"Time Magazine" focuses on Gu Ailing: academic performance is too good but "discriminated against" by American classmates

This week, the US "Time Magazine" published an interview article about Gu Ailing, which improved two parts: 1 - Gu Ailing's female strength; 2 - Gu Ailing is plagued by anti-Asian prejudice in the United States, how do you deal with it?

Gu Ailing's feminine power

At the class speech in the 7th grade, Gu Ailing gave a speech at the time, she said: "Show the boys that girls are as strong as they are", and was selected as the annual voice of the Adidas Women's Empowerment Movement.

Representing girls to compete with boys has always been a requirement that Gu Ailing has given herself.

At the Freestyle Ski world championships in the first half of last year, Gu Ailing had a broken finger and a torn thumb ligament, and originally thought that she would be absent from the competition, but Gu Ailing miraculously won 2 gold medals and 1 bronze medal without holding a pole.

Even after the race, Gu Ailing said: "Honestly, I'm a little nervous about getting my poles back now because I'm used to skiing without poles. ”

At the end of 2021, in a World Cup in the United States, Gu Ailing chose to use a move that humans have never completed in the game in the third jump when deciding to win the championship. In an interview after the game, Gu Ailing explained the reason: "Boys are crazy to suffocate, I want to fight for girls to the end!" ”

It can be seen that winning the championship in the competition is not the whole goal of Gu Ailing, she wants to declare her strength to the world on behalf of girls.

On Chinese social media, the praise and admiration for Gu Ailing are increasing as the Winter Olympics approach. As Gu Ailing said: "Even a little inspiration will make this work very worthwhile." ”

Plagued by anti-Asian prejudice in the United States, too good to be "discriminated against"

The COVID-19 crisis in 2020 has exacerbated the anti-Asian wave in American society. In March last year, Gu Ailing said that she and her grandmother were eating at a restaurant in San Francisco, met extreme people, and quickly left the restaurant, which she said was her most frightening moment in the United States.

Gu Ailing has no less academic results than in the world of freestyle skiing, graduated from high school a year early, scored 1580 on the SAT test, and was admitted to Stanford University, where she wanted to study molecular genetics and international relations.

But in school, Gu Ailing also encountered prejudice from her classmates. Excellent academic performance, so that they often encounter "micro-attacks" from classmates, students believe that the reason why Asians study well, mainly due to strict family education and a domineering mother.

Gu Ailing said: "I basically don't pay attention to this statement, because I am a nerd. "I'm proud to be involved in academic research."

Time magazine wrote: All these (prejudices) will only make Gu Ailing more determined to complete the mission of breaking through obstacles. She hopes that when she arrives in Beijing, the world's focus will be on sports, hoping that sports will make the world more united and stronger.