Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Just when you thought you knew China

I'll start by saying that I'm watching the olympics every day. I am enjoying the sport and competition, I loved watching the US thrash the French in the mens 4x100 freestyle relay. Then, this story out of Beijing about how all that is red is not rosy:

Here was the most interesting / disturbing part to me:

"In addition, the tiny, pigtailed 9-year-old girl in the red dress who sang 'Ode to the Motherland' was lip-synching. The real voice belonged to a 7-year-old girl who was replaced because she was deemed not cute enough by a member of China's Politburo"



See, and you were worried that the Chinese were too different from Americans.

3 comments:

Mrs. Benton said...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26153578/
Did you see how cute the other little girl really is?

Steve Wallen said...

She's so cute! What a travesty.

Oh well, at least she can go work in a factory now...

Aaron O. said...

http://www.persecution.com/topStory_olympics.html

The Chinese government also began "cleaning house" around town the last several months. Evangelical Christianity is considered an evil cult by the communist (atheist) government.
Our brothers and sisters are jailed (or worse) for doing what we take for granted here. Maybe the Church in America needs a healthy dose of persecution to get us off our "blessed assurance".