5. 聚光燈下 Under The Spotlight

日子: 2005 年 12 月 21 號 / 晚上

他們是青少年. 當你聽到他們對話就會想到自己的高中時代. "你知道安娜史考特嗎?" (借新娘百分百裡的名字來用) "啊? 你不知道安娜史考特是誰?"

學校裡永遠都有些"嚴選人物"在聚光燈下. 他們要不是有名到每個人都想跟他們作朋友, 就是不受歡迎到每個人都以嘲笑他們為樂. 可悲的是即使我們長大成人, 還是有人喜歡談論團體中的嚴選人物. 這種談論(很多時後是嘲笑居多) 讓談論者覺得更親近彼此.

我稱它為"公憤現像"(拿小亨的說法). 跟你說, 每個臺灣同學堆都有這個現像. 我們的行為跟高中生差不多.

Date: Dec.21, 2005 / Evening

They are teenagers. When you hear their conversation you start to recall your own high school days. "Do you know Anna Scott?" (I borrow the name from Notting Hill) "What? You don't know Anna Scott?"

There are always some "selected few" under the spotlight in school. Either they are so popular that everyone wanna make friends with them, or they are so unpopular that everyone enjoys laughing at them. The sad thing is that even we "grow up" as an adult, people still want to talk about the selected few in a clique. Talking about the selected few ( in many cases making fun of them) makes most people feel they are closer to each other.

I call it "target phenomena" (quoted from Heng). Let me tell you it happens in every taiwanese student clique. We are behaving like high school students.