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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.
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Oh, I think they did. NBC didn't investigate for itself to discover there was a contest for the singing kid. They announced the girl on TV as the contest winner. They were fed that information by the Chinese to broadcast to the world. Yes, they were trying very hard (but ineptly) to hide the truth.
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And wasn't matching a perfect voice with a perfect face not already pretty common here until it became possible to take the perfect face and convert whatever noise comes out of their mouth into perfect voice?
After all, there is a reason Marni Nixon sang while Audrey Hepburn pranced around. Sure it is more brutal that it was done to a 7-year-old but that's showbiz. |
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Can you show your husband - he wasn't seeing it.
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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.
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http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-08/41518818.jpg
Ya know, I vaguely recall him looking at the picture and jittering it. I think it's just his eyes.
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What do really think of the Chinese?
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Honestly? It's not the people, it's the government.
I had an enlightening read at Arthur Frommer's blog today (he's having another person post blogs from her Beijing trip). Here's the poster asking some questions of someone who lives there, who is answering candidly: Quote:
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oh, no, no, don't get me wrong. I despise the Chinese government, and your Borg photo was so on the money!
On the other hand, I'm not too pleased with the United States government ... but nothing makes it look good like the Chinese government!! |
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Keep in mind, Lani is Japanese. It is in her genes to look at China and think "yeah, we could take that."
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When all is said and done I'd gladly take the bullsh*t the US government pulled then the Chinese government. At least I can say I fvckin hate our current administration and not have to worry about the black helicopters delivering snipers to come... what's that red dot on my wa...
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