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by RonaldDump 532 days ago
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?
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tuna74 532 days ago
The second best male player in the world* is as an ethnic Swede.

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

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bllguo 531 days ago
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
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JumpCrisscross 532 days ago
> 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.

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