Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Any glory for Singapore championship in table tennis/ Foreign talent
Singapore won the Moscow championship for the World Team Table Tennis Championships for the very first time! However, not all people see this as a glory due to the representatives for Singapore. It was China players instead of Singapore players.
From my point of view, I feel both glory and not glory.
Glory as even though the table tennis team is made up of China players, as long as they play the game truthfully right from the bottom of their heart, winning or losing will still be our glory and we should acknowledge it.
After all, they have done their part for a country which they do not belong and the worst thing is that they are competing against their own country. Without them helping us to win, I am not sure whether we will even get to win a not. We should also not really criticize them as it is actually also the same for Singaporeans. Nowadays, many Singaporeans are also going abroad for further work, education, help in their competition and also to gain citizenship there. When Singaporeans do this, I am sure we will also want to be treated equally, be regarded as their people even though we are foreign talent in their countries. So why make it hard for them to live when they had to leave their own country and try their very best to play for Singapore and not to say that it is our country who invited them to play for us. Put yourselves into their shoes, can you imagine their feelings of taking Singapore flag in their own country?
Not glory as there is a feeling that if it was not for foreign talents, Singapore would not have been able to win any championship at all by Singapore born athletes. Since the players that win for Singapore are from China, the title somehow does not feel like it belongs to Singapore, instead it feels like it belonged to China. It also does feel like Singapore does not have any high expectations for Singapore teams and is depending on foreign talent.
In conclusion, I still think that it is somehow glory and somehow not, depending how people thinks. If we think it is glory, we should support foreign talents and give them our fullest support. If we think that it is not glory, Singaporeans should train hard on their sports so that they can get selected to play for the teams!
-Liangping
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