Gu Ailing and Chen Wei are both from middle-class American families, and their parents have successfully educated them, but they have a difference in their cultural education.
On several occasions, a reporter asked Chen Wei if he could answer questions with Chinese, and he said that he Chinese badly. When asked about China, his answer was also typical of American thinking. This is typical of the cultural assimilation "Culture Assimilation". This means that the children of immigrants have completely abandoned the culture of their homeland and completely agree with the local culture of the country of immigration, such as the children of some Chinese immigrants, and even Chinese will not say. Perhaps Chen Wei's parents are not confident in their own culture, thinking that full integration into American society is the most important, and completely abandoning their own culture. When Chen Wei complained that Chinese was not enthusiastic about him as a Chinese, first of all, did he ever think that he answered the question about China and stood in the position of the Americans. Even if you have black hair and yellow skin, you have an American heart and don't know anything about Chinese culture. So why should Chinese like an American athlete with prejudices against China?
Let's talk about the value of his gold medal. Chen Wei is the 7th American athlete to win the title. So for the United States, it was just another figure skating gold medal. Did Chen Wei's gold medal improve the status of Asians in the United States? Just feb. 9, the New York Times published an article titled "Asians make up about 7 percent of the U.S. population, but the percentage of Asians is conspicuously overrepresented at all levels of ice rinks and competitions from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast." What does it mean that such an article that discriminates against Asians can be published in the mainstream media in the United States? Not only Chinese Americans, but also the entire Asian-American community are also discriminated against in the United States, and the discrimination against Asians in the United States cannot be solved by one or two gold medals. Chen Wei's gold medal is only his personal achievement, and it means little to other Chinese or Asians in the United States.
Gu Ailing has lived in both China and the United States since she was a child, and she knows a lot about American culture and Chinese culture. Judging from her usual videos, she knows a lot about Chinese culture. This is typical of cultural integration "Culture Integrition". This is the most ideal state of symbiosis between Chinese and Western cultures, under which the children of immigrants will not abandon the cultural tone and heritage of their own ethnicity, have a sense of national identity and pride, and at the same time can accept and adapt to the language, communication, learning, and working environment of the immigrant country, and attach importance to and maintain their relationship with others.
Gu Yan's cultural education of Gu Ailing is successful, so Gu Ailing has a sense of identity and pride in Chinese culture. Gu Ailin's gold medal is not only her first gold medal at the Olympic Games, but also China's first Olympic gold medal in the women's snow event, which gives the gold medal greater significance. She once said she wanted "the Winter Olympics in Beijing, where my mother was born, to have the opportunity to help inspire millions of young people." What a mindset and pattern.
Several other Chinese Canadian ice hockey players who have naturalized China, such as Ye Jinguang and Zheng Enlai, also have the same sense of cultural identity and national pride, they will definitely affect the attention of many Chinese young people to ice sports, and there will definitely be more Chinese young people active in the stage of the Winter Olympics in the near future.
These naturalized Chinese athletes, their parents are the implementation of cultural integration of education methods, this is the most ideal cultural education. These Chinese not only have a sense of identity and pride in their own ethnicity, but also enhance their self-confidence, which is also the key to success. These overseas Chinese not only won medals, but also set an example for Young Chinese people, which has contributed to the revitalization of national sports, which is more meaningful than the sense of achievement for individuals to receive honors. Therefore, the pattern of parents determines the child's vision and future height.
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