Chinese fans are overwhelmed with pride in this Rockes team

Bring out the Red Bull!

330 am!

Yikes!

 

GO ROX! CLUTCHCITY here in Hong Kong!

Will be up at 330am!

 

Good thing I dont live in China id be passed out drunk by 3:30am

 

Thanks for the update. It's nice to what the fans overseas think about the Rockets.

 

Thank you so much for writing this post.


The human brain is wired to separate, group, and classify things and people. War, racism, murder and other atrocities are reconciled with our sense of justice, value for human life, and empathy only when we can de-humanize our target as the "other" and without the human qualities that we have - e.g. fundamentalist america hating muslims, lovably ignorant sambo slave, manifest destined noble yet savage native americans or just the nameless faceless hordes of evil doers we see in movies.

I like this thread because underlying the saga of Yao Ming and the Rockets is the jostling of power between China and the US. Even barring a direct conflict between the two nations, the policies and thinking of the US is often informed by the image we have about China as the "other" - hordes of commies, all poor mindless worker bees, culturally strange - at worst inferior at best "exotic."

But this thread really smashes that separation and shows the common human element - that Chinese are literally feeling exactly the same thing that we are, that we are really both human, both exuberant and at times totally irrational and crazed rockets fans, and that we share a lot more than we know. Its a small bridge between cultures and people, but its a significant one.

In closing;


ROCKETS in 7, baby!

 

I appreciated your post. well done

 

thanks for the update great post
go rockets

 

You said the best! Thumbs up! It's all about Rockets these days among my Chinese friends!

GO ROCKETS GO!

 

330 am is either really early or really late. That shows your commitment to the team.

The Rockets can make the whole world proud by beating the Lakers in game 7.

Go Rockets.

 

I wonder what the worldwide TV ratings will be if there are a lot of dedicated Chinese Rockets fans stay up to watch Game 7......

 

Don't forget about Argentine, Spain, and all the other countries tuning in... It must be HUGE!

 

One thing most of us might miss the realization of, is that you probably could not ask for a better scenario for getting more Chinese fans interested in the NBA. You've got the two most popular teams in China, LA and Houston for different reasons, running up each other in a grudge match that has gone the limit.

We know that game 6 had the highest ESPN ratings for an NBA game ever, but what about international ratings? David Stern must be high as a kite.

 

I was actually wondering how China felt about the Rockets without Yao Ming playing. Thanks for sharing, goes to show it doesn't matter where you are from to be a great Rocket fan.

 

Well thanks for considering us humans! lol

Funny how you say Americans think of the Chinese as "culturally strange" when you've got all the weird ***** going on in your country. I mean I could hear Paris Hilton turning in her grave.. Wait, what? She's still alive?

But it's all cool man. I'm sure a lot of us remember that film the Year of the Yao in which Yao said he wanted to be a bridge between these two great nations and what better way to link us together than the team giving a heart-warming, blood-boiling performance on the basketball court?

GO ROCKETS!!!! 火箭加油！！！

 

Great insight post. That is why I think yao is pretty damn special figure for both countries, who has ordinary American have a shot at learning about us Chinese and china from other aspects instead of "mainstream media".