Fake Olympic singer in Olympics... What's with communism?

Question

The face of a seven-year-old Chinese girl star singer at the Olympic opening ceremony was replaced with another after the government decided she was not good-looking enough, it emerged. I'm glad I live in a capitalist society, I pity the chinese.

http://news.aol.co.uk/olympic-ceremony-singer-was-fake/article/200808120852511075089027

Answer 1

Now you have learned something about Communist strategy to deal with the west nations:

       The false one might be true one;

       the true  one might be the false one;

       truth  may exist in false;

       false  may be mixed with truth

       one will never be able to identify true or false.

On our side, what's wrong with those fake men and fake women in this country?

Answer 2

Pure communism in theory sounds great, but in practice humans get too power hungry and then communism goes awry.  The little girl who actually did the singing is adorable!  I don't know what the "high official" who called for the switch was thinking.

Answer 3

So what does fake WMD report in Iraq make you think about capitalism?

Some people tend to make up their mind about some very significant things based on trivial facts. There are good and bad people/things in every country no matter whether it's capitalist or communist. Some people just don't know how much they are brainwashed.

When you were born if somehow you had been brought to a communist country and raised up there, maybe you would have been an extreme communist and disdain capitalism now. Or if you had been brought to and raised up in a Muslim country, maybe now you'd be complaining about "decadence" of modern Western morality. Still think it's your own idea?

Ironic, isn't it?

Answer 4

1. It is not "emerged", it is the organizer who publicly told the truth to the media after the opening ceremony, for he felt the background girl deserves the credit.

Pity you dont understand Chinese so as to get the news earlier and quicker.

2. Pavarotti lip-synched his performance at the opening ceremony of the Turin Winter Olympic Games in 2006, which was later revealed by Leone Magiera, who worked with Pavarotti for years, a recently published book.

(souce see the below link)

Maybe the naive Chinese organzier should have taken a leaf from his Italian counterpart by keeping his mouth shut and reveal it later? See what the Chinese got for being honest?

Keep your pity for yourself. The Chinese can enjoy their live in the way they like, such as spending hundreds of millions USD for a big party like the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Answer 5

It is ridiculous. China cares too much about its appearance and now that this has come out, it definitely doesn't make them look any good!

I think they have gone way overboard with the Olympics; I heard they were practicing and planning everything out for a whole year! It's disgusting that they said that seven year old singer wasn't cute enough to be seen so they had a better looking girl come out instead of her.  

Answer 6

This is totally messed up! Their future generations are going to let the so-called good-looking people rule the country. This kinda reminds me of Britney Spears! lol

Answer 7

Stupid Olympic should be something important

it just pethectic  

Answer 8

that absolutely disgusts me, if they cant even leta little girl sing, what else are these b******s doing to people here

Answer 9

In reply to asia.You have a one theme answer that fits every question posted.Pavarotti may have lip synched but,it was to his own voice not another persons.The giant footprints were CGI,the Olympic organizers have admitted it was and now you are saying that it wasn't.Maybe later,we will get more news about CGI.And the hundreds of millions spent on an opening ceremony could have gone a long way to help the poor who are living on less than $200 a month.Or compensate the people evicted from their ancestral homes in Peking,they were not re-housed or given compensation when their homes were bulldozed to make way for Olympic buildings.

Answer 10

**** those stupid leaders.They did everything they want under the name of people's wish.What is interest of the country?That idiotic speak was absolute an excuse for what they had done,because even they didnot know why they need to do such meaningless thing.

Answer 11

I agree that it's quite disappointing to switch out the original girl because of her buck teeth. However, I do believe people are making this issue bigger than it should be. We are looking into the specific way too much rather looking at the whole overall performance. The singing was only a small part in the opening ceremony. The ceremony was a performance and like most performance its about imagination, magic, hidden tricks, and ideal. I don't believe the Chinese did it to hurt anyone. I'm sure it was for good intention that China didn't think it was going to be a big fuss that backfired. In a way I wish people would look at the issue on both sides rather just the Western point of view where we think Communism is always "evil" and something like that shall tarnish every hard effort China has put into the opening. I also don't think the little girl switch-a-roo is a political issue. It's more a Chinese culture issue..well actually an Asian culture issue. Asians are very well known to be obsessed with image and beauty. Don't tell me that Americans aren't equally as obsessed with beauty as well. I can equally pity our capitalist society for advertising false beauty all over. I know one of my concerns is that America is so diverse yet we still see very few colored supermodels or even just colored models gracing magazine covers (and tv/movie entertainment). We have young girls picking up these magazines wishing they were too as gorgeous when the beauty industry is known to photoshop and alter these already gorgeous models to make them look obsessively out-of-this-world PERFECT. (Just watch the documentary America the Beautiful). So image is a lie all over.

Answer 12

it sucked for the girl for sure...

Answer 13

we do it all the time, but maybe with a little more subtlety.

Answer 14

I understand that its the Chinese culture to do this but imagine being that little girl who was told your voice is outstanding but sorry your not pretty enough. I think its terrble.