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Who's your favorite of the five Beijing 2008 Olympic Mascots? I think I like Yingying (the orange one). REally, I don't like any of them though. It seems like kind of a dumb choice of mascot. They seem kind of like Power Ranger Pikachus or something which seems more Japanese to me than Chinese, and the Chinese hate the Japanese, so I don't know why they would want to invoke such images. It is also pretty cheesy. When you add all five of the mascots names together and divde by two (look at just the first syllable in their two-syllable names), you get "Beijing Welcomes You" in Chinese (as if they were named Beibei Jingjing Welwel Comescomes Youyou). Kinda really stupid if you ask me. I personally think they should've chosen a killer panda ninja with bloody teeth that uses chopsticks as its weapon as the mascot. Yeah, that would be WAY cooler!! Although, I guess that would still be pretty Japanese-y with the ninja stuff and all... but at least it wouldn't be so lame
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I like Beibei. Lol. your blog is funny much funnier than if Meida wrote a blog about these mascots. :D
Thanks :-D
yeah, those're pretty retarded looking. Especially because they kind of reinforce stereotypes about Asian pop culture cutseyness and cartoony qualities. I wonder what Mao would say? Something about co-option of grand national symbols through rightist bourgeoisie imperialism or something.
What's really wierd is that the "Friendlies" are just a rip off of the Japanese mascots from Nagano 98. They were four snow owls, where the first syllables of each of their names combined to make the phrase "let's snow"
They should've just put 孔夫子 up there wih his kick ass beard and let everyone fear his majesty.
Well, that is one thing that China is especially good at these days, ripping things off. Yeah, Confucious (those are those Chinese characters for those who aren't special enough to be able to read them, haha) would be cool.
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