Canadian born Chinese Olympic Team gollie not allowed to speak English

All of Scandinavia in the mid 20th century was basically socialist. It went very well, with a much healthier and happier society that the U.S. or U.K.

1. Socialism is NOT the same as communism.

2. Scandinavia has never been socialist.

1. The modern Olympics were founded by the US, the UK, and France, so the official languages of every Olympics are the host nation's, English, and French. Ergo, no media has reason to exclude English at an Olympic press conference.

2. “Chinese” is terribly vague. Modern China has made Mandarin the official language, and any others (Cantonese, Wu, Gan, Hakka, etc.) are second-class, and non-Chinese languages (e.g., Mongolian and Uyghur) are actively being driven to extinction. Similarly, Han Chinese people get preferential treatment in China, including as separate classrooms from other ethnicities.

3. China uses rape as a form of torture.

and you actually think china is commuist? theyre an authoritarian oligarchy. Norway is Democratic/Socialist, the system of Gov and economic practices are not that same. Nazi Germany was Facism/capitalism, does that mean that all capitalist counties are facist? I'm simply pointing out that that wrong term was used and that a certain group of people (uneducated) use it as a catchall to descibe something theyr afraid of and couldn't descibe accurately if asked. And im guessing that your another hypocritical righties that hates communism or socialism but has no problem with medicare or social security

Say what? I've been to Quebec several times and people most definitely spoke to me in English. If I were to ask a local a question in English or order food in English they would respond to me in English.

It's funny to see people in this thread defending such extreme control by the Chinese Government over individuals freedoms.

You know nothing about me or what I know about other countries and cultures. You made a simplistic knee jerk response based on your assumptions from a post I made here. Who is the closed minded simpleton here? You inject race into a post I made about Government control and repression of individuals.

Then you are lieing about having been to Quebec. Because you would know what a Quebecois is otherwise.

That's because you are casually being racist against the Chinese for having a requirement to speak Chinese at the Olympics held by the Chinese in front of an audiences of billions of Chinese from a Chinese member on the Chinese team on Chinese soil. And yet you think you are entitled to require the Chinese to speak English because you are so narrow minded that you don't know any Chinese.

Not lying. People spoke to me in English. I didn't see anyone get arrested for it. Lol!

Your handle and your emphasis on race sure makes you look like the racist here.

I would expect the them to speak any of the Chinese languages there, but if an English speaking reporter asks a bilingual English speaker a question in English and the authorities prohibit a response in English, that is excessive and repressive.

Look at press conferences at other sporting events. Bilingual athletes give responses in the language asked, if they speak that language. Bilingual English and Spanish speaking baseball and soccer players come to mind, and French and English speaking Canadian NHL players come to mind. That's how it's done in the free world.

It's ok to criticize overly strict governments, that certainly doesn't make someone racist. Thinking otherwise is absurd.

Why are you so racist against the Chinese? You think Biden would respond to a question in Chinese at the LA Olympics? The Olympics right now are in China with billions of Chinese speaking people watching, it is patently absurd for you to require them to speak English to whitewash them. Why don't you just get a translator that speaks Chinese if you want to ask a question to a Chinese member of the Chinese team that is playing in China in a Chinese stadium? Let me guess, the only Chinese speakers you know of are at your local Chinese restaurant where you do your weekly order of authentic Chinese gung pow chicken.

Ok. I see you are clearly just trolling. Either that or you are incredible stupid and aren't comprehending the situation and what others here are saying about it. I try not to resort to insults, but you really aren't comprehending, so either it's an act or you really are that dumb. With that, I'll keep the following responses really simple.

1. Biden doesn't speak Chinese, so I wouldn't expect him to answer questions in Chinese.

2. No one here is demanding that the Chinese speak English at games. We are criticizing Chinese authorities for prohibiting an athlete who is bilingual from responding to questions in both of the languages that she knows.

You can stop your fake race baiting pretending to be a social justice warrior troll game you're doing here.

False and false.

This should be funny: explain the "difference" between the two, if you actually can.

Trolling? I think you are being extremely racist against the Chinese.

You don't expect Biden to answer Chinese questions and yet you expect the Chinese to bend over for you and force them to speak a white language (English) at the Olympics where there are billions of Chinese speakers watching.

The Olympics are not a Chinese event. They're simply being held in China this time because China wanted to hold them. The Olympics are the biggest INTERNATIONAL event in the world. There are far more non-Chinese speakers than Chinese speakers watching.

If a reporter asks an athlete a question in English, and the athlete's native language is English -- as in this case, because she was born and raised in Canada -- the athlete should be allowed to answer the question in English.

That's what would happen in a normal, non-authoritarian country. That's what would happen at the United Nations. That's why interpreters are present.

And don't bother making any idiotic assumptions about my linguistic abilities. I've been a professional translator of another northeast Asian language for 28 years.

Now run along and play the little social just warrior someplace else.

Get out of your white delusion. These Olympics are absolutely a Chinese event. The Chinese paid for all of it. America paid none. And yet here your are an American demanding the Chinese speak English inside a Chinese paid and built stadium from a Chinese team member on the China team. What kind of pretentious prune are you?

If an English reporter doesn't know any Chinese at the Olympics paid for and hosted by China, that reporter is unqualified and should be fired.

There's that naivety shining through again... ALL communists governments are authoritarian oligarchies.

The nazis were authoritarian oligarchs. The national SOCIALIST party was not capitalist. Hitler said, "Capitalism and Bolshevism are two sides of the same international Jewish coin."

You claim to be "educated" and yet you have a 10th grader's grasp of history.

Democratic socialism is NOT socialism. Socialism means the state owns the means of production. This is not the case in single nordic country.

Social security and medicare are a complete disaster. As with all things liberal they sound good in the classroom and then make the problem they're supposed to fix worse.

lol...

The Scandinavians think they're capitalists. You should hop on a plane and head over and explain it all to them.

If only Hitler and Stalin understood economics as well as you we could have avoided World War 2 altogether.