By: Zak

Zak — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:34:20 +0000

It isn’t just about basketball either. When Jet Li and Gong Li (Chinese actors) decided to obtain citizenship in Singapore because it was far less restrictive than China., there was a massive outcry against it.

By: P. Ami

P. Ami — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:15:57 +0000

There are elements to this story which I find funny, in the uncomfortable, “ha, ha” sort of way. The fact that our country is so corporately (financially) tied to an Autocratic country with such a high level of nationalistic tendency on all levels of the society, is disturbing and this Yao thing is the least sign of how easily people can differ in attitude. The NBA has bet a fair portion of it’s future on the continued growth in popularity of basketball in China (an lets just say that a diplomatic faux pa large enough would increase the popularity of the CBA in China at the expense of the NBA).
I would suggest that ending this post with the sentence “Well, it would be if it wasn’t so sad” expresses an opinion without providing the reader any reasoning for what is sad about such struggles. It might be nations, it might be states, it might be cities, tribes or individuals that struggle against each other and while some of the fall out is sad and sometimes tragic, there are many who argue that there are many elements to struggle which are beautiful. A mother struggles to push out her child in birth. Children struggle to perfect skills. Patients struggle to live. Success is often the result of those who struggle through many failures. So, I wonder how this episode of the China/Yao love affair is sad in itself. It seems to me to signify something greater which could become sad, but on it’s own it’s just cultural bs that would be self-evident to something like 1 billion people..

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