I just watched the Foreigners' Chinese culture talent show 2004 held in China

the foreigners,mostly Western people,and one Japanese guy,
they have been studying about Chinese culture and language or lived in China for a long time,
they speak fluent Mandarin
they could sing in Mandarin
one white woman sang in some dialect of a Chinese minority group even most of the audiences didn't understand what she was singing,
one white man was accepted to the Shaolin Temple to learn Shaolin Kung Fu,he was the second foreigner ever accepted by the Shaolin Temple and he studied there for 3 years

this really puts me into shame,
as a Chinese,I am very poor in Mandarin (I am a Cantonse speaker)
I had to read the Chinese subtitles to understand what they were saying
I am not very familiar with the Chinese history,I am poor in writing Chinese (but I can read them well),
maybe thats due to I came to Vancouver when I was 9 and my parents didn't put me into some Chinese classes...

if I ever go back to China,I think I will need some serious lessons of Chinese language,culture and history,
maybe even learn some Kung Fu since I like it