'If people don't like me, that's their loss.' Eileen Gu responds to haters and her dual heritage

Eileen Gu, Women"s skiing big air gold medallist: Here"s the thing, I"m not trying to keep anyone happy. I"m an 18-year-old girl out here living my best life. I"m having a great time. It doesn"t really matter if other people are happy or not, because I feel as though I am doing my best, I am enjoying the entire process and I"m using my voice to create as much positive change as I can for the voices who will listen to me, in an area that is personal and relevant to myself.\n And so if other people don"t really believe that that"s where I"m coming from then that just reflects that they do not have the empathy to empathies with a good heart, perhaps because they don"t share the same kind of morals that I do. And in that sense I am not going to waste my time trying to placate people who are one, uneducated, and two, probably are never going to experience the kind of joy and gratitude and just love that I have the great fortune to experience on a daily basis. So yeah, if people don"t believe me and if people don"t like me then, that"s their loss. They"re never going to win the Olympics. I definitely feel as though I am just as American as I am Chinese. I am American when I am in the US, and I am Chinese when I am in China. And I"ve been very outspoken about my gratitude to both the US and China for making me the person who I am. I don"t feel as though I"m, taking advantage of one or the other, because both have actually been incredibly supportive of me and continue to be supportive of me, because they understand that my mission is to use sport as a force for unity, to use it as a form to foster interconnection between countries and not use it as a divisive force. So that benefits everyone and if you disagree with that then I feel like that"s someone else"s problem.\n __________________ Powered by Shanghai Media Group, ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality content for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. Nobody knows Shanghai better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What"s up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MNjpE4hspSVry8dR555getN ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MMVTWr-zIXjsS4hhSQPmyes ■ What Chinese people"s lives are like during the post COVID-19 period https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MPrPTmIirpfgETu6VKVESXe ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MO9ua_nSK6slRPdUl-ovjRe ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MP0vJDSw23_1MCPJhAfGbiG ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MOreRu2AbZ3ziIUyCcdBLwX __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you!


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