#Beijing2020 #EileenGu
Eileen got her 1st gold medal. Eileen is definitely a super achiever. She is also a math genius, having trained in the math Olympics summer camp in Beijing. She graduated from high school one year earlier & was accepted by Stanford with an almost full SAT
score of 1580.
Her mother Guyan is also a super achiever, being a professional speed skater and later a coach. Academic wise, Guyan graduated from Beijing university majoring in chemistry before obtaining an MBA from Stanford.
Guyan also had a career in Wall Street as an investor.
Eileen is more or less brought up by her mother and Grandma in Beijing. She is an all-round champion, also good at piano, basketball, running.... all to a high level winning prizes.
Americans can't get over Eileen Gu winning medals for China.
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Chinese culture 101 for South Korea
Not understanding Chinese culture, not understanding the hidden meaning of Chinese cultural symbols, arbitrarily editing the motif of the national flag which China gave Korea (when Korea was China's tributary state) has disastrous consequences.
Symbol of is turned into symbol of Chaos.
Historically Korea was a tributary state of China. Korea became independent after China lost the Jiawu war to Japan in 1894.
When the modern national flag concept was introduced, Korea asked the Qing Dynasty to allow them to use the
dragon flag, but the Qing imperial court declined the request, considering inappropriate as Korea was on a lower hierarchy vis-à-vis the central dynasty. Ma Jianzhong, a distinguished scholar and diplomat of Qing dynasty proposed instead in 1882 the classic Chinese
A cultivated French insists Arte is objective and neutral about China and recommended to me a prize winning documentary on China on an Ayi (Auntie)'s struggles in Shanghai. Surprised, I asked,"Does this film fit the western narrative of China, ie,
closed, backward, ignorant, poor, mean, repressed, distorted, no individuality, no individual freedom?"
He said, "No, very very positive and very very uplifting.. "
So, I watched. Wow, the light is the BBC filter style, ie, the atmosphere of the underworld...
However this is the most positive West can come up with about China.
This is what an American looks like after decades of CIA propaganda. They are thoroughly lobotomized. Stupid Americans are easier to manipulate. But a nation can't expect retarded stock to excel in science & technology. US has to import undamaged brainpower, especially from China
Another pathetic American specimen.
US must be desperate. They now object to China's presence in South China Sea for environmental reasons. Remember US dropped nuclear bombs in Marshall Islands. Don't see how radioactivity creating Frankenstein sea creatures is green & clean.
BTW, nuclear testing also caused cancer in human creatures. These glorious US deeds are OK.
"Chinese people who have lived or settled in the West for a long time will sooner or later be faced with a choice of which side you are on. No one is openly forcing you, but the deep-rooted anti-Chinese environment
will send Chinese to three camps, the broadest group I call "self-interested", they do not listen, refuse to see, all their energy is spent on fighting and getting ahead for themselves, do not care how the West treats their home country, only struggling for the narrow
space to survive; the second group I call "integrationists", the characteristic of this group of people is that "you hate China, don't you? Then I hate China more than you", "You slap China once, I will slap China thrice". These are the only two ways to live in peace.
France has become a cultural desert. Propaganda permeates every corner, every detail of life. As pointed out by a Chinese writer, a film critic Bian Qing (边芹)
"How much of the mirage of the "independence and freedom" of the French artists and intelligentsia still remains?
The shadow of "political correctness" hangs over almost every area of culture. In the films I am most familiar with, for example, apart from the visible freedom of sex, the control of the system is pervasive, and to the eye that can see, it is all about political domination.
This "political command" is very different from our Chinese understanding of direct slogan shouting, where the "system" is not the government, control is not explicit, but dark, deep subtle manipulation. The Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Arte is an European channel broadcasting in France & Germany. When one does a search on China, these titles come up. All are fake news, all are cheap propaganda. Europeans think Chinese are brainwashed and China is a country where truth is censored.
Interesting to note is that many Chinese students go abroad with the conviction that they've been brainwashed in China & the West is where they'll find freedom & objectivity. They discover the reality is the other way around.
If Chinese brainwashing is 3 on a scale of 10, western brainwashing is 10.