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07-31-2012, 08:51 AM
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No specific other country, just different athletes in different competitions like Phelps and Bolt.
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The underdogs.

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Canada(home) and China.

China especially since so many people in the U.S. are openly racist or have hatred against Asians. I'm like, 'what the heck, most of us just go to school and try get a good job!'
The irony here is obscene. Have you ever been to China? I enjoyed my time there, but it isn't exactly Politically Correct central over there

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More specific athletes than teams - US women's gymnastics, Lochte, and Bolt.

Other than that...I'd say I either cheer for the underdog or the american.

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I don't really root for countries. I root for athletes.

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I guess I mildly root for Poland, Germany, and Croatia, the main areas where my ancestors came from, but it's nothing strong or anything. It's more like if I'm watching a sport where it's between say.... Poland and a couple random countries, I'll just say, "Go Poland," but not really care one way or the other beyond that.

When it comes to the Winter Olympics though, I usually root quite well for countries that have Hawks on their hockey teams, until they come across the United States, of course.

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Canada(home) and China.

China especially since so many people in the U.S. are openly racist or have hatred against Asians. I'm like, 'what the heck, most of us just go to school and try get a good job!'
People dislike the Chinese team because of their long history of cheating, using underage girls in gymnastics, and country's human rights violations, not because of racism. I cheer for Japan consistently on a personal basis and I'm white, so it's not an ethic bias present here.

That and the Chinese are just so damn good in virtually every single discipline. People are always going to hate on the most successful countries, right?

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Great Britain, it's their home Olympics.

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North Korea.

I've always wondered, don't the NK Olympians realize how screwed up their country is when they come to other countries for the Olympics?
People who never were in North Korea can hardly speak about how screwed they are (including myself). Media lie to us every day, I have no reason to trust them in this particular thing.

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Canada(home) and China.

China especially since so many people in the U.S. are openly racist or have hatred against Asians. I'm like, 'what the heck, most of us just go to school and try get a good job!'
Implying China is Asia...

I cheer for Korea and Japan.

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People who never were in North Korea can hardly speak about how screwed they are (including myself). Media lie to us every day, I have no reason to trust them in this particular thing.
Yeah... No.

Things are definitely screwed up there.

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