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China barring Joey Cheek from Olympics
Chesire Cat:
Frankly Ive been looking forward to the international debacle that shall be the Beijing Olympics. This hopefully this depressive cloud that has been hovering over the western world will finally turn to rain and we can get a better idea of what the peak oil world of the future will become. The Beijing Olympics might turn out to be nothing, or it might turn into an amazing Catalyst, and a unifying event of my generation.
I was too young to appreciate the Berlin Wall and U.S.S.R.s collapse, or even ugg Cobain's Suicide. The significant marks world history has made on me consists of 9/11 (Stating right now this just gave the west an excuse to be total dickholes and doesnt qualify as a major world changing event, or at least it shouldn't), various school shootings, every 3 years some new movie breaking box office records (ignoring the fact that rising ticket prices and openings in more theaters turn those numbers in to marketing coups), and most importantly, the world before and after the internet boom I guess being the most significant.
So here I am, stoked on everything having to do with the Olympics except, you know, the actual gaming.
jimbunny:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 07 Aug 2008, 13:34 ---
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--- Quote ---would obviously be pliant and subservient to the Han Chinese
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Confusing an ethnicity with a regime...
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No, that's what the majority of Chinese refer to themselves as. It differentiates them from the ethnicity majority living largely in the east with the Uighurs and Tibetans in the west, and the racially mixed ethnicities of central and southern China.
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That's what I meant. It makes sense that the government would want a puppet Dalai Lama, but there's no reason to suppose they'd want to make him feel or appear racially inferior.
Leinad:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 07 Aug 2008, 01:38 --- It is a phenomenal, pointless waste of money and effort on sports that I don't actually give a fuck about anyway.
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Fixed!
I think you are rather more on the wrong side in this particular statement, as there are obviously a very large number of people who care about this, or maybe you were raised on the moon with no TV. As to the morally dubious part, it brings attention to a country, as we are seeing with China, and highlights it strengths and it's weaknesses. In this case it is showing what China is really like by using a mainstream event, sometimes the only medium anyone will listen to.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 07 Aug 2008, 01:38 ---
--- Quote ---A "multiplier" effect on broader economic development is not realised as a simple "multiplier" analysis fails to capture is that resources have to be redirected from elsewhere: the building of a stadium is at the expense of other public works such as extensions to hospitals.
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To be picky: The result of this is more that sometimes that extension just won't get built, not later added to taxpayer burdens. EXAMPLE: The 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler/Vancouver have had funds redirected from places like a program for finding out how dead babies were murdered. So it's money that would have been spent anyways, it just gets spent on that sports stadium or whatever, and doesn't get directed back afterwards. No net loss to the taxpayer. Monetarily, at least.
yaaaaaay
Trollstormur:
--- Quote from: Leinad on 07 Aug 2008, 19:05 ---Fixed!
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in b4 shitstorm
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