喜剧演员John Crist回国途中发帖盘点美国发明 不到24小时获逾10万个赞
美国喜剧演员 John Crist 结束为期两周的亚洲与中东之旅，在乘机回国途中在 Instagram 发了一篇长帖，盘点他在旅途各地看到的美国品牌与美国发明。据 Crosswalk 11月10日报道，这篇帖文发出不到24小时就获得超过10万个赞和3,500条评论，演员 Candace Cameron Bure 在帖下留言，歌手 Colton Dixon 等人也留言回应。
Crist 在帖中说，他在斯里兰卡乡间看到有人开着 John Deere 拖拉机，他由此写起这家农机公司的来历：1837年在 Illinois 州 Grand Detour 由 John Deere 创办。他接着列举：在世界各地乘飞机，多半坐的是波音飞机，其创始人 William Boeing 1916年在 Seattle 创办公司；全球各地的咖啡馆都能喝到可口可乐，这是 John Pemberton 1886年在 Atlanta 创制；很多人用 WhatsApp 沟通，这款应用由 Brian Acton 与 Jan Koum 2009年在加州 Mountain View 创办。
他还写到导航用的 Google Maps、把药品送到世界各国的 Pfizer、亚马逊与 Facebook 等，并提到卡塔尔航空一名乘务员告诉他，自己盼着到 Dallas 后去 Walmart 给家人买维生素，Crist 随即写下 Walmart 创始人 Sam Walton 1962年在 Arkansas 州 Rogers 创办该公司的来历。
Crist 在帖子结尾说，这份名单可以一直列下去，这应当让每个美国人对这个国家、它的创办者、它的人民、它的机会以及它对世界的贡献感到自豪。他说美国也有缺点，但他已经等不及回到美国，不再喝气泡水，不再用公里和摄氏度，并吃上一份 Chick-fil-A 三明治，随后写下 God Bless America。一名自称住在德州的女子在评论区接话，表达了对发明空调的 Willis Carrier 的喜爱，成为帖下被反复转述的评论之一。
Crist 是来自 Georgia 州的喜剧演员，以教会生活题材的短剧视频走红，长期在全美巡演。Crosswalk 的报道说，这篇帖文在他的账号上引发了大量带有自豪感的回复与补充列举，网友纷纷在评论区加上自己想到的美国发明与品牌。
Comedian John Crist's Flight-Home Post Listing American Inventions Drew More Than 100,000 Likes in Under 24 Hours
American comedian John Crist, flying home from a two-week trip to Asia and the Middle East, posted a long Instagram post listing the American brands and inventions he had seen in everyday life everywhere he went. According to a November 10 report by Crosswalk, the post drew more than 100,000 likes and 3,500 comments in barely 24 hours. Actress Candace Cameron Bure commented below the post, and singer Colton Dixon was among those who replied.
Crist wrote that in the Sri Lankan countryside he saw a man on a John Deere tractor, and he looked up the company: founded in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois, by John Deere, and now the largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth, as he put it. He went on: get on an airplane almost anywhere and it is likely a Boeing, founded by William Boeing in Seattle in 1916; cafes around the world serve Coca-Cola, created by John Pemberton in Atlanta in 1886; and many people communicate on WhatsApp, founded in Mountain View, California, in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
He also listed Google Maps, Pfizer and its medicines distributed worldwide, Amazon and Facebook. A Qatar Airways flight attendant told him she could not wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart for vitamins for her family, and Crist followed that with Walmart's founder, Sam Walton, who started the company in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962.
Crist closed by saying the list could go on for days and should fill every American with pride in the country, its founders, its people, its opportunities and its contributions to the planet. He said the country has its flaws, but he could not wait to get back to America, stop drinking sparkling water, stop using kilometers and Celsius, and eat a Chick-fil-A sandwich, ending with God Bless America. One commenter who said she lives in Texas used the thread to profess her love for Willis Carrier, who invented air conditioning, in a reply that was widely repeated below the post.
Crist is a Georgia comedian known for sketch videos about church life and for touring across the United States. Crosswalk reported that the post drew a wave of proud replies and additions, with commenters adding American inventions and brands of their own.
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图片来源：图：John Crist 2017年资料图（Matt Johnson 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons），原图为竖幅，已置入16:9横幅画布、人物完整保留，非本次发帖画面。/ John Crist in a 2017 file photo (by Matt Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons); the vertical original has been placed on a 16:9 canvas with the subject kept whole, and is not from this post.
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