In a way, I feel like it is still somewhat western worshipping because besides her name/speaking mandarin, she seems mostly western.. ie lifestyle, appearance , etc. It seems like they are promoting her more than the other males that medaled.
China has changed.
I did not realize that, because I haven't been there for a while, so the change was subtle but permanent now.
I only realized that when I happen to watch some video, that had a young American blonde, in Beijing, during the pandemic, do a news clip for the Chinese television news.
She got into a cab. Spoke in English to the viewer. Spoke in Chinese to the cab driver. Went to the mall. Explained what it was like. She was smiling and appeared to be happy.
It was too normal it seemed. Just the norm for her.
It only hit me later.
I could not tell if that was China or America. The young blonde American woman, fit right in. If the audio was off, there was no way we could tell.
The younger generations of today, do not remember what China was like, because they do not know.
Foreigners in the old days, they were foreigners, they stuck out. Some of them would look scared. They would walk the streets totally frighten. That was hilarious! But those days are gone.
Guk Oi Ling fits in anywhere she wants to be, whether with her ancestors homeland or adapted land.
Does she come across as a confident young American woman? Or does she appear to be more of the strong Chinese woman? She tells people to go cry about it, so it seems to me she is more of the latter. LOL.
That is why I would say she is more Chinese than American. Today is it all about being a snowflake. That's what she thinks of snowflakes. That is my opinion. China is not a nation of snowflakes.
Also, she said in the press in an interview, that if someone does not like something, that is their problem, and not my problem. That is too much of being a hardline Chinese mentality.
From that, she definitely the strong Chinese woman type of person.
