A project meeting started with Beijing Olympic Games

An hour after I walked into our office in Chicago for new day of work this morning, I was called to attend a meeting about project we are doing. As peopel come in, topics were soon changed unexpectedly to Beijing Olympics. Mike Phelps; lip-singing; open ceremony;fake fireworks; solidiers for voluteers; underage girls and so on. All of 7 peoples do not sound positive towards those fake things. But they were not critical either. At last, my manager said to the effect that this is Chinese's party, however they run it, let them run it.

2 things that surprised me: one is that my manager and co-workers all follow the games closer than I expected. Second thing is that as Americans, they obviously do not approve of those fake things but understand that why Chinese did what they did and took "not my business" attitude.

My impression out of this casual chat is that lip-singing is the biggest mistake. It does not sit well with west culture. Faking exists in west countries, too, but not with children. If the motive of doing so was to give better impression to outside world on China, I am afraid I have to say that they blew it.

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• Who cares what they think, Oops, sorry, of course you do. -columbia- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/14/2008 postreply 19:22:57

• If they do not care, why do you think they go through this trobl -baiwen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/14/2008 postreply 19:37:21