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The purpose of the research talked about the first African-American, Barack Obama, won the US presidential election in 2009 compared to his counterpart, Soong Mei-ling, was the most influential woman in modern Chinese history. The research has been proceeded by qualitative research, used document analysis, historical approach to classify, summarize and analyze all the collected data. It referred to four perspectives. 1. Youth foundation 2. New education concept 3. Social attitudes 4. Personal traits to study their religious views, practice of love and practice of showing life limitations. In order to view Obama and Soong’s life testimonies, the research was based on the theoretical thinking of their real life testimonies, emphasized on reviewing the related past researches therefore, to know about their religious views, love and practice of showing life limitations. The conclusions are as follows: First, on the religious views, Obama’s faith was to call for all human beings in the world to take the calls to love and dedicate together, appealing people love and understand one other to give the people around us courtesy and respect for a short life time. Second, the practice of love, Obama dedicated himself from serving the underprivileged black community until he participated politics. In his office as the US president, he promoted health insurance, showed consideration to the underpriced ones, he governed the country with love, not because of mercy or sympathy for them, but put himself in others’ places. On the other hand, Soong is full of enthusiasm and patriotism about her motherland who had a strong will to do something for country. One thing different between them was China always under unstable situation that made it impossible to carry out through all china by one order, one policy, all that she could do was to extend her work from a point or a line, to ministry people with love. She would dedicate herself for the country, to treat whatever known or unknown people with kindness, fairness, and justice. Third, Obama started from grassroots, devoted to reform, he’s no long pray negatively, but to become an active positive black Christian who fight the freedom for the black people and all humans dignity. For the sake of God gives freedom to the United States and found a state on the basis of Christianity belief , to make the country keep moving forward. Soong Mei-ling, a unusual lady who crossed three generations, influenced Chiang Kai-shek and modern China deeply, not only to win the personal image, but also to get the United States to assist the suffering China, went across the history, experienced rights and wrongs, had successes and failures, she always enriched her life by completing short-term tasks. Fourth, Obama and Soong Mei-ling have something in common, as for religious view, the two leaders are Christians, show in the external, life, thinking, behavior, are truly good examples of the witness of life: the practice of love, they both started from the individual, Obama was from the corners in Chicago, Soong Mei-ling was from the underprivileged areas in the society. Trying to help people in some corners of the world; Last but not least, the practice of showing life limitations, Obama and Soong Mei-ling’s good models have been leading us ahead, emulate us , try to rearrange the order of desire, hope, expectation, make plans to put them into practice.
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