Being of Chinese descent

I will be laughing my head off if I see an athlete of CHinese descent(who represents another country) that is very anti-China, to win 1st place over a Chinese athlete (of the PRC) in the upcoming Olympics.


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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/chinese-americans-divided-over-olympic-protests/

April 9, 2008, 5:49 pm
Chinese-Americans Divided Over Olympic Protests
By Jennifer 8. Lee

As the most-high profile Olympics in a generation approaches, just four months away, the world has simultaneously cast one eye toward the violent Tibetan clashes in China and the other toward the roving (and lately also violent) path of the Olympic torch, which has drawn the ire of protesters.

In New York City, home to a broad range of Chinese immigrants and their children, the attitudes of Chinese-Americans toward the conflicts are as diverse as the people themselves, depending upon how they feel about the government of China, the sense of an uber-Chinese identity, and the mixing of politics and sports. Attitudes range from indifference to patriotism to harsh criticism of the Chinese government.
Many people echoed the ideal that sports should be separate from global politics (though that did not stop the Americans from boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 or the Soviet Union from reciprocally boycotting the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984).
“It’s like a wedding,” said Grace Zhong, 35, a Chinatown herbalist who came from Guangdong Province 15 years ago. “Think about it. Even if you hate the person, you don’t have to choose that day to ruin it for the bride and for guests.”
“If you want to work at it,” she said, “you choose the moment to say you have to change.”
The Olympics serve as a beacon of pride for those in greater China (otherwise known as places that China thinks of as China). “For so many years, it is the first time it makes me proud to be Chinese,” said Nienwen Lee, 38, a flight attendant for China Airlines who was visiting from Taiwan. “I’m so sorry about the violence between Tibet and China. I feel sorry for both sides, because we are all Chinese. The problem could be resolved, but it needs to take some time and more wisdom.”
Others may contest the idea of whether Tibetans are actually Chinese in the same way that the dominant Han majority is Chinese. “I don’t want the Olympics there,” said Lobsang Choedon, who was born in Tibet but has lived in the United States since 2000.
“I hope we have some chance of independence,” said Ms. Choedon, who was in Flushing, Queens. “It’s terrible in Lhasa. I called Tibet. My cousin told me that the Chinese government goes door to door in the night to shoot people.”
Other Han Chinese echo the criticism of the Chinese government. “I feel like the Olympics shouldn’t be in China because of Tibet,” said Kim Chen, 25, a sales clerk in an electronics store in Flushing who came from Fujian Province more than a decade ago. “I feel the protesters should be protesting.”
But the conduct of the protesters themselves also drew criticism. “They’re full of it,” said Paul Tong, 87, who came to the United States in 1934 from Guangzhou.
“It’s propaganda from the human rights people that makes them do it,” said Mr. Tong, a World War II veteran who was on his way to the American Legion office on Canal Street. He noted that the Chinese government had built a railroad to the Tibetan plateau to improve economic conditions.
And then there are those who could not be more indifferent on international relations, be it in the realm of sports or sovereignty.
Philip Ang, 22, a mortgage consultant born in the United States to parents from Taiwan, said, “I’m not too big on Chinese people, not too big on Asia or the Olympics.”
When asked about Tibet and the Olympics, Mr. Ang, who was in Flushing, asked blankly, “What does Tibet have to do with it?”