Yesterday was a self-declared half day at work for me. Once in awhile doing something unethical actually feels great! :D
Met hubby at Simply Life (our favourite restaurant at Festival Walk) for lunch around 2pm and went home straight to have an afternoon nap. Now that's SIMPLY LIFE!
Anyway, I was reading the South China Morning Post yesterday and there was an article on the Olympics about how many garbage collectors working for small-scale recycling companies are being driven out of the capital because they are thought to be eye-sores. Beijing cannot afford to have foreigners see those shabbily dressed common residents anywhere near the Olympics venues! Those poor souls are driven out without any form of compensation and are told to come back only after the Olympics. Why? It's not good for the image that China wants to portray to the whole world to see. No! China do not have shabbily dressed garbage collectors who have been making their living out of finding recyclable items at the many garbage dumps inside the city. And all the citizens of China are smart-looking, speaks good English and walks graciously with a book on their heads! That's the image they wants to portray and they have been training their people hard! Those who cannot match the image? Out! Out they go, together with pests. That's how China is cleaning up her capital and cities hosting the Olympics.
It's disgusting, isn't it? Get real! Be truthful! The whole world already know what China is like and no matter how "cleaned up" China is for the sake of the Olympics will not change people's perception of China. At least for me, it's true.
4 comments:
Hi waitingkitty!
Thanks for your visit to my blog. :)
I love Hello Kitty too! but living with my boys, it is a no-no for it to be seen in the house. hehe....
I pity those poor fellas lah! Where are they going to live for the next month? They will starve to death! Their family back home will starve to death because they rely on the garbage collectors' meagre earnings to survive.
Gosh... such tragedies.
Actually, I think that's a good sign. It shows that China cares enough about how she appears to the world and is prepare to take steps in engaging the the other countries on their terms (portrayal of English speaking citizens etc.)
It'll be much worse if the most populous country in the world behave like Iran, which basically doesn't care a hoot about what anyone think of it.
Hi eastcoastlife! Thanks for visiting!
Yeah, those poor fellows will just have to go back to their hometown, wait it out and then come back again after Sept...
The gap between the rich and the poor is just too wide in China. So many of them are so filthy rich, you just can't believe how they come to HK and sweep all the branded bags off the shelves. Then there are some so poor, they are starving and dependent on charity.
I wish their government will do something about closing this gap instead of just trying to show off their strength through this stupid Olympics Games.
Hi CK,
Comparing China with one of the worst countries in the world is really too optimistic. There are still so much problems in China that needs to be solved. Just for the sake of the Olympics which they have been trying to host since they started their bid in 1990, they are just simply sweeping all the dirty things under the carpet.
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