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Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere

Posted By: Barry Silliman
Date: Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:40 p.m.

In Response To: Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere (Bill Riles)

There are certain things you can accomplish in the Olympics when you have a nation of 1.3 billion people and an authoritarian government. If one looks back a couple decades one can find that East Germany, with a population just a fraction of the United States', completed very closely in the medal count with the United States.

For an interesting contrast of cultural attitudes, compare China's medal count to India's medal count, whose population is not far behind China's.

For a mix of the Olympics from a mixture of sports and political viewpoints I'd recommend checking out Washington Post sportswriter Tom Boswell's many columns that he wrote from Beijing. This will get you started: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402520.html

Messages In This Thread

• mental gymnastics over gymnastics
  Chuck Bower -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 6:42 p.m.
  • mental gymnastics over gymnastics
    Tom Keith -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 8:31 p.m.
    • mental gymnastics over gymnastics
      Bob Koca -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 8:41 p.m.
    • mental gymnastics over gymnastics
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:19 p.m.
  • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
    Bill Riles -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:07 p.m.
    • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
      Stick -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:09 p.m.
      • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
        Bob Koca -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:14 p.m.
        • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
          Stick -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:16 p.m.
          • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
            Bill Riles -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:19 p.m.
            • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
              John Little -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 10:34 p.m.
              • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
                Stick -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 10:47 p.m.
              • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
                Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 3:57 p.m.
                • NonPC response
                  happyjuggler0 -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 8:12 p.m.
                  • Ai! A Sociobiologist!
                    mamabear -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 8:51 p.m.
                    • Ai! A Sociobiologist!
                      happyjuggler0 -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 9:11 p.m.
                      • Ai! A Sociobiologist!
                        Barry Silliman -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 11:30 p.m.
    • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
      Barry Silliman -- Monday, 25 August 2008, at 9:40 p.m.
    • Just the Typical Politically Correct Environment Found Everywhere
      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 3:12 p.m.