just seen that passage with the song you mentioned.

It is indeed the worst part of the whole program. Horrible in every way.

"考虑客人的感受" is a very Chinese way of thinking.

I actually think that the goal of hosting modern Olympic is to introduce own culture to the world, and to quote Peter Uberroth, "what is a better more efficient way to show the world than Olympic?" when you have people from over 100 countries physically present in your land and experience it and you have the attention of the world for a month. In this sense, he did the exact right thing at the opening ceremony.