More Chinese than ever

These days with the Olympics in full action, I found myself cheering for the Chinese National Team and Hong Kong SAR Team more than the Canadian Team. Perhaps it's because I have been watching the coverage of these teams by the local stations instead of the Canadian team. Frankly, I would cheer for all of them.

There is a sense of national pride in the air. Hong Kong people has never been a patriotic bunch. We are brainwashed to be so by the British to avoid riots against colonization . The Chinese are now very careful not to do too much of national unity education, since we are not that receptive to it.

The Olympics brings the whole country and all of Chinese around the world together in a positive way. National pride is high. Despite so called "insider reports" of the training of the athletes by the western media, the support for them doesn't change. Really, how else can you achieve great and consistent results without plain ol' hard work? It's not much of a secret within the athlete community.

Another interesting note from a Globalization perspective: A significant amount of the athletes and coaches are from similar origin, but representing different countries. The best athletes from one country would because citizen of another. With no limits on the switching of citizenships, are we still keeping with Olympic spirits?