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In brief: apparently for the opening ceremony of the Olympic games, the Chinese decided to have a cute little girl lip sync the words of a song that was sung by another little girl, who apparently was not deemed pretty enough for the camera.
That is quite low to use the talent of one little girl, but then tell her she does not look the part, and credit someone better-looking for the talent. First off, I think the true singer is cute enough anyways, and secondly, if they really didn't like her, couldn't they have found another talented girl who could sing and met their "look"? Of course, the fact that our society (because this isn't just about the Chinese, but our world in general) values a certain standard of beauty so much that we treat people in such a way is absolutely despicable. We are all guilty of favoring those we deem beautiful over those we do not, and research shows this. But seriously, do we not have a heart at all?
I expect a certain level of deceit in advertising (not that it's right), and we now live in a day and age where we can't even trust photos in news magazines, but to deceive the whole world through a little girl so that they may look favorably at your beauty just blows my mind. China seems to have no qualms about destroying the ego of one little girl to save theirs from being a little bruised. Is this really what the world has come to?
2 comments:
I don't think it's a matter of whether or not this is what the world has come to; I think it's a matter of this is what it is and has always been, especially in the case of China.
The thing about America valuing beauty so much is that if the original little girl were to perform here in America, make up artist and hair stylists would have doted all over her until the 'perfect look' had been achieved.
Either way, I thought the whole thing was pretty childish.
No pun intended.
thats pretty sad...
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