When I first heard about the lip-synching at the Olympic opening ceremony, I was quite amused by the Chinese quest for “perfection” whatever the cost. I must admit I pounced on the news as the latest fodder to ridicule and criticize. Woah, they restrict what the foreign press report, train their girls to walk/smile/talk in a particular way, digitally enhance the fireworks, and forbid a little singer from claiming her minutes in the limelight because of crooked teeth.
But when I thought about it, there really is no reason to ridicule.
They want to put up a show that’s aesthetically perfect – nothing wrong with that at all. So within their team, the Song-writer writes, the Musicians play, the Singer sings and the Pretty One presents.
Perhaps we should be impressed instead, by the way they put their goal, their nation before self. While we were thinking, “Oh no, the poor girl, is she gonna grow up with an issue? Will she think she’s ugly? Will she hate her body/teeth/mother?” perhaps she was thinking, “I have done my nation proud. I have contributed to the nation by singing the song for the Olympics Opening Ceremony.”
Perhaps it never did occur to them nor her to put individual glory before a nation’s needs?
In any case, putting the pretty ones on tv - isn’t that what the rest of the world does? And when the singers/ actors/models aren’t comely enough, don’t they just starve/nip/tuck them into “perfection”?
At least they didn’t pull out all her teeth and make her wear dentures to create that illusion of beauty.
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