Monday, May 12, 2008
How to advocate "Made in China"
By Jeremiah Carvalro
"Let us act quickly, Tibet is dying" scandent they say. Advocacy has become a real way since the beginning of the trail of the "torch" Olympic. Even the organization Reporters Without Borders has gone from denouncing passive activism. All these banners, flags and banners have been in the shadow of the struggle of human rights much more than they have sustained.
This is the ridiculous 100% cotton "Made in China" this mode which is sinking the credibility of this cause. The citizen who fate in the streets full of good intentions, inflated by media coverage and slogans that are raining everywhere should realize that even if brandished posters "Free Tibet" or the Tibetan flag, his clothes bear probably oppressor country to which he must oppose.
Advocacy becomes a naive opposition, which can not be taken seriously and which retains only the clumsiness and misbehaviour of a major speech yet. It is still not an easy task to be aware when we faced the silence of our big men policy. If these details elude us, the economy is largely taken into account in such political contradictions.
This is what I affectionately hypocrisy market, shouted by a silence political than ever before. It will be used to criticize and punish the Russian government, African, or all of these bloody regimes such as Zimbabwe, but face the economic power of the People's Republic of China, major politicians seem to forget human rights, freedom expression and these values which they both boast of being the defence.
When one takes into account the heavy past Olympics, it is ridiculous that some claim loud and clear that sport should not be politicized. Stop lying to you, it always has been. The best example is the Games of Moscow that a fifty countries had boycotted to denounce the invasion of Afghanistan. But South Africa is the economic boycott which was less grand, or our political beliefs of the time who were stronger?
This silence political replongera Games in the dark days of the Games of 1936. Do you remember? The nations were paraded one after the other to cover prestigious Berlin and the now famous Adolf Hitler.
Nicolas Sarkozy is the only head of state to consider a boycott of the opening ceremony of the Games. Its participation will depend on the attitude of the Chinese government faces a dialogue with the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Yet the primary issue was freedom of expression and human rights in China that the organization Reporters Without Borders denounced the past few years. But the Tibetan cause, rather than become a symbol, has rather overshadowed. No wonder that Western society, plunged into materialism up to the neck, taken in an existential vacuum in search of a god feel more concerned by the repression that live the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. Meanwhile, the Chinese live the same repression but are not entitled to the same cries nor the same banners.
If not able to reverse the repression, we should first be honest. It's been seven years since we know the choice of the International Olympic Committee to name China as the host of 2008 Olympic Games. It's been decades that we know the repressive system that prevails on the People's Republic, but it is at midnight least one that we insurgeons as if it were a new one. But it's too little too late. Assume it, we are the oppressor!
Labels: China, Jérémie Carvalro, Reporters without borders, Sports
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