This was the headline in the sports section of a Singapore newspaper yesterday.
A westerner in an individual-oriented society would have a hard time understanding the Chinese patriotism and national sports fervor growing around the Beijing Olympic Games.
Chinese see this as their chance to show the world how developed they are, and take their rightful place in the top echelons of world powers.
"For Chinese athletes to get exceptional results at the Beijing Olympics is to fulfill the demands of the people for higher achievements in bringing glory to the nation," Sports MinisterLiu Ping said.
Don't think that Chinese are all dissidents because they don't enjoy many western freedoms and know that there is much corruption in their government. Chinese LOVE their country and the leaders are very clever at using things like sports and the Olympics to unify people, as they also do in other ways such as anti-Japanese and anti-western propaganda.
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