Suga ... but what's wrong with saying that Han Ying has more in common with Asian table tennis tradition, considering her upbringing than the European one, even though she is German now ... ?
If it only would have been worded that way. But most times the tone is rather different.
All I meant to say was Han Ying is a Chinese in a cultural sense. She might be a German national, but she prefers Chinese food and language over those of other cultures. She was born and raised in China. She lived in China for the majority of her life. I earnestly do not believe that just because Han Ying changed her nationality, she will suddenly stop speaking Chinese and stop eating Chinese food. Germany is her nationality, but culturally she will always be a Chinese.
How did racism get dragged in all this? All I did was trying to point out the difference between nationality and cultural identity. Chinese is not a race, it's a country of people and a culture.
By the amounts of Schnitzel, Bratwurst and Beer she enjoyed while she's been here she then has to be at least half German then? What about the Döner Kebabs? Did that make her turkish to a degree then? Or the Pizzas? I guess she must be also a bit Italian then....
See, where this leads to?
Many times these differences are brought up for putting ethnicity over nationality by very questionable motivations. In a fast changing world it would be helpful if people wouldn't relate nationality too much to ethnicity.
Instead of looking for differences it would be helpful if we rather look more for similarities instead.
That's basically all there is to it.
She has become a German with asian roots. She isn't either the one or the other, she is both. Ofc she enjoys her chinese culture as well as she enjoys taking part in European culture in Poland and Germany. Might be hard to understand for some but that's how it is.
...No one would give a dime about political correctness..
Actually a sad thing to say...
Han Ying is politically a German and ethnically(birth, origin) a Chinese. Nothing wrong with that.
Exactly. She isn't one or the other. She is both.
This whole PC crap is turning the Western countries into an allergic af society as a whole.
I would be careful making statements like these. These kind of narratives are often used by "Leave"-voters and "Trump-followers" and other far-right groups across the globe.
The term 'pc' has been very misused and misinterpreted in the close past. It originally stands for being empathetic, compassionate and respectful.
https://correspondentlive.com/9327/opinions/political-correctness-conveys-empathy/
Nothing else than treat others the same f*cking way how you like being treated yourself.
I know respect for others can only be expected and demanded from people that respect themselves first, while others claim it must be "earned".
But this whole kind of thinking needs to change if we start looking for 21st century problems and their solutions.
Only very selfish and egoistically thinking people will think that respect and empathy are bad things that will turn the western world into an "allergic af society" how you named it,
to people with at least a little social awareness skills it will make socializing and making friends or actually life in general become more easy.
Many experts agree that these so called 'soft-skills' will become much more relevant in the near future.
For decades, wait a second, no, for centuries or rather milleniae adulescents are being taught to become a**holes while growing up (or otherwise they won't survive in this cold world), but children are different and rather unspoilt and haven't developed this kind of thinking yet... like this little boy
What the world needs is not more old men's thinking but rather more childlike unspoiled empathy and luv.
And while we're at it regarding the overcrowdedness and overpopulation of your society, showing more respect to everyone could be very helpful for future generations and hopefully all today's rudeness and selfishness will be eradicated and not lead to chaos, pain and suffering.
But luckily not everyone is a backwards oriented insensitive 'Klutz' and is rather 'far-sighted' like Jack Ma for instance.
He said some things that show signs that there is still some hope left for your society or actually....
....actually all of humanity.
Sorry for OT, but this was somewhat relevant to me.
Now back to the finals. It's "captain" time.
Looking forward
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