Who is your ideal hero?

Recently HK did an interesting survey on "Who is the Hero?". The result is:

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/040217/10/x6xb.html

(1) Sun Yat Sen

(2) Father

(3) Mother

(4) Yang Liwei (First Chinese Taikonaut)

(5) Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan/Li Ka Shing/Law enforcement officers

(6) Andy Lau

(7) Jesus Christ

(8 ) SARS doctors/nurses & Tung Chee Hwa

(9) Anson Chan

(10) Anita Mui/Mao Zedong/Kuan Yu

I guess such survey will get different responses in various Chinese communities. The result may reflect the values each society holds.

Isn't number one a bit unusual (I mean for HK)? Has to do with the education right? And was it an open end question or were the students given choices or guided to answer it?

This survey is a bunch of bamboo shoots! (Chinese B.S.)

You gotta put Yao Ming somewhere between Andy Lau and Jesus Christ.

Wait a couple more months and Yang Liwei won't even be able to get a dim sum table reservation at City Hall.

Sun Yat Sen #1? Come on, we all know it's Jackie Chan.

Where's that other Jackie? Jackie Cheung? Couldn't even tie for 10th with the Kitchen God and those two bobbleheads?

Gimme a break.

Confucius:

Yao Ming may be hot in Mainland and US. But not in HK.

Yao's match in HK didn't even get a full house. His popularity fared far below the British soccer star Beckham in HK. (It doesn't imply that Yao is not as good as Beckham.)

Why so curious about Sun being No. 1?

Similiar polls in Shanghai and Beijing always put Mao Zedong and Zhou on the top spots.

HKers can be as patriotic as Shanghaiese and Beijingers. Of course, patriotism does not mean blind loyalty to the party. That is why HKers place Sun on the top spot instead of Mao and Zhou.

By the way, Jesus Christ is ranked No. 7 in HK. If people in Mainland is given a free say, I think they would put him above Mao or Zhou.

Please, Ian, no more discussion on patriotism. I am sick of it (I suppose you know what is happening here. We've been thrown a red herring and people are talking about who is patriotic instead of the actual political reform).

IMO Dr Sun is really an unusual choice of HK youngsters (not that I don't respect him. Actually he could be one of my choices if I were asked the same question.)

Skylee:

Read the details of the poll. It was not conducted among the youths. It was a random sampling of 500 people on the street.

By the way, according to Beijing's definition, neither Sun nor Mao was "patriotic" since they both opposed the regime that they lived under.

Thanks for pointing out my misunderstanding.

It was a random sampling of 500 people on the street.

Random sampling on the street is hardly accurate.

Sun Yet Sen only received 13/500 votes -- 2.6% of all the votes.

Quest:

Read carefully:

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/040217/12/x6ii.html

Sun got 13% of the 500 votes casted. That is 65 votes.

That's a different link >.<

Similiar polls in Shanghai and Beijing always put Mao Zedong and Zhou on the top spots.

come on, man! could you show us the info source? don't always put things as your imagining or 以偏概全, 好不好? pls!

By the way, Jesus Christ is ranked No. 7 in HK. If people in Mainland is given a free say, I think they would put him above Mao or Zhou.

i would say most of people in mainland right now don't believe any -sm, including the name you mentioned. i mean no offence at all!

Similiar polls in Shanghai and Beijing always put Mao Zedong and Zhou on the top spots.

come on' date=' man! could you show us the info source? [/quote']

I used to ask my students a slightly different question- "If you could talk to anyone from history, who would it be?"- and yes, the answer was always Mao or Zhou.

Similiar polls in Shanghai and Beijing always put Mao Zedong and Zhou on the top spots.

come on' date=' man! could you show us the info source? [/quote']

I used to ask my students a slightly different question- "If you could talk to anyone from history, who would it be?"- and yes, the answer was always Mao or Zhou.

sure, if the answer was Alexander the Great, they would need an interpreter then. lol

haha, just kidding, but my point is, the answer maybe caused by that both mao and zhou were living near today(i.e. Genghis khan-es are really not as famous as them in western world), but doesn't mean blind loyalty to the party or stuff(see Ian_Lee's point)... actually in today's china, mao and zhou really don't have the forces or effect as strong as some people's imagination. the younger generation would rather individualism than any other -sm.

sure mao is autocratic, but as you see, heroes are always being a law onto themself, otherwise, there're no heroes in the world.

haha, dont throw eggs to me~~~~

hehe, dont take it seriously, just for fun!

Whos the hero? Me myself and I

支持！

Cometrue:

I always think comrade Lui Feng was your hero.

Hmmm.....this female garbage-picker from Liaoning in Guangzhou also considers Li Ka Shing as her hero.

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Cometrue:

I always think comrade Lui Feng was your hero.

sure if i was as ignorant as he was...BTW, pls use han yu pin yin, When in Rome, do as the Romans do. it's lei feng, not lui feng.