Olympic Games opening, Chinese style: The wow factor

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8-10-2008 @ 12:56AM

rrgg said...

No we can't "all agree" on that. I didn't like it at all, and the beginning looked a giant red army military exercise.

8-13-2008 @ 1:47AM

Xintong said...

"A giant red army military exercise" is the image that American media constantly portrays of China. Red is a lucky color in Chinese cultural, not neccessarily in a military sense.

8-11-2008 @ 7:36PM

rrgg said...

I wasn't literally referring to the "red" color.

I was referring to the hundreds marching and beating like a military operation. Oh, and it just happened to be all men. If China doesn't like that image maybe they shouldn't have emphasized it with the games.

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