One World One Dream.
I think that sums up what China is trying to remake its face to be. Now on the verge of reclaiming back more of its former glory, the
2008 Olympics now being it new founding achievement. In looking at all the events that are leading up to the Olympics on 8.8.08, I want to talk about the improvements that have been issued due to the Olympics
and how in recent history China's improvements have mostly been centered around public and more so, International events.
Politics, Beijing and the Olympics.
If anyone doesn't know politics in China is a slow process, its always been sl
ow, but with the games coming, it has sped up the process. Some people I
talked with say that its only because they are having the Olympics and its a wrong reason to clean up the cities and put the homeless in homes only becaus
e the World is looking as this time but after let everything go back to how it was. I have a lot to say on this issue but I just want to tell everyone that when you live in a house you keep it clean, sometimes it get dirty, your bed room more then other rooms gets the dirtiest, right? Well when you have company over what do you most likely always do? You clean, you put your best foot forward and do things you wouldn't had done, or something that you would have eventually done. Well think of it
on a broader scale. Don't think of China like a state in the US where policies can be implemented and done in less that a year or more. China is huge and the sheer amount of people and land would take enormous time to clean and get things done. Not only that but when you get back to the politics of it, Beijing , China govern
ments are made up entirely of "guanxi wang"(a web of personal relations). When you do something, as an official, you must consider how that something will affect everyone else connected to you and everyone connected to them. For this reason things in China get done slow, but in the past big events forced China to move faster.
Reporters from around the world are making a big fuss about t
he policies related to the Beijing Olympics politeness and anti-spitting campaigns, but most people don't know that these campaigns are old and have been put in use many time before.
Before the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, there were campaigns to improve the politeness of taxi drivers, to stop spitting in public, and to improve the health and hygiene of the citizens.
And, just before the 1990 Asian Games, disposable chopsticks were finally adopted citywide in Beijing.
What i am trying to say is that, despite all the bad people can pull up about the 2008 Beijing Olympics, look at it as a catalyst for change. I try to look at the positive in everything that goes on, and I encourage you to do the same. I will make more comments about China and the Olympics and the criticism that is brought towards it. Until next time, thank you.
Source used http://www.danwei.org
