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Thousands of Chinese rallied over the weekend in Paris, London and Los Angeles, protesting some Western media organizations' distortion of facts in Tibet and their hostile attitudes to China's hosting of the Olympic Games. During the protests, many Chinese students, especially girls, wept. They wept because they felt aggrieved. The hostile feelings about China they witnessed in those Western countries recently hurt their national pride. It hurt their love of their country, which is also the host country for the Games. They were too young to be indifferent to their emotions. The Chinese youths went to the Western countries with the purpose of learning advanced science and technologies and with their admiration for Western culture. These people in their 20s were born in the years after China began to open itself to the outside world. Since their childhood, they have grown a strong interest in everything Western - from KFC to Christmas tree, from Hollywood to Harry Potter. And they developed an admiration for such concepts as liberty, equality and universal fraternity that they believed originated in the West. After they had lived there for a certain period of time, however, they began to realize that the "fraternity" is not universal. Because of various reasons, they often suffered from misunderstanding, which sometimes turned into discrimination. Though they were pampered children at home, they swallowed the misunderstandings and even the insults and tried to adapt themselves to the local culture. | 
