Posted on 02/10/2022 12:21:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Who would have thought that, just mere days later, a beautiful gold medal–winning 18-year-old elite Olympian would exhibit the exact disdain and arrogance highlighted in the article?
Eileen Gu was born in California to a Chinese mother and an American father. While domiciled, educated, and trained in the United States, Gu visited China annually to visit her mother's family who resided there.
In 2019, Gu suddenly decided to represent China instead of the United States. When pressed, Gu loftily explained that it was not fame and riches that inspired her switched allegiance, but that she wanted to use sports as a conduit for unity. She argues that she has a unique opportunity to "help inspire millions of young people where my mum was born ... to help promote the sport I love."
After Gu won a gold medal in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Freeski Big Air competition, her life was placed under a microscope. In addition to being an extraordinarily gifted athlete, Gu models, is a superstar in China with her picture plastered all over the country, speaks fluent Mandarin, and has endorsement deals with Tiffany's and Louis Vuitton, among others. Brainy as well, with an almost perfect SAT score, she has been accepted to study at Stanford University.
Many Americans have spurned Gu, thinking her hypocritical, ungrateful for the U.S. training that helped her become a superstar and a high-paid stooge for the communists. Gu's comments in response to the criticism have not helped her cause.
Beside her hackneyed response of just "living my best life," she sounded absolutely nasty.
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“But a US citizen must always identify him/herself as a US citizen when interacting with US authorities.”
True, but that did not help my former coworker when he sought help from U.S. officials in Italy. He is a dual U.S.-Italian citizen, and he had entered Italy on his Italian passport. I agree with kabar that the U.S. authorities should have tried to provide some assistance, but he said they declined. It may have been that Italian law enforcement rebuffed in advance any U.S. intervention. Just speculation on my part. The incident was ten or so years ago.
Just think of how often Mexican officials (and officials of other countries) are demanding "hey,Texas,you have no right to execute our citizen"...and Texas responds: "wanna bet?".
I agree, for serious offenses. But my experience with unruly college students in study-abroad programs who got into relatively minor trouble (drunk and disorderly, property damage) with local law enforcement is that they were able to get charges reduced or dropped if our people (the study-abroad staff) or, in a few cases, the local U.S. consulate got involved. One exception was drug offenses, however. Some of our students mistakenly thought that some European countries (France and Germany, for example) turned a blind eye to public drug use or trafficking. The best we could arrange for those who got caught was immediate expulsion in lieu of arrest.
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