The jealousy will make people go crazy

Hi youless! I am so sorry if you feel kinda hurt for some things being said about your country. We all have to remember that all countries have good and bad publicity. All of us love our countries and all of us have genuine concerns for one another regardless which country we came from. Maybe there would be a few who discriminate but please know that all of us commit mistakes, our government may not be the best in the whole world, but we still are loyal to our country anyway. I was hesitant in replying to your post because I don't want to be in the thick of things but as your friend I can't let you be on your own. There are good and bad people in each country and I won't deny that there are bad people in our country too and so with the other countries too worldwide. here in mylot, it is like the olympics too...we are all from different countries and we are trying to learn from each other and hopefully we will all be able to respect each other and express our opinions politely. I do not condone bad practices and business dealings of many countries including mine, however, we should be big enough to own our mistakes. I do believe there are a lot of good people in China as there are a lot of good people worldwide. i hope in time we will go beyond race and color. In time my friend, in time! And I hope I didn't hurt anyone by my opinion. I just wish we could all be friends trying to interact and understand each others' ways but not to the point of turning a blind eye. Just my thoughts dear friend. Take care and have a nice day!

You are a petrotic citizen of you country, keep it up China is actually growing rapidly no two way about it. China is like that giant tree that birds of all king peach and feed on. I wish i could afford to come to Beijing Olympics or better still come for some businesses in China. No matter how jealous they and to spoil the Beijing Olympics it will not work for them

I am here in America and I was excited about China getting The Olympics and I still am. I don't put politics and The Olympics together. Never did and never will.Back in the day, when Russia was The USSR, everyone was so upset that they were hosting the winter olympics. In fact the U.S. boycott the games. Me, I just wanted to see the best athletes compete.And I feel the same way today.I was excited that China got the Summer Games because the best gymists in the world are Chinese.So why not give them home gym advance and see what happens. But if there are ones who are Really upset, then they should stay home and let the rest of us who just want to play and see who wins regardless of politics come to China and have a great Olympics.

Hello dear youless. I have just searched your profile to find this sensitive topic. You are absolutely right that jealousy is the evil root of trying to ruin one's reputation by spreading around the ill-founded rumors. If we study more of the world history, it won't be difficult to find that when a country is developing at its best, to some extent, some others who think highly of themselves would always try to do something bad to stop it from getting improved to be a better and more fast-developing one. To boycott the Olympics is absolutely on the wrong side, as the Olympics Games belong to the world, not just to one country. It is a symbol of peace, a symbol of getting people of different countries together for fair competitions in different events. Think about those medias that are always trying to ruin China. What good have they done to the world? To help promote the world peace or to just stir trouble? Absolutely the latter. They have a bias against China that makes them politicize either the Olympics or the Tibet issue without getting to know the long history of Tibet belonging to China and the fact that the present Chinese government is always doing its best to help the prosperity of the autonomic region. They don't and never report what our government have been doing to help improve the living standard and expan and improve the transport infrastructure and such in Tibet. Like Premier Wen Jiabao said, "we are focused on the development of our country in many ways". We don't have enough time for those gossip media, which is so annoying without telling the truth about present China. Of course, ours is a developing country. There is still a long way for us to go, compared with the developed. But I have great confidence in our government and our country that one day we will be on top of the world. Our getting stronger and stronger is always based on a peaceful condition. China is a country with a large population as well as one with a long history. There are many things that wait to be improved though we still have many things to do for the better of country. To draw a conclusion, we have suffered a lot from the invasion of those imperialists since the middle of the nineteenth century till the first forty years of the twentieth century. It shows that a poor country is always bullied by strong ones. Our government is right in focusing on the development of economics and such. Only when we are rich and strong will we be able to stand firmly in the world with great respect. We love China as always.

I am not sure if it's jealousy. I live here in Canada and i am not lol. I don't know about other people though. It's just that the olympic games is a very good oppurtunity to show the other people the country is beautiful, high technology, and friendly. But it is also when the criteria will be judge and there is alot of influence. With the Tibet affair, not alot of people are having the same point of view. I think it affects the image of a country alot which could be positiv and negativ. But despite of the history between China and Tibet, and the pollution factor, I have nothing against the games in China.

