Comments on: China’s First Male Tennis Player In A Major In 54 Years, Wu Di, Amazed “Foreigners” Cheered Him In Australia

By: King Tubby

King Tubby — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:01:43 +0000

Forget this tosser. Zheng Jie was fucking brilliant.

It was a great game to watch.

By: terroir

terroir — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:17:24 +0000

Chinese do watch and support the National Men’s Football team – they just hate themselves and shower for an hour afterwards.

By: terroir

terroir — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:13:07 +0000

C’mon buddy, don’t be a downer.

Ang Lee won accolades for that movie about the jumping and the crouching (really because it won an Oscar, not because it appealed to Chinese), but then disappeared off the map for the movie about not being able to quit (though he won an Oscar for it, the anti- work ethic bothered a lot of people).

It’s a swingin door, and Chinese home-boys in the motherland will just see whatevs they want to see. Meanwhile, you can be happy for some Chinese guy because he did a good job, and not have an reaction against what he may symbolize to somebody else.

By: Total Eclipse of the Twat

Total Eclipse of the Twat — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:37:08 +0000

There are like 1.3 billion foreigners in China, it’s insane.

By: SeaHorse

SeaHorse — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:16:00 +0000

D’awwww.

But I’d like to note that Wu Di was playing against a Croate. Assuming most of the audience is Australian, you have to cheer for someone. And at the risk of sounding disloyal to my fellow North Americans and our friends in China, Australians in general are more enthusiastic about tennis people in my biased experience. If we were talking about basketball, I mean most Chinese people I know tend to root for the Lakers in the NBA despite not being from Los Angeles.

Also I want to point out there are teams Chinese people don’t support in general despite being the national team. The Chinese Olympic Soccer (Football) team. Even other Chinese athletes (even the gymnasts) made fun of them.

By: PD

PD — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:13:28 +0000

The Chinese concept of “foreigner” is based on skin colour. It can’t cope with such categories as China-born American; it assumes so-called ABCs are “really” Chinese; and it contradicts itself when ethnic minorities go abroad.

By: MAC

MAC — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:09:22 +0000

It’s sad, but I can basically no longer be happy for any Chinese person to be successful in anything on the international stage because I know that back home, legions of young men are crowing about how they’ve won glory for the motherland.

By: name

name — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:42:44 +0000

I had many conversation with _young_ Chinese in which these assumptions emerge with a certain regularity. Of course I do not mean to generalise. But this funny notions must come from somewhere, perhaps from education, just like “our” notions of merit, virtue and character.

By: Ur a retarded squirrel

Ur a retarded squirrel — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:19:31 +0000

Responding to the previous comment @name, that’s retarded! Lol. I support those who are worthy of support, have virtue and character which mainland Chinese frequently do not

By: name

name — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:54:41 +0000

China, Cultural competence 101, CE 2013 ca.:

- a good chinese always supports another chinese, no matter whether worthy or not; a bad chinese supports nobody, is hanjian; a chinese who does not support another chinese is hanjian, no matter how bad the latter is;
- foreigners hate the chinese, hope they fail; so you can count only on your people;
- the category of foreigner does not depend on where you are, but on how they look; you are always chinese, never the foreigner (except for them); they are always laowai.