She did it!

I’m happy for her, and I bet many a Mainlander is crazy for her now.  Nontheless, the brilliant feat she achieved mainly belongs to her, not to her fellow countrymen, nor to China, for she is a professional athlete, playing for money and her own stature in tennis. Have you ever seen President Hu or Premier Wen sending congratulatory telex to any Chinese champion? Never, but they would send one to a successful national achievement like space project, so the same way the presidents of the United States did. But I dare to say President Ma would, even make a call by himself, if there were a Taiwan athlete ever winning a world champion.

The stupid media here easily bestows "The pride of Taiwan"(台灣之光) upon anyone who can make known of Taiwan, in any way. So anyone who is famous enough to be on news agency, papers, TV, or even internet, and let readers know that he or she is from Taiwan, will be given that title, even his or her achievement hardly deserving such a prominence, e.g. not-so-outstanding MLB pitchers, a quarter-finalist in a Grand Slam etc.  Maybe I’m a little bit sarcastic, or maybe Taiwan has been desperately hankering for international publicity.  Yes, the hunger about publicity internationally makes people in the Island crazy, engendering a morbid mindset towards the reality.

Please don’t create "The pride of Taiwan" any longer, especially for the professional athletes. The more "prides" we have, the more likely we are going to be disappointed.

草成於6/4/10李娜奪冠之夜