Hi, youless! Good job, you have spoken out what we want to say. I support you. Whatever, China would be stronger and better day by day. I love China and wish we could host the Olympics successfully!

I think the world should leave china alone when it comes to olimpics-besides-there are problems with Tibet that other people dont simply know hence they may not have the right information to explain the Chinese policies here-but good sense of morality is all anyone desires to see-China and Tibet had better be talking to resolve their problems, violence won help-but please lets keep Tibet out of the olimpics!

I agree with you that some people can get very jealous over other progress but nothing to be worry about and just continue to support your country.

Hello youless!:-) I fully support China Olympics, youless! And, I don't like to see politics in it, especially when it is engineered. I am not saying that problem is not real, but the timing and how it is being conducted, which countries are supplying 'things' is politically motivated. There has always been and will always be politics involved, though! There can be no denying that China is rising, and very fast at that. Thus, opposition to anything of it from some powers who feel threatened is only natural. I am not giving my opinion about the issue but the international politics involved with it. There are issues in other places too but for those powers they are not as much politically beneficial to talk about as this one is. I do hope to see athletes competing from all over the world and would like to see this event as successful!

I have voiced (penned, rather) my support for the Olympics in another post here http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1483820.aspx, not because China is hosting it, but because the Olympics is a world spectacle in the sporting arena, the pinnacle of sports that brings all the world's best athletes together to compete in a friendly way. It is an event every sports loving person should look forward to. It is just so that China won the rights to host the coming one and not some other country, and it is certainly an honor for them to win the the IOC bid to host such a prestigious event. I just wish as I've said in my previous post that people will not link politics with sports. Even if they differ in their opinions about human rights issues, they should bring this issue up in other forums and platforms, and not try and derail the Olympics. By doing so, they are only out to serve their own agendas, but they do grave injustice to the Olympic movement and to the thousands of athletes whose only purposes are to compete at this world stage in the hope of bringing glory to their country.

First, my view of the world itself. There are many injustices happening in ever country of the world and I feel it is up to those people in that country to find a way to fix it. Not to have other countries come in and literally take over by any means necessary. Second, my view of the Olympics wherever they are held. The Olympics to me should bring a sense of unity and awareness of the greatness of people and cultures of the world. The Olympics is not the time nor place to be bringing the issues facing Tibet forward. I love your country and I too support the Beijing Olympics.

Okay so you want to divert our attention away from China and into Africa. What is China doing about Africa? What is China doing about terrorist? What is doing about human rights within their own country. When will the Chinese government allow people freedom of religion? When will the Chinese government stop torturing people? When will the Chinese government institute proper environmental controls instead of opening more coal burning generating electrical generating plants. In 1993 77% of all executions worldwide were carried out in China. And let us not forget about the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Olympics and the Chinese policies are 2 different issues. But if by shaming the Chinese government by boycotting the Olympics is what will get them to wake up then lets do it. Mind you I just say we should boycott everything made in China until the Chinese government wakes up and becomes responsible humans instead of the tyrants they are,

I agree with you. Go for it. Go support the olympics. I am proud for China!

hi youless, yeah... jealousy, can lead someone to craziness from being stupid to doing foolish things.. no need to reiterate for it could be incomplete and if to be completed, the possibilities will be endless which are all caused by jealousy.. i am warning everyone jealousy is a dangerous feelings... one must be strong enough to use it positively or sustain it... thus, it must be talked bout asap and not to be kept secretly... think twice, digerati

I suppport the Beijing Olympics too.. I dont really like being involved in politics but whatever it is, I hope everything will get along well.. I saw on TV the preaparation and everything that china have done for this Olympic and I really wish I could afford to go there and feel the excitement directly.. But anyway, since I can afford it, I'll just watch it from TV and still i will support the Beijing Olympic..