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外刊赏读（《基督箴言报》2016年3月10日） 本文选自《基督箴言报》中一篇名为 “Why Canada embraces Syrian refugees, while US is still wary？”的文章。文章由对比加美两国对叙利亚难民救助力度的差距，从历史传统、加拿大人的观念以及叙利亚儿童艾伦·科迪的事故等方面，分析了加拿大热心救助叙利亚难民的原因。 【原文】 Ⅰ①?On a chilly Canadian night in December, the country’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, greeted the first planeload of Syrian refugees to reach Canadian soil with handshakes, hugs, and warm puffy coats. Ⅱ①Trudeau’s welcome party at the Toronto airport that night reflected a campaign pledge he’d made in the fall campaign to open Canada to up to 25,000 Syrian refugees within months – and to double that to 50,000 by the end of 2016. Ⅲ①But behind that campaign pledge was something deeper, a national ethic and tradition of welcoming the victims of the worlds conflicts that contrasted sharply with the much more modest goals and contradictory responses to Syrian refugees in the United States. ②Mr. Obama’s comparatively diminutive pledge to take in?10,000 Syrian refugees this year was met with a chorus of outrage from largely Republican governors and anti-immigration groups. Ⅳ①In Canada’s case, the bighearted welcome reflects a number of both intrinsic and practical factors: Canadians generally pride themselves on an openness to the world and a desire to share their national good fortune with the world’s less fortunate. ②On a practical level, Canada has for decades welcomed refugees under a three-tiered national system of public, private-sector, and individual responses. Ⅴ①The system includes a “Private Sponsorship of refugees” program, under which Canadian organizations and even groups of as few as five adults can essentially adopt refugees, taking on the financial, social integration, and other responsibilities of the new arrivals’ first year in Canada. Ⅵ① “I’d really say it’s in our national DNA to stand up and respond to these situations of upheaval and humanitarian crisis around the world,” says Louisa Taylor, director of a grassroots coalition of individuals and nongove