What are your feelings about China hosting the Olympics?
By nonew3
@nonew3 (1941)
United States
5 responses
@zhgddk (12)
• China
14 Aug 08
I am a chinese guy.I was very shamful for you,i hope you never buy chinese thing.what FREE?now i know,it is a tool to shame us,i know maybe chinese people are not so free like you guys,but it increase a lot.but you guys ever think that we are stupid like 100years ago???I am shamed foe you!!!!!!
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
14 Aug 08
Take a look at what we are writing here. This is really what much of the rest of the world thinks about China, especially in the West, and about China hosting the Olympics.
This is the truth of how we perceive all of this, beyond what your government is saying and what your government is telling you.
We have heard a lot of very bad stuff about China, how the Chinese government treats their people, about the invasion of Tibet, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
If you Chinese people want to continue to trade with the US, then you need to take notice.
The fact is, many in the West are angry and fed up.
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
14 Aug 08
Oh, yes, I know that in boycotting Chinese-made goods it will mean that we won't be able to buy many of the things in places like dollar stores and Walmart.
But, some of us in the US and Canada care about more than just getting dirt-cheap goods made in sweat factories.
Besides, much of that stuff is painted with lead paint that is dangerous for kids and breaks the next day. Remember the massive toy recall we had not that long ago?
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
16 Aug 08
I didn't say that everything in Walmart and dollar stores is made in China, but one has to weed out all the stuff that is Chinese-made. It just seems that a lot of Chinese stuff ends up in discount stores somehow.
Boycotting Chinese goods is a major undertaking. It means that you have to read the labels on every single thing you buy, just about.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
14 Aug 08
Well when I consider that China violates human rights and actually forced the poor people out of their homes to make room for the Olympics, I thought that they could have chosen a better host. I think the world is trying to whitewash the things it did because they want the trade. I did not like it that they took the children from villages and trained them for the Olympics and how they did it. I mean it is not professional in that the children do not get paid, but it is stretching the amateur status quite a bit and when they substituted the good looking little girl for the little girl who was a singer but was not as pretty, well how can you trust a nation like that?
I hope the visiting nations there take a real look at what China is really like, not just the glint and the glamor or what they show, but what the people especially the women who wanted two children but were forced to have only one, have to go through.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
14 Aug 08
I remember a video on Youtube that this man fron England had been over there, I have no idea what he was over there but he was part of a news crew, but he was telling about all these people being evicted from their homes and most of them were poor people. The Chinese police did not want him to talk to the families and they threw him in jail and threatened to take away his passport. They would have destroyed the film, but he already had sent it out.
And I hate the idea of forced abortions. What these poor women have to go through and what any woman has to go through. It must be terrible and I hear they do not give them anything to dull the pain. It is pure savagery. I bet many of the woman die, but they probably hush it up!
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
16 Aug 08
I am more concerned with the human violations against their own people. I mean I can never understand how someone is more concerned with animals being butchered and yet does not care one lick about some poor woman being forced to undergo an abortion without antiseptic or some child working in a factory with no proper ventilation. And the way in which some of the stuff they pack can have harmful effects on our children. Not to mention the low pay they get. I am all for cottage industries in these countries, but forcing people to work in factories with unsanitary conditions is terrible! And we also got to mention the persecution of Christians who do not attend their state run churches. You have to understand China is a communist country.
Oh thanks for the best response.
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
16 Aug 08
And, if you really want to see horror in action in China, go to PETA's official web site and watch their video footage of Chinese fur farms skinning dogs and cats alive for their fur, in order to make that fur into trinkets, coat fur liners, and etc., worldwide. This is one of the reasons why I am vehemently against the fur industry.
If you get a fur-lined or supposedly fake-fur-lined item made in China, it might not be what you think it is.
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@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
13 Aug 08
I think that china should not be hosting the olympics. It's not right for a country that believes in censorship the way they do, and with so many human rights violations, to be hosting the olympics. I hate the way that people are being arrested for the Tibet protests. Had China not invaded Tibet, there would be no protests. They need to stick that in their pipes and smoke it. I am totally boycotting the olympics.
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
14 Aug 08
Oh, yes, the Tibetan protests! That is particularly nasty of the Chinese government to have invaded Tibet. I really can't blame the protestors one bit.
I hate that China has been granted the privilege of hosting the Olympics. It's as if someone, or some group of people, is okaying all the human rights violations, censorship, and other very serious problems.
I am boycotting the Olympics as well. I used to love watching the Olympics, but not anymore. This has, in a way, painted sewer sludge on it, and it stinks to high heaven.
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@jsmith12 (438)
• Canada
15 Aug 08
But they aren't all that open! They're going ahead and hiding things that should be made public. AND they're manipulating the games to make them look better then they really are.
With so many issues, it's destroying the games because everyone focuses on the scandles and problems, NOT the games. Headline news around here is the belife that the China gym team is under age, and the manipulation of the opening ceramonies. NOT the games themselves.
@jsmith12 (438)
• Canada
14 Aug 08
I knew it would be bad from the start, before anything even happened.
Now we have protests, scandles, and governments sucking up to the Chines because they feel 'insulted' by every little thing.
At the same time, they're lying to us, hiding information about injuries caused by this shows, and possibly cheating.
It's wrong, and it's only asking for trouble, plane and simple.
