"AMERICAN BEATS out Kwan." The message popped up on personal computer screens all over the world, courtesy of MSNBC, moments after American Tara Lipinski edged American Michelle Kwan for the Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
This was anything but a benign blunder to many Americans who bristle when their fellow Americans presume they are foreigners because of their physical appearance. "People come up to me on the street and ask, 'Where are you from?' " said George Choi, a Bay Area resident who was outraged by the MSNBC news alert. "I tell them I'm from San Jose."
Kwan 实际上是植根美国multi-generation华人之后，今年她被派往它国任外交大使
