In the past two days, the news of Gu Ailing's victory has dominated the headlines.
Gu Ailing won the championship
Gu Ailing won the Women's Freestyle Skiing Grand Jump championship at the Winter Olympics, the first time a Chinese athlete has won a gold medal in the event.
About Gu Ailing's growth experience, it has also been talked about by various media, proper, people's children. Countless parents have also set her as a new example for their children.
The opinions of netizens in China and the United States on the Internet are also very different. On the Chinese side, all kinds of praise and praise are overwhelming, but everyone's opinions are basically the same, that is, Gu Ailing's achievements and identities are what everyone likes to see and like very much.
On the United States side, because Gu Ailing represented the Chinese team in the competition and achieved very good results, so calling her a traitor, negative remarks of treason are also everywhere, and the sour grape psychology can be described as vividly displayed.
Gu Ailing's phenomenon makes people wonder why the world has changed so much in just a few years.
Gu Ailing and ice piers
In the past, it was difficult to imagine that a Chinese-born child in the United States would abandon his American identity and return to China, actively choosing Chinese nationality.
In particular, people like Gu Ailing, who have very good conditions in their own right, have given up their American identity and chosen Their Chinese identity, which is an act that is difficult to understand with our past vision.
However, the occurrence and development of things always has a context to follow, when Gu Ailing, who was born in the United States, when they make this major choice in life, it also represents their views and choices about the future world.
For more than half a century, the United States has been harvesting the world's top talents, and the United States has only been the world's number one for so long. Now some people have given up their American identity and chosen to represent another country. This is just a microcosm, in addition to the sports world, there may be more people in the future to choose the Chinese identity.
The emergence of the Gu Ailing phenomenon is, to some extent, a real demonstration of the contrast and change in the strength of the two major powers in China and the United States.
Gu Ailing was interviewed
As the old saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. When Gu Ailing made this choice, I believe that not only herself but also her mother, she was also optimistic about China's future development, and she would have more room and prospects for development in China.
In addition to Gu Ailing, naturalized athletes are not uncommon in various events of the Winter Olympics, both Chinese and non-Chinese.
For example, Zhu Yi (figure skater, national championship champion) is Chinese-American and later joined the Chinese nationality.
But what is surprising is that at this Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams have used a large number of naturalized players. There are 25 members on the men's ice hockey team, 15 naturalized players, 23 members in the women's team, and 13 naturalized players.
Another characteristic of this group of naturalized players is that the vast majority of them have Chinese ancestry. Among these naturalized team members, 16 are from Canada, and 14 of them are Chinese Canadian players!
They are: Brandon Yip, Tyler Wong, Spencer Foo, Parker Foo, Lukas Lockhart, Ethan Werek, Zach Yuen, Enlai Zheng, ParisO'Brien, Jessica Wong, Leah Lum, Taylor Lum, Jason Fram, Kimberly Newell.
Are you surprised to see here, how can there be so many Chinese returning to China?
I believe that everyone will have a common understanding and judgment.
If it is said that the return of top athletes such as Gu Ailing to China is only a rare corner, while the return of more and more young generations who identify with Chinese identity to China, this will have a non-negligible impact and change on the overall situation of the future world.
As soon as we know the autumn, we can clearly see from the above phenomena that in today's world, this major change that has not occurred in a hundred years, the new era is becoming clearer and clearer.
A leaf knows autumn
That is, China's rise is unstoppable, and in the foreseeable future, I believe we will see more outstanding young talents return to China, exert their own energy in all walks of life in China, and show the choice and judgment of a new generation of young people in the world for the future.