Not only crazy parent coaches in China. Have you ever been to kids baseball or hocket practice in Canada or the USA.
Ditto for gymnastics and ballet in parts of the USA. And that kind of craziness was going on when I was growing up in the '70s. Little girls, stage moms, sequins, makeup, and live performances are a toxic mix.
The article says: "With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sport is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country."
I live in Brooklyn, NY's Chinatown and oddly, it seems to me at least, every Chinese American I've brought up the Bejing Olympics with doesn't seem to give a hoot about it. The only things they are obsessed with as far as I can tell are working and gambling.
I live in a town with a large univerisyt. There are many chinese who swim where I do. I'm really amazed at how drive many of the parents aare to get their kids to swim. They scream and order the kids around the lanes & almsot get to the point where they hit them. It is really amazing. always thought the parent is ussually inthe water with the kid swimmign.
One guy I hate to have him come into my lane because he gets intot he lane without telling me & thn his daughter gets inthe lane. They swim down the center and act like I'm the one intheir way. I bring it up to them that at least they should tell me when they enter the lane or share it. the fahter acts as if he can't speak English but somehow he is a professor at the Univerisyt. I pity his students.
Thursday, a mother was standing at the edge of the pool screaming at her son (probably 6 to 8 yrs old). she had a stop watch and he wasn't going fast enough for her.
I was a Chicnese history major in college. I took some Chinese. I think she was calling the child a donkey clown.
Godwin's Law, manifest.What???? You mean the incompetent use of force by a police officer isn’t on par with Nazi atrocities?
And speaking of use of force; please note this is a “swimming related thread” either return to swimming related conversations or else…
Uh. I do what cops tell me to do. Appeared she ignored direction, totally resisted, and bit the guy. A human bite can be the most dangerous of all bites. Police put their lives on the line each day, and they don't know what kind of drug addicts and criminals they could be dealing with. Then, consider what they don't get paid. Maybe she'll follow directions next time.
Granted this was a very odd thing...but some of the nicest people I have ever met are from China.
Frankly speaking, I found this statement was quite offensive, which sort of implied all the Chinese or the majority of the Chinese were bad, or were not nice, or were supposed to be not nice. But I might get you wrong since English is not my native language.
Frankly speaking, I found this statement was quite offensive, which sort of implied all the Chinese or the majority of the Chinese were bad, or were not nice, or were supposed to be not nice. But I might get you wrong since English is not my native language.
Quite agree. It was a thoughtless and condescending statement to make. However, (and I am sure Quicksilver is quite capable of speaking for herself/himself) I am guessing no harm was meant here.
By the way....I know some nice Americans, too...:D
Syd
