Olympics '08: China Moves to Improve Manners

OLYPlusSelectPlusSportsOlympics '08: China Moves to Improve MannersOlympics '08: China Moves to Improve MannersThe Associated PressThe Chinese government is urging citizens to improve their manners ahead of the Olympic games, when thousands of visitors will flood the country. (July 31)nat pop in chinese) IT'S THE MANDARIN WAY OF SAYING"welcome to beijing"CHANCES ARE IF YOU'RE AN OLYMPIC SPECTATOR THESE YOUNG FACES WILL BE THE FIRST ONES WELCOMING YOU....AS BEIJING GEARS UP FOR THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EXPECTED TO TURN OUT FOR THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAME, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND OLYMPIC VOLUNTEERS ARE READY AND EAGER TO GREET VISITORS AND BRUSH UP ON SOME OF THEIR ENGLISH SOT we try to say hello have a nice day or something like thatSOT welcome excuse me can I help you it's like thisBUT THEY'RE NOT JUST PART OF THE BEIJING WELCOME WAGON, CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT BEIJING IS A CITY THAT SPEAKS VERY LITTLE ENGLISH, THE VOLUNTEERS CAN VITALLY IMPORTANT IN HELPING FOREIGNERS SOT here is information service emergenyc service and translation service(MICHAEL FIALA) they're the face of the games and they make the first impression on anyone that comes in(STANDUP) "chinese people haven't always been known to have the best manners, but since Beijing won the Olympic bid that's something the Chinese government is working dilligently to change"FROM NOSE PICKING, TO SPITTING ON PUBLIC STREETS, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN TO STOP SUCH BEHAVIOR....OFFICIALS HAVE EVEN GIVEN PEOPLE SOME CONVERSATIONAL TIPS (SOT translated from Mandarin) "they also know when they have talks with foreign friends they should not ask them how much their income is, how old they are, or whether they are married or not."BUT THE PEOPLE HERE SAY CHINESE MANNERS HAVE COME A LONG WAYSOT "china is not....has changed a lot in the 15 years and beijing is very beautiful"AND THEY PLAN TO SHOW OFF THEIR NEWLY REVAMPED CITY AND HOSPITALITY IN THE DAYS AHEAD.....IN BEIJING CHINA, BONNY GHOSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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[kamatarisama44]

I'm european but I have a brain and I can see when media try to wash your brain with propaganda and preconceptions and racism, ok? Chinese history and civilization deserves respect and China is trying to recover from the troubles of the begining of the last century. Every country in the world had in the past the problems that china is having today... so please stop etnocentrism and stupid arrogance

[calculussuckshell]

what the fuck? Chinese people dont have the best manners? Americans do?

shit, shut the fuck up press, get a life

[Gondonr]

Young british chavs spit all the time too. I can't stand it anywhere. When I see people spit I just wanna stab them in their face with a rusty +1 dagger.

[nihonjinonnanochitsu]

@forgottenmemories63 FUCKN PIG CHINKS PICK THEIR NOSES ALL THE TIME AT MY WORK.. SAME WITH THE FUCKN BOATS=V,KONG

[forgottenmemories63]

This makes me laugh. Whats the point in changing your manners to suit Western standards if that's how you lived your whole life and that's how your whole people lived their whole lives.

Hell, I wouldn't change for anyone, I'm just me, If you don't like me well screw you lol. Western people will never understand the Asian way of life and we need not imitate theirs, we are better of being ourselves.

[coltec111]

ah, what special images catched by western excellent journalists. they are really the most excellent shit seekers.

[romanpr1nce]

bai chi do hor du sho wai ji no hi ni lang fo chi po li.

[obsidianstatue]

my be i should call on Confucius to spank some ill-mannered western asses.

[darrendelong]

Thanks to the years of Mao's Cultural Revolution has made chinese more uncultured than the post-communist era.

[DaFawky]

@calculussuckshell Of course Americans do. We're American.

if people truly act like that all the time in China then they really don't have good manners, and that's obvious if their government really thinks it's a problem.

Everyday people don't do that here in America except the spitting thing..

[dirx103]

1:03 dude get a crowbar lol he is really trying to get it out rofl