In the thread for the men's FS for the JGP Bratislava, I saw a few discussions about it in the last few postings, so I thought maybe we can discuss more here about it.
Like for me, besides rooting for Americans (Because I myself am one) and other skaters I like for their skills and stuff, there are some skaters I root for bcause of different reasons.
Like I will root for skaters who represent Israel because I'm Jewish and Israel is considered the homeland of the Jews.
Plus I also get slightly excited when I find out some skaters are Jewish because Judaism is kind of considered a minority religion cause of the amount of people practicing it, so I feel a connection in some way.
Also I root for skaters representing the Philippines because we have a really good family friend who immigrated to the USA from there and she became the nanny of me and my younger brother when we were babies due to that both my parents work. She not so much our nanny anymore because we're older (And plus my brother just moved to Tennessee for college), but she still helps out around the house and drives me to school and stuff cause I don't drive. Anyways, she's like my 2nd mother so whenever I hear about the Philippines in any way or form, I think of her.
Like for me, besides rooting for Americans (Because I myself am one) and other skaters I like for their skills and stuff, there are some skaters I root for bcause of different reasons.
Like I will root for skaters who represent Israel because I'm Jewish and Israel is considered the homeland of the Jews.
Plus I also get slightly excited when I find out some skaters are Jewish because Judaism is kind of considered a minority religion cause of the amount of people practicing it, so I feel a connection in some way.
Also I root for skaters representing the Philippines because we have a really good family friend who immigrated to the USA from there and she became the nanny of me and my younger brother when we were babies due to that both my parents work. She not so much our nanny anymore because we're older (And plus my brother just moved to Tennessee for college), but she still helps out around the house and drives me to school and stuff cause I don't drive. Anyways, she's like my 2nd mother so whenever I hear about the Philippines in any way or form, I think of her.