IceComet

The 2008 Olympics were supposed to be the event that brought China to the mainstream of political affluence; but in the communist’s haste for world approval, they may have overlooked a thing or two, their reputation being the most notable.

Within the first few days of the Olympics multiple scandals have broke…from underage Chinese gymnasts, to an “enhanced” opening ceremony (fake fireworks), and onto the cute little girl singing during the torch ceremony actually lip syncing to the voice of another as the true “vocalist” was not “pretty” enough to be the “face of china”.  If my over embellishment of quotation marks regarding the entire thing is not an indication of how I view the entire ordeal, I’ll go ahead and elaborate.

China was given a huge opportunity to chance the way other countries saw it in the world, to longer just being a place to manufacture counterfeit goods, and cheap labor; but something economically and politically respectable. But much like the notable amount of fake designer bags that come out of china (Coach, Dooney and Burke, L.V, etc) - the Olympics have turned out to be the exact same way; faux, at best. They have (admittedly) managed so far to keep (as intended) their human rights record at the back of people’s minds for the time being, but it is inexcusable for China to go to such extreme measures just to look good. Apparently they need a lesson in reputation - once everyone has discovered the facade, you’ve lost all credibility, and you will still just be seen as a childish developing country. The only way to fix it? Cut the crap.

Destroying millions of people’s homes to make way for an event in an attempt to garner support really seems counter-intuitive. Perhaps they just simply do not want to be seen as the one country who blew everything, the one country who couldn’t perform the moment they were called onto the stage, much like a porn star - but about 3 billion times worse, they just couldn’t get it up! Maybe they really couldn’t alter the weather to improve air quality (though I did laugh), and maybe as much as they want to appear to be perfect, they never will be.

With all eyes on you, how could they (the government) possibly come out and say they would deny honesty and integrity in the opening ceremonies by saying a little girl was not “pretty” enough to be in the Olympics. I, for one, was not aware that a part of communism was elitism. Tell me that girl will ever sing again. If that was me, I would probably off myself, to be identified, singled out, and then shot down by my own country, perhaps as much as China wants to seem united, there really is no pride in itself.  Maybe they just wanted to avoid another “William Hung” type of situation, but the girl had talent - give her her glory.

In summation, China has truly lived up to it’s name, and what it often represents to American (and foreign) consumers a like. Cheap, half-assed, and tainted with lead.  So long as China continues to “mess up” it can never truly enjoy the glory of such an important event in their (and the world’s) history.