[dustyventure]

I think the Olympics in particular are mostly supposed to be a less violent outlet for nationalism, but I think we learned from the Anger Management craze that safe outlets lead to a normalization and more of the original problem.

[RonaldDump]

It's an absolutely awful outlet for "nationalism" in a post-national diversified world.

Table tennis, for example, is basically a bunch of Chinese people battling it out for gold for their host country. Am I supposed to root for the Chinese-Australians as if they're any more representative of me than the Chinese-Canadians?

[tuna74]

The second best male player in the world* is as an ethnic Swede.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls_M%C3%B6reg%C3%A5rdh

[bllguo]

no serious fan of the sport would agree. not even truls would consider him to be the 2nd best in the world. but yes, he did have an amazing run to the silver

[JumpCrisscross]

> Am I supposed to root for the Chinese-Australians as if they're any more representative of me than the Chinese-Canadians?

It's particularly damning that you picked two countries with almost entirely modern colonial populations.