According to the Washington Post, on Thursday, Jackie Chan, an extremely successful martial arts figure and motion picture celebrity in the United States and elsewhere around the globe, has blasted the United States by calling the country the most corrupt country in the world.
Chan, primarily known in the United States and his homeland of China, is usually a giddy character known for such action movies as “Rush Hour” and “Rumble in the Bronx”. Yet, when being seriously interviewed on Chinese television recently, he became quite political again - as he has in the past - by speaking extremely defensively of China and its Chinese Communist Party while speaking ultra-critically of the United States.
Speaking in Chinese during a Hong Kong interview of note, Chan praised the successes of China – the New China – of the past decade. Then he lashed out at the United States and blamed the country for the financial crisis that is sweeping the globe.
Many writers in the United States are now beginning to blog and report negatively of Jackie Chan, blaming him for spreading his anti-Americanism with his brand of criticism regarding America. They also question how Chan could have spent so much time in the United States making movies and having his tremendous success in the country if he really feels that the country is the most corrupt in the world.
The entire anti-American speak of Chan is being labeled as quite hypocritical.
Chan is the second foreign celebrity who has found extreme success in the United States and then turned extremely critical of the country in which their careers escalated. Several weeks ago, CNN’s conservative talk show host Piers Morgan criticized the United States for its gun policies and its Second Amendment. As a result of that criticism, a White House petition was introduced to have Morgan deported back to his home country of the United Kingdom. When the petition grew to an excess of 104,000 signatures, the White House responded by saying that Morgan would not be deported for using the First Amendment of free speech to criticize the Second Amendment.
http://www.examiner.com/article/jackie-chan-s-anti-americanism-severely-criticized
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