Photo taken from the Globe and Mail website.

The Globe and Mail, a national Canadian newspaper, reports that the San Francisco Olympic torch route was altered to avoid protesters. There were pro-Tibet and pro-China protesters on either side of the street. Prior to its arrival in the U.S., the Olympic torch also saw demonstrations in the U.K. and France.

Personally, I am glad that people all around the world are uniting behind this amazing human rights cause. However, if, along with all of this, people forget to make the distinction between government and ethnicity, and discrimination against the general Chinese public becomes rampant, my faith in the human race will dip considerably. Please remember that the government does not necessarily reflect its people’s views. I think the U.S. is hard, solid evidence of that.