Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Who are we kidding?

The entire Western media are up in arms because it has been revealed that Chinese officials replaced a 9-year-old girl with a beautiful voice but crooked teeth with a prettier lip-synching girl in the opening ceremonies.

I'm not going to defend the Chinese jerks on this at all.

But.

Everyone in Western media is obsessed with beauty and physical perfection. Does anyone really believe that the same thing wouldn't happen here? This would never happen in America, land of Child Beauty Pageants? Come on. What hypocrites.

The only difference is that here the child with crooked teeth wouldn't even have made it that far. Assuming there had been a nation-wide search for a performer, she would've been eliminated at the regional level.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

...I'm surprised they even allow ugly athletes to compete!

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Ugly athletes can compete, but judging from the Opening ceremonies, they aren't allowed to be flag-bearers. I'd say that 98% of flag bearers were the most beautiful members of their teams.