p858snake Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=08...;show_article=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuxi Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Let's see how many more fakes are discovered before the Games end :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Everything is faked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PricklyPoo Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Maybe the people competing in the events are fake! :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadBoat89 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Everything is faked. all events are rigged... :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I think Beijing doesn't even exist. It's probably just a really good photoshop... In Communist China, Olympics fake you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brayan27 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 the Olympics sucked this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Reid Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 the Olympics sucked this year. pretty sure not many people are going to agree with that except maybe canadians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambushed Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 the Olympics sucked this year. Past tense? We're less than half way through them :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Seriuly the point wasn't to show of kids from all over the country. it was to show off the varius traditional dresses from across the nation. and somehow I don't think for example the Mongol Nomads would think too highl of sending their kids to the capital city of china for several weeks if not months to train and all that for the ceremony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAID 0 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I guess the propaganda was right... commies are a bunch of lying cheats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwai Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Hmm, they all look the same (in the photo on the linked article). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I guess the propaganda was right... commies are a bunch of lying cheats. As opposed to all the western governments that never lie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs_Angel_D Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Ohh FFS who cares, the show was a great show, why the hell is everyone so bent on making china look bad for the olympics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Ohh FFS who cares, the show was a great show, why the hell is everyone so bent on making china look bad for the olympics? Because the Olympics are boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuxi Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Seriuly the point wasn't to show of kids from all over the country.it was to show off the varius traditional dresses from across the nation. and somehow I don't think for example the Mongol Nomads would think too highl of sending their kids to the capital city of china for several weeks if not months to train and all that for the ceremony. That wouldn't have been a problem, but they said "Fifty-six children from 56 Chinese ethnic groups cluster around the Chinese national flag, representing the 56 ethnic groups." They're trying to show the "harmony" between these ethnic groups more than the dresses themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PermaSt0ne Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Ohh FFS who cares, the show was a great show, why the hell is everyone so bent on making china look bad for the olympics? wait wait, so China says it's going to do something, LIES about it, and when they get called on it everyone is "bent on making china look bad"?? it is China who is trying to convince the world that it has changed. But when you lie about stuff, it shows your true colors. theirs being red for communism and saying it's ok to censor and lie to everyone in their country to stay in power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deletedforeverhaha Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I don't think you guys know what the word "represent" means. Representing someone from another region doesn't mean you have to be from there... The negatives of China are completely blown out of proportion (except the disgusting politics China plays outside of the Olympics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterish Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 "...an official said...", what kind of source is that? People, if you're going to bash something make sure you're credible enough yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PermaSt0ne Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I don't think you guys know what the word "represent" means. Representing someone from another region doesn't mean you have to be from there... The negatives of China are completely blown out of proportion (except the disgusting politics China plays outside of the Olympics). "Fifty-six children from 56 Chinese ethnic groups cluster around the Chinese national flag, representing the 56 ethnic groups," yes, you do have to be from there. if i put some chopsticks in your hand, are you representing china? representing has nothing to do with what clothes you wear and they said that the children where from those ethnic groups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenesisV8man Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Ohh FFS who cares, the show was a great show, why the hell is everyone so bent on making china look bad for the olympics? Not from korea's perspective. When koreans came out, chinese audience were loud, rude booed them. Also china is claiming korea stole their culture but when korean scholoars disprove their theory, china has nothing to to back it up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 heh heh genesis, if you ask around China you'll get a significant percentage who think Korea and Japan are part of China, and then you'll get to those who claim the entire world. but that's besides the point. i don't know about these kids, but the 56 nationalities thing is totally made up, who gets to decide what a nationality is? there's probably dozens more, these are political definitions meant to make so-called Han people look like a majority. This is like bunching up Italians, Germans, Irish and Russians under "white" in the US. or the artificial separation of American Indians into convenient "nations". all for political purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 doesnt bother me at all. as long as its fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiiper Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 heh heh genesis, if you ask around China you'll get a significant percentage who think Korea and Japan are part of China, and then you'll get to those who claim the entire world. uh.. no mmkay? A lot of people in China believe that Korea used to be in some ways a part of the Chinese empire. They also believe Japan used to be largely uninhabitted, until the first Qin Emperor sent out a bunch of colony ships. I don't know if I agree with the beliefs, but I can understand why these beliefs are there, seeing the commonalities between the cultures. But no one in China will deny that either Japan or Korea is a sovereign nation. i don't know about these kids, but the 56 nationalities thing is totally made up, who gets to decide what a nationality is? there's probably dozens more, these are political definitions meant to make so-called Han people look like a majority. This is like bunching up Italians, Germans, Irish and Russians under "white" in the US. or the artificial separation of American Indians into convenient "nations". all for political purposes. Wrong again winner. Do not deny the existence of these different cultures, they were the root of many wars in ancient China. People are classified because they identiy themselves as members of an ethnicity, not because the government says they are. The 56 ethnicities are free to choose how they live. Some still live traditionally in villages, but the vast majority have adapted to a "normal" life. But these people still receive preferential treatment. My cousin, who is 100% Manchu had to take this university entrance exams a few months ago. He actually receives bonus marks, just for being Manchu. I'm half Han, half Manchu, but registered as Manchu. In these mixed cases the parents decide what they want the child to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 well you must be busy interviewing every single person in the world who considers themselves Chinese, so i'll keep this shortish. deny hardcore nationalism in China all you want, it makes no difference, it's alive and kicking. very mainstream and unchallenged, unlike in other societies. I'd say encouraged even - where you outside Guo Mao in Beijing April 2005 for the anti-Japan demos? did you see the "no Japanese customers" signs on restaurants? a huge portion of the people in the mainland firmly believe Korea, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam are part of China, but i'm not a census taker like you so it's hard for me to confirm this bold claim. funny how you think - i never said anything about ethnicities in China being mistreated, that's all you. i just said the 56 number is fiction, there's many more that are not recognized. i also made it clear this is not specific to China, many nations play the ethnicity game as suits them. but your non-biased mind apparently glossed over that and switched to "foreigner must not speak of China!" mode. too bad, we could have kept it civil...winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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