Why would we care?Eileen Gu is the American skier who decided to represent China. She just won a gold and silver medals at the 2022 Olympics. How good is her Chinese? Can someone tell? Here is a video.
Eileen Gu is the American skier who decided to represent China. She just won a gold and silver medals at the 2022 Olympics. How good is her Chinese? Can someone tell? Here is a video.
Very good. Indistinguishable from a native speaker. It’s pretty impressive considering she was born and raised in the U.S. That is not common at all with Chinese Americans. Many cannot speak Chinese fluently or if they do, speak it with an accent or lack the vocabulary.
Well she was born and raised here so of course her English is excellent. It’s the ability to speak Chinese so well that is surprising.Her English is excellent, also, and because of her mixed-race ancestry she is model material in both cultures.
Well she was born and raised here so of course her English is excellent. It’s the ability to speak Chinese so well that is surprising.
Gu benefited from growing up in a free country, and chose to represent a government which runs massive prison camps for ethnic minorities.
You obviously don't know many 2nd generation immigrants.She was raised by her mother and grandmother and spent some time every year in China with relatives. I don't see any reason to be surprised.
We've seen the pictures. Those are cell blocks.The existence of massiave prison camps have already been debunked a long time ago. Many youtubers have been to Xinjiang and found no massive prison camps. They do run job training camps. I think the job training camps make more sense. What better way to control the population than to give them jobs and a mortgage so they will work till they are 65? See Singapore as an example. Where every family holds a 30 year mortgage and every bread earner is too afraid to lose his job for fear of not being able to make his next mortgage payment.
Of course, like vaccine efficacy, some people will never change their mind no matter what the evidence. So I do not expect you to change your mind.
Why would we care?
Gu benefited from growing up in a free country, and chose to represent a government which runs massive prison camps for ethnic minorities.
She sold out. After all, who cares about forced sterilizations as long as the endorsements are profitable, right?
actually, I’m one of those nutcases who pays twice as much so he can get things made in a democratic country.You grew up in a free country, yet virtually everything you buy was made in China and other repressive regimes because you can save a few bucks that way.
We've seen the pictures. Those are cell blocks.
actually, I’m one of those nutcases who pays twice as much so he can get things made in a democratic country.
It is not easy to do for a lot of products.
If you think I buy girl’s athletic equipment based on anything other than fit and injury risk, you’re nuts. My own shoes are made in Spain. I’m old enough to remember Franco, so cleats aren’t an issue.Talk is cheap. We both know that it b.s. Who makes your daughter's cleats, big guy? When you mistook that your Oakley blades were "designed" in the U.S. to mean they were made here instead of China, did you call someone to gloat on your Chinese-made iPhone or your Vietnamese Samsung Galaxy, both countries where only the Communist Party is allowed to rule?
If you think I buy girl’s athletic equipment based on anything other than fit and injury risk, you’re nuts. My own shoes are made in Spain. I’m old enough to remember Franco, so cleats aren’t an issue.
Sounds like you’ve tried to avoid items made in China/Burma/Vietnam. Not easy, is it?
If you think I buy girl’s athletic equipment based on anything other than fit and injury risk, you’re nuts. My own shoes are made in Spain. I’m old enough to remember Franco, so cleats aren’t an issue.
Sounds like you’ve tried to avoid items made in China/Burma/Vietnam. Not easy, is it?
Yeah, yeah. eotl, the insult machine.Gosh, how convenient that you don't actually buy anything of substance that is made in the U.S., but instead just make excuses to buy crap made in repressive regimes. Your kid has never even tried on a pair of American cleats, so you have no idea what the fit is or the injury risk. You obviously don't have a Librem 5 phone, presumably because they aren't good enough either. You aren't going around paying twice as much for things because they're made in democratic nations, you just use the fact that you once bought a pair of shoes made in Spain to rationalize why you don't really buy anything American made at all other than probably some Bud Light. You're worse than Gu. You can't even point to something you own that was made in the U.S. and, no, buying a pair of shoes from Spain does not make you an American patriot.