Olympic Opening Ceremony

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Tenigma

I do like the optical illusion.

Can you show your husband - he wasn't seeing it.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

My guess would be that it never occurred to them anyone would see a problem with it. From their point of view they were just making the ceremony as perfect as they could. It's not like they tried very hard to hide it.

Susan brought up a good point on this last night.

One needs to consider the culture that it comes from. The Chinese tend to think more in terms of what is good the group - the collective conscious if you will. The individual is not as highly regarded as it here is in the West. This is not a fault of the Chinese: just a different mindset (which has IMO advantages and disadvantages).

Since they believe in doing what is best for the country (not the individual), it may have been at least partially "no big deal" to them.