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lyrics and music of "my Motherland. My Motherland" was called as "A Big River" (Chinese: 一条大河) is a song written for the Chinese movie Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956). the song was written for the movie about Korean War in 1950s Solo Great mountains, great rivers and an amazing place Every road is flat and wide When friends are here, there is fine wine But if the jackal comes What greets it is the hunting rifle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51YSljGbvg No one said Chinese hate American. As a matter of fact, if you have chance to visit China, you will find you will be more warmly welcomed by most of chinese (more than you get from most of countries around the world) Point here is: The Korean War is past, but we Chinese have right to honor our heors.

Point here is: The Korean War is past, but we Chinese have right to honor our heors.

#1 - I didn't say the Chinese people hate Americans. I said the current crop of losers running our government hate Americans.

#2 - That crop of government officials who hate the people they represent don't do ANYTHING without thinking through the political ramifications first. I'm sure they knew what the song was about. With Korean war vets still living amongst us, this is kind of a middle finger don't you think? It would be like inviting the Japanese PM over here and then having singers perform WW2 anti-Japanese songs.

#3 - All this said, in the Korean war the Chinese did TERRIBLE things to the Americans and the Koreans. Today China backs the North Korean government - the people in NK live with starvation and cruelty are facts of life. What kind of "heroes" do that to people? Or enable others to do that?

And if that offends you, imagine how I feel when a song referring to our heroes as jackyls only worthy of being shot is played at a state dinner by our leaders.