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I was deeply moved by the song ‘Ode to the Motherland’. It was not because of the cute little girl, Lin Miaoke or the voice of the other girl, Yang Peiyi but the content of the song. I don’t care who sang the song. At that moment, the song was sung out from billions Chinese’s bottom of heart. I broke in tears when I heard it. It is too meaningful for Chinese. I knew and sang the song when I was 7 years old, when I did not exactly understand the meaning of song, when China was not strong at all and when China had nothing to do with Olympics. At that time, Chinese comfort themselves or entertain themselves with the song though we did not even have enough food and clothes. Now China is still far from strong but has already drawn so much attention from the rest of world. Even this kind of details about who sang a song has become the headline of western news papers.
The performance in opening ceremony was a product of artists, which is not an athlete with doping to compete in the summer game. Why people care that so much and put it as headline of all news papers. From my points of view, the media finally found a ‘bone’ in an egg, a wonderful ‘weapon’ to attack China. The opening ceremony did not hurt the little girl, Yang Peiyi but what media has done hurt both little girls. I think the little Yang Peiyi is crying now. Please put the ‘weapon’ down. Chinese culture won’t kill Chinese little girls but Western interpretation will.
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