Turns out there was more faking going on during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics than we first thought. The foot prints firework was fake, the girl didn't sing live, but now more nice facts are emerging from the Chinese capital.
Remember these 56 children who were representing the 56 ethnic minorities of China? Turns out now that they were all Han Chinese - the ethnic majority in China with over 1.2 billion people. Of course that wouldn't have been a problem, if they had not told the world that these children all were chosen from the ethnic minority they represented. It also would have been less of a problem if they hadn't faked other parts of the ceremony too. What do you mean, 'control freaks'?
That control freak image is being reinforced by the stories that emerge from the training and selection procedures for the girls who present the Olympic medals. They were asked to strip naked, then were measured to make sure they had the right proportions. If they didn't have the right proportions, they could still join the training to be cheerleaders. Training for the three minute procedure was tough, the girls got up at 5am, started training at 6am and didn't get back before 8pm. And that during six months prior to the Games.
All it shows to the world is a government that is so desperately trying to control every aspect of the Games that the rest of the world only gets more convinced that they are doing exactly the same with the people they represent. Or are supposed to represent, because democracy still is a relatively unknown idea in modern day China.
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