A new drinking game in time for the Olympics....
Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 12:31AM / Standard Entry
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This is in line with Terry Tye Lee's recent post, but I decided to make it fun...
This month, every time you hear a Western reporter say one of the following, drink a shot!
- "Communist dictatorship": Get it right... China has the world's largest BUREAUCRACY, not dictatorship. If you're going to complain about politics, at least get the form of government. A dictatorship is government run by a single individual. China is the EXACT opposite of a dictatorship -- it's the world's most frustratingly large bureaucracy.
- "BAY-ZZZHEEENG": Gaaah... if you're going to fly around the world to get to cover the Beijing Olympics, please at least learn how to pronounce BEIJING correclty. It's "BAY-JEEENG" -- a hard J sound like "JESUS Christ, stop fucking up our beautiful language!", not a soft ZH sound like "Jean Claude Van Damme". It annoys the heck out of me that my favorite fake newshost, Jon Stewart, still pronounces it wrong, too... Jon, I don't mispronounce your name as "Zzzzzhon Stewart", so stop fucking up ours...
- "Coming out party": You know, Chinese people have been coming out of China for a LOOONG time now. It's not a prison! There are more Chinese emigrants than any other population in the world. Last year, there were more than 50 million international travelling Chinese tourists, making Chinese one of the most populous tourist nationalities by quantity. Maybe it's the fact that Americans by-and-large are so content with learning about the world from their couch and NOT travelling out of the United States (witness our current President who had travelled so little internationally before taking office).
- Any shot of a run-down hutong w/ a modern skyscraper/Bird's Nest/etc.. in the background followed by the words "a country of striking opposites": You know, when we had the Atlanta Olympics, we didn't see any shots of the run-down, poverty-stricken inner city parts of Atlanta right next to the CNN Center... and yet they're not really that far apart. So why do you insist on making China look like a shithole built with gleaming, decorative icing on top? Just to cover up your own country's feelings of inadequacy for not improving your growing and increasingly impovershed lower class citizens?
Can you guys think of any other infuriating Western journalistic cliches?
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