Video: Olympics Gold Medalist Ailing Gu response to news media with confidence and determination 奧運金牌得主谷愛凌以信心和決心回應新聞媒體 Listen to Ailing Gu – this 18 years old put many adults to shame! 聽谷愛凌的話 – 這個18歲讓很多大人汗顏！
Gu Ailing, Women’s skiing big air gold medallist:
“Here’s the thing, I’m not trying to keep anyone happy. I’m an 18-year-old girl out here living my best life. I’m having a great time. It doesn’t really matter if other people are happy or not, because I feel as though I am doing my best, I am enjoying the entire process and I’m using my voice to create as much positive change as I can for the voices who will listen to me, in an area that is personal and relevant to myself.”
“And so if other people don’t really believe that that’s where I’m coming from then that just reflects that they do not have the empathy to empathize with a good heart, perhaps because they don’t share the same kind of morals that I do.And in that sense I am not going to waste my time trying to placate people who are one, uneducated, and two, probably are never going to experience the kind of joy and gratitude and just love that I have the great fortune to experience on a daily basis. So yeah, if people don’t believe me and if people don’t like me then, that’s their loss. They’re never going to win the Olympics.”
“I definitely feel as though I am just as American as I am Chinese. I am American when I am in the US, and I am Chinese when I am in China. And I’ve been very outspoken about my gratitude to both the US and China for making me the person who I am. I don’t feel as though I’m, taking advantage of one or the other, because both have actually been incredibly supportive of me and continue to be supportive of me, because they understand that my mission is to use sport as a force for unity, to use it as a form to foster interconnection between countries and not use it as a divisive force. So that benefits everyone and if you disagree with that then I feel like that’s someone else’s problem.”
Vicious article by USA TODAY attacks Eileen Gu as a hypocrite and propagandist, and a marketing machine whose ideals are “aspirational pabulum”. After giving her some praise for her unmistakable accomplishments, it then claims that others will “scrutinize her words, call her a traitor, lob racist insults, tell her to stay in China and root for her to fail. She will almost certainly be culture war fodder on Fox News for days, but she will not find safe harbor on either the political left or right. The consequences of the choice she made in 2019, which nobody outside this niche sport would have known or cared about, will be evident in ways that even a young woman as intelligent and self-aware as Gu may not fully understand”,
They are stoking the hatred and cynicism against her that they say she will have to live with.
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-eileen-gus-life-gets-104316239.htm
ln her native country, Gu was going to be a star for a week or two if she won a gold medal. With her model looks, her fluency in Mandarin and her ability to compel millions of Chinese viewers to care about the Olympics, there was no limit to the magnitude of what she could become or, perhaps more to the point, what products she could sell.
And she is everywhere here, appearing in ad campaigns for a gamut of companies ranging from the Bank of China to Louis Vuitton. She is also rehearsed and smart, a marketing machine who has beenprogrammed to frame her choice as an opportunity to inspire winter sports passion in China while saying nothing that would offend the Chinese Communist Party.
But Gu is also going to have to learn to live in a new world of cynicism. When she says she’s careful about the brands she chooses to work with, that she wants them to “inspire positive social change” and “care about women in society” while aligning with China, it’s impossible to avoid the hypocrisy. When Gu sidesteps a question about Peng Shuai’s attendance Tuesday by saying she’s “grateful that she’s happy and healthy and out here doing her thing again,” it’s just more propaganda.
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