How cruel is this? it even applies when dealing with children?

Question

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-Chinese-pulled-a-Milli-Vanilli-during-the-Op?urn=oly,100162

i can't believe people can sink this low. people even let their shallow animalistic tendencies control how they deal with children. anybody else disgusted?

Answer 1

thats terrible! Yang Peiyi is adorable! and for gods sake she is just a little girl.

what a terrible thing to do to give such a young child such a complex because she doesnt fit what they wanted.

i mean the other little girl is adorable too...but Peiyi should have been the one up there.

Answer 2

Why is everyone so shocked and outraged by this?  It is no different than so very many things that are done in the Western World....but I guess it makes for much better press when its the evil Chinese at fault, huh?

Apparently, however, it wasn't bad enough to stop people from watching the Olympics, has it?  So they got away with it.  Shame on all those who are outraged silently...

Answer 3

China controls their media, that fact is obvious. To appear on every television in the WORLD would be a huge thing for them. They can't mess it up by having a slightly uglier 7 year old girl perform. =P

Answer 4

Aww, poor girl. =[

Who cares what she looks like? She's not a supermodel or anything, she's a KID.

Answer 5

Yeah, actually, I am a bit disgusted by that. The pigtailed girl was cuter, but the other girl was cute too! She's just a kid. Kids aren't perfect looking, that's part of their charm! And yeah, I bet it really did a number on her self-esteem. She's only 7. She shouldn't have to worry about not being cute enough.

Answer 6

<sarcasm>Buck teeth? On a little girl, no less?! HEAVEN FORBID!</sarcasm>

Answer 7

I was disgusted with this as well when I saw it on the news this morning.  That little girl who was the real singer was adorable, despite not having "perfect" teeth.  What little kid has perfect teeth anyways?!  China should be ashamed of making themselves look like jack a$$e$.

Answer 8

That's cheap and low, but understandable. It was a worldwide show... I'm not really that disgusted. But poor girl, I hope they have something good for her...  

Answer 9

A sign of the times & yes it's whacked.  

Answer 10

This is undeniably cruel and unacceptable but it's entirely consistent with modern Feminist dogma as it pertains to the treatment of children.

Answer 11

I think that we should have never done the olympics over there in the first place.  I am truly disgusted by this but not shocked.  Its seems as if everyone cares so much about image that they sacrifice decency.