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08/17/2008: "Han Chinese masquerade as ethnic minorities to suggest diversity"

As they paraded cheerfully into the Bird's Nest stadium in their brightly coloured cultural costumes, the 56 smiling children were described as coming from China’s 56 ethnic groups.

Their different hats, dresses and robes may indeed have represented the diversity of the world's most populous nation. But an official from the children's dance troupe revealed yesterday that the youngsters did not.

There were no Uighurs, no Zhuangs, no Huis, no Tujias, no Mongols and definitely no Tibetans. Indeed, in the latest in a series of manipulations that have soured memories of the spectacular opening ceremony, all 56 were revealed to be Han Chinese, who make up more than 90 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion people.

[ That's wonderful don't you think? Ha ha. But unfortunately no one dressed up as a European or a negro - only East Asians. ]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4540907.ece

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on Saturday, August 23rd, crusader651 said

this sounds like an accusation from a racist site,

if they wanted to have each ethnics in china represented they would have to 'select' the children.

yet this certainly show the han's supremacy. what does this site stand for? in the same way that it promotes black nationalism and seperatism it doesn't talk about natural domination of another's ethnic group. through economic performance and reproduction, how will the strongest prevail?