64岁老太不结婚，卖了豪宅住进8㎡蜗居，却过上人人羡慕的日子
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不爱大house，
偏爱8㎡老鼠屋？
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64岁，对大多数人来说，已经是退休养老，含饴弄孙的年纪了。
这个时候，舒适的大房子，安定的生活，似乎才是安心养老的标配。
但澳大利亚的克莱尔·科林斯（Clare Colins）却走上了完全相反的道路。
她卖掉了自己三居室的大房子，还掉了剩余的银行贷款，出售并赠送除了自己所有的收藏，包括艺术品、古董和一些乐器。
她是准备搬进养老院安度晚年，还是打算和自己的孩子们一起生活？
都不是，她买下了一辆房车，准备以此为家，过上浪迹天涯的游牧式生活。
房车总共的居住面积只有8㎡，很多人可能无法理解，为什么放着三居室的大房子不住，住进8㎡的房车？
64岁的老人，为什么还要放弃安定的生活，开始漂泊流浪？
其实原因很简单，她只是想活在当下，不留遗憾，追求自己想要的人生。
现在不行动，以后再后悔就晚了。
家不在大小，而在归属感
Clare给自己的房车取了个名字，叫做“mouse house”（鼠屋），虽然面积很小，但是五脏俱全。
买下鼠屋，她花了2万6美元，接下来又花了一年时间设计改装，把这个属于自己的小家变成心目中最想要的样子，又花了4万5美元。
虽然鼠屋只有8㎡，甚至还没有一个正常房间大，但Clare花了很多心思，设计图是自己亲手画的，装修团队也是找的房车专业人士。
但从外观来看，鼠屋通体白色，看上去很普通。
但打开车门就能看到特别之处，原木门窗就让人眼前一亮，好像真的有了家的感觉。
Clare还在木门上刻了两只可爱的小老鼠，作为鼠屋的标志。
走进去，首先映入眼帘的是一个小小的厨房，东西非常齐全。
最上面是顶格的L形橱柜，增加了收纳空间，杯子还有一些不是特别常用的厨房用品都放在里面。
橱柜和灶台之间的墙面空间也没有浪费，左边用磁铁架收纳刀具、剪刀，大小尺寸，一应俱全。
右边的木质搁板上则放着食用油、调味品等等，墙面空间得到了充分利用。
下方的灶台空间也设计得相当合理，煤气灶下方就是个小小的嵌入式烤箱，一个人完全够用。
给自己烤个面包，做个烤鸡，方便又美味。
灶台左边是整体抽拉式的置物架，要用什么，顺手就能拿到。
右边的抽屉则放满了各种刀叉餐具，就算上路流浪，精致的生活习惯也不能丢。
过房车生活，很多人最好奇的就是水电怎么办，其实不用担心，整辆房车从内到外的设施都是由太阳能和锂电池供应发动的，一般不会出现没电用的情况。
至于生活用水，只要定期去营地储存够就可以了。
Clare的鼠屋里，灶台边上就是一个隐藏的卫生间。
盖上盖子，它只是个平平无奇的储物柜，而打开盖子，它就是个折叠卫生间。
卫生间里有抽水马桶，还有花洒，内部材料都是防水的，也不用担心漏水的问题。
而在车厢尾部，就是Clare的床，不大不小，一个人睡是绰绰有余了。
床上面是一个小巧的天窗，可以让光线进入，还可以在夜晚仰望星空，想想就觉得美滋滋。
床下还有机关，坐在床边的简易沙发凳上，抽出隐藏的木板，你想要在这里就餐、看书、工作，都可以。
本职是摄影师的Clare还给自己专门设计了一个站立工作间，就在车门后面。
长期坐着工作对颈椎不好，而这个工作间让她能站着处理图片，工作累了还能眺望门外的风景，她很满意。
这辆房车载着自己的家，改装完毕，Clare就踏上了自己的旅程，一整年的时间，她一直在路上。
抛开一切去追随自己的激情，这听起来像是在年轻时要做的事情。但实际上，冒险的冲动可以随时发生，不要狭隘地把它和年龄绑定。
身体在路上，生活在远方
全新的生活让Clare有了和以前完全不同的体验，她学会了使用GoPro摄像机，成为了一个与众不同的YouTube视频博主。
她在新南威尔士州的牧场，偶遇一群可爱的牛羊。
在汉密尔顿的小镇上，她见到一个美丽的花园，就停下来闻闻花香，定格它们的美丽，然后离开，继续前往下一个地方。
在奥林匹克公路边，她拍下很多已经没人住的房子，仿佛留下了旧时光的景象。
她还会在清早骑着自行车，去河流与大海汇合的地方，静静等待太阳的升起，然后再回到房车，吃一顿早餐。
甚至连天空的颜色、云朵的形状、晚风的气息，都让人如此放松。
上路之后，她才发现，原来选择游牧生活的人，还有很多。
在营地里，她认识了很多朋友，Annie住在一辆巨大的梅赛德斯老爷车上，Rosie有一辆已经老化的旅行车。
他们有时候会开着自己的房车，来一场野外的聚会。
他们有时候就只是单纯地聚在一起，一边晒太阳一边聊天。
有时候等到夜幕降临，就在树下办一场小型演唱会。
当然，这世上没有任何一种生活，是毫无烦恼的。
比如有一次， Clare回到房车，发现天窗漏了，床上被雨水淋湿，已经睡不了人了。
无奈之下，她只能大晚上去找专门的维修店，而睡在房车地板上，并不是那么有趣的经历。
但是当有人问她，后悔卖房子吗？
她却只是微微一笑，“虽然我有时候会想念我的有机蔬菜园，我又大又漂亮的厨房，我挂满了一整面墙的艺术品，但我并不后悔。”
没有房贷，没有了生活上的焦虑，不管是经济上、身体上还是精神上，现在的生活方式都让Clare觉得无比轻松和自由。
“我终于拥有了自己想要的生活，为什么要后悔呢？”
不后悔的人生不是只有一种选择
疫情发生之后，Clare没办法像去年一样到处旅行，走遍自己想去的地方。
于是，她换了一种方式，在自己买的一个营地上暂时定居下来。
她着手改造一栋破旧的老屋，把它布置成自己想要的样子。
Clare自己动手做了一张床，用废木头制成了凳子，现在，她正沉迷于雕刻铲子和勺子。
她还在房子周围的荒地上种了很多植物，期待着有一天能吃上自己种的菜。
鼠屋就静静地停在房子旁边的空地上，等待着有一天Clare再次出发。
对现在的Clare来说，在哪儿生活已经不是最重要的了，因为她有了上路的勇气，她的心灵是自由的。
只要她想，随时都可以去她想去的地方。
这个今年已经65岁的流浪者告诉我们，做想做的事，任何时候都不晚。
每个人的人生追求不同，不是所有人都要去过流浪的生活，只是人生苦短，无论多少岁，都不要给人生留下遗憾。
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