Comments on: China’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Deception & Lies: Impact on Culture Part I http://www.cleancutmedia.com/advertising/china-2008-beijing-olympic-deception-lies-impact-on-culture Influences of Media & Pop Culture on Our Worldview. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel Kim http://www.cleancutmedia.com/advertising/china-2008-beijing-olympic-deception-lies-impact-on-culture/comment-page-1#comment-178 Daniel Kim Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:10 +0000 http://blog.cleancutmedia.com/?p=152#comment-178 I think Jake has a point, but then again, if Sydney and Athens decided to lip-sync or pre-record the orchestra because the original players were black and they didn't want black people to be so prominent, wouldn't you have some problems with this? In other words, I think the problem that people are having with the "not cute enough" replacement is not that there was some kind of a "deception", but because of the explicitly stated motivation for replacing someone, especially a child. Furthermore, when there is some kind of covert lip-syncing (like in previous Olympics) among the adults, you implicitly know that there's agreement on both sides.. Right? Because if there is no agreement, then that's called fraud and could be prosecuted. But when it comes to a child who sings and then is replaced because she's too ugly, I am not sure if we could implicitly know that there was an agreement. I guess that's why this incident is causing somewhat of a stir - because it involves a child. I don't think you can get a snapshot of Chinese culture or anything from this incident, though. Rather than seeing this incident as a snapshot of a particular culture, perhaps we can see this as a snapshot of our humanity that places so much value on physical beauty. I think Jake has a point, but then again, if Sydney and Athens decided to lip-sync or pre-record the orchestra because the original players were black and they didn’t want black people to be so prominent, wouldn’t you have some problems with this? In other words, I think the problem that people are having with the “not cute enough” replacement is not that there was some kind of a “deception”, but because of the explicitly stated motivation for replacing someone, especially a child.

Furthermore, when there is some kind of covert lip-syncing (like in previous Olympics) among the adults, you implicitly know that there’s agreement on both sides.. Right? Because if there is no agreement, then that’s called fraud and could be prosecuted.

But when it comes to a child who sings and then is replaced because she’s too ugly, I am not sure if we could implicitly know that there was an agreement. I guess that’s why this incident is causing somewhat of a stir – because it involves a child.

I don’t think you can get a snapshot of Chinese culture or anything from this incident, though. Rather than seeing this incident as a snapshot of a particular culture, perhaps we can see this as a snapshot of our humanity that places so much value on physical beauty.

]]> By: Jake http://www.cleancutmedia.com/advertising/china-2008-beijing-olympic-deception-lies-impact-on-culture/comment-page-1#comment-176 Jake Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:35:23 +0000 http://blog.cleancutmedia.com/?p=152#comment-176 It was a ceremony, not a concert, get over yourself! It turned out that both Sydney and Athens' performance contained "fraud" from the orchestra to the Olympic theme song, would you call them "deceived"? Keep sissing on a "snapshot of China" aka the Beijing Olympics does not help you get a better or deeper understanding of China and Chinese culture. Peace It was a ceremony, not a concert, get over yourself! It turned out that both Sydney and Athens’ performance contained “fraud” from the orchestra to the Olympic theme song, would you call them “deceived”? Keep sissing on a “snapshot of China” aka the Beijing Olympics does not help you get a better or deeper understanding of China and Chinese culture.

Peace

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