A new China?
By Michael J.W. Stickings
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I'll let the Globe explain this one, our amusing photo of the day: "Mascots cheer at a Beijing event called 'Welcome the Olympics; use civilized behaviour; create a new atmosphere' aimed at making the city’s 15 million people model citizens before the 2008 Summer Games."
Call it totalitarianism with a smile.
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Labels: Amusing Photo of the Day, China, sports
2 Comments:
I was in Beijing this past May, and the whole city is under an enormous push, both in marketing and renovation. But those mascots are NOT the same ones that I saw everywhere in the city.
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Fargus..., at 12:59 AM
They look like Teletubbies on acid.
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Anonymous, at 7:38 PM
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