Religious Guilt
You’d think the Catholics would have it pretty firmly nailed down but no, gotta hand it to ancestor worship:
BBC – China warns on Olympics morality
Chinese authorities have warned government and Olympic officials not to indulge in corrupt or immoral behaviour during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Officials will be monitored to ensure they are living clean lifestyles, the China Daily newspaper reported.
(Ah, but who monitors the monitors?)
“More than 20,000 unregistered reporters and 10,000 registered ones are coming, and they are going to cover every detail of Beijing in their articles,” Wang Qishan said.
“We have to have a good Olympics, otherwise not only will our generation lose face, but also our ancestors.”
Heh.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Will googling be considered unclean?
January 29th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
You dishonor your ancestors even asking that question!
January 29th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
That’s the adventage of having convict ancestors. Just stay out of gaol and you’re raising the bar.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Haha!
Damn, you Aussies got the system gamed, man.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
“We have to have a good Olympics, otherwise not only will our generation lose face, but also our ancestors.”
Them commies are having a lot of success with the middle kingdom.