What’s The Point Of Immigration If They’re Still In Love With Their Ex?
Olympian Eileen Gu received a hero’s welcome Saturday in her hometown of San Francisco. The 22-year-old served as grand marshal of the city’s Chinese New Year festival and parade.
Gu, a freestyle ski champion, has been competing for China since 2019 and won three Olympic medals for China at the 2026 Winter Olympics. (RELATED: Meet Eileen Gu, the Real Villain of the Winter Olympics)
Some Chinese Americans appear to have warmly adopted the coat.
“It doesn’t bother us at all,” David Ho, community organizer in San Francisco’s Chinatown. said to the San Francisco Standard, referring to Gu’s speech about loyalty.
“There are dozens of American athletes representing other countries, so what’s the problem with her?” asked San Francisco State University sociologist Russell Jeung, a fifth-generation Chinese American, to the San Francisco Standard. “It’s because she represents China and because she is so good. I think what we need to do is move beyond this exclusive allegiance to America into this sort of xenophobic patriotism.”
With compatriots like this, who needs enemies?
One would imagine that Jeung, being a fifth-generation Chinese American, would be fairly well assimilated. Instead, he seems to harbor sympathies for his family’s native country.
Foreigners who wish to become naturalized U.S. citizens must take the “Oath of Allegiance.”
STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT: Three-time Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu served as grand marshal of San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade, calling the honor “special” as she reflected on her participation in the celebration as a child.
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The oath begin“I solemnly swear that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or potentate, state or sovereignty of which or of which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”
Naturalized citizens must agree to “defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
In other words: we expect “exclusive allegiance to America” from those who immigrate to this country. Ideally, their children would share this spirit.
Furthermore, Jeung’s criticism might be better directed at China, which strictly prohibits dual nationality.
The Americans found a perfect point of comparison to Gu as Alysa Liu, the figure skater born and raised in the Bay Area. China also tried to recruit Liu to compete for them, but she and her father refused. (RELATED: US Olympian Alysa Liu Proves She’s a Fraud Too After Defending American Traitor Eileen Gu)
“It creates this dynamic of good immigrant/bad immigrant, or good minority/bad minority,” Jeung said of comparing the athletes. “This creates an us versus them dynamic that has led to great polarization and demonization of other immigrants in the United States.”
Yes, there is good immigrants and there are bad immigrants. It’s quite easy to land in the first category. You can start by showing a certain loyalty to the host country (or that of your family).
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