Update: The news on Peiyi Yang and Miaoke Lin are all removed. I just hope they are really protecting the children, not themselves. Though 80% I may be wrong.
(Picture via Baidu.com, Miaoke Lin and Peiyi Yang)
It's the best time, it's the worst time. When I was told that Miaoke Lin(aka 林妙可) did NOT really sing the song in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, I was shocked. I was strongly shocked. It was sang by another 7 year old girl, Peiyi Yang(aka 杨沛宜) I want to say something. Though I really love Olympic Games and I am watching almost every match of China, I have to write this post.
The first time I heard about "hypocrisy" was in 2000, when I was a high school student. In that year, Lun came back to China and stayed in my place in Wuhan.
One day, we were talking in my room. He told me that many westerners thought quite a few Chinese are hypocrisy. Though growing up in Austraila, Lun really speaks good Mandarin and knows many Chinese phrases. However, that day he's just wondering what was "hypocrisy" in Chinese (language). So I looked it in my dictionary and found it. There is, of course, a word(伪善,Wei Shan) in Chinese for "hypocrisy".
I was not so sure about that, but as soon as I started my college life, I'm afraid "hypocrisy" could possibly be around me.
The situation in a university is totally different from that in high school. The people and relationships are like wheels within wheels. Some people don't like to tell the truth, especially about themselves.
Almost everyone was saying, he's poor, he's just earning his living. Or someone would tell you that it's too difficult for him to learn Calculus. Or even lots of people would pretend to be paying a lot of attention to someone needing help. But on the contrary, The guy who said he's poor was driving a car to the dorm. The guy who said he's doing bad in Calculus got great score in the final exams. Those who "paid" a lot of attention to someone just forgot what they were talking about in the next day.
I was really confused that why everyone's pretending to be so weak, so poor. Though I was not a rich guy, I never said I was poor. Though I just did normally in the exams, I never said it's that hard to learn something.
As for those talking in that way, I didn't think that's a lack of confidence.
Maybe the word "hypocrisy" can somehow explain it. Maybe that's just a formed culture around us, which makes everyone think it is not so hypocrisy. That's a little weird, but that's really the truth.
I hope we can be actually better inside, not just as being looked outside.
