Honour of Hong Kong - the Symbol of Ethnic Division

I was attracted by an article in Apple Daily last Sunday about Bruce Lee's statue in Bosnia. Its already strange enough for me that why these 2 are related. I guess not many Hong Kong people realize that Bruce Lee actually is the symbol of Ethnic Division. I didnits't quite understand why at the v begining but P told me that its because Bruce Lee's favourite saying in the film of Fist of Fury (精武門) with the favourite saying: "Remember this. We Chinese are not sick! (中國人不是東亞病夫) (after defeating the Japanese karate school, for the first time). It implied the meaning of ethnic equality. And that'd be why Bosnia erected Bruce Lee's statue in the Bosnian city of Mostar.

You'd read more from the BBC news as follows. Its not new though:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4474316.stm

Bosnia unveils Bruce Lee bronze

The statue is situated in Mostar's central park and faces north

A bronze of martial arts legend Bruce Lee has been erected in the Bosnian city of Mostar - a day before a second statue of him is unveiled in Hong Kong.

The life-size 1.68 metre statue depicts the Chinese-American actor in a typical defensive fighting position.

Hong Kong unveils its own statue of the kung-fu star on Sunday, at a ceremony to be attended by Lee's widow Linda.

The Mostar unveiling was attended by the ambassadors of China and Germany, both of whom assisted the project.

The city witnessed fierce fighting between rival ethnic factions in the 1992-95 war.

Symbol

It remains split with Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs still deeply divided.

Lee was chosen by organisers as a symbol of the fight against ethnic divisions.

"We will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats," said Veselin Gatalo of the youth group Urban Movement Mostar.

"But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee."

Lee, who died in 1973 at the age of 32, was born in the US but moved to Hong Kong as a child.

The statue there will be unveiled on what would have been the Enter the Dragon star's 65th birthday.