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I live in a tiny, mysterious third-world country that is very far away and filled with meat golems. It is called 'Colorado'. -- Tjames Madison
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Here's some more guys who are real mad about China, except
it seems to be Americans this time. Those Chinese guys are
real bad, I think.
So there is this amusement park in Orlando, Florida, right next to the Disney
World, called Splendid China,
and what it is like is if there were a Disneyland that had no rides or anything
except painstakingly detailed reproductions of famous historical architecture
from China in smaller scale, using tricks of perspective so that when you walk
up to, say, the
Great Wall of China, it basically looks like the Great Wall
of China, unless of course there are tourists standing next to it, in which
case it looks like the Great Wall of China with colorfully dressed
100-foot-tall humans about to smash into it hurly-burly.
But! These! Guys! who are called the "Citizens Against Communist Chinese
Propaganda" are REAL mad at Splendid China, despite the park's exquisitely
crafted miniatures and Free Dinner Special
featuring Acrobats. Because while they were building all this cool Chinese
stuff to look at and take pictures of after you shoo everybody out of the shot
so you can try to fool people into thinking you actually went to China instead
of Orlando, they also built reproductions of things like the Dalai Lama's
Palace and some Mongolian stuff and called it Chinese and made it sound like
the Dalai Lama was real happy to be Chinese, which of course he is not. He is
really angry about that part.
Also, they built a reconstruction of a famous Turkestan tomb of an anti-Chinese
patriot and renamed it to honor some other Chinese hero. So this CACCP group
is really upset about China. And they have big protests there all the time and
chain themselves to the Dalai Lama's palace and such.
But I hear senior citizens really enjoy Splendid China because it's a good
place to walk, and then you see some acrobats and eat food. Also there are
tiger shows.
I wonder about this CACCP group, though, because they are mostly Americans who
are involved. I guess I'm just skeptical about things I should be all
touchy-feely about, but if you're going to get mad about this bad China
amusement park, shouldn't we also get mad about amusement parks that have wacky, domesticated Indians
and comically
obese plantation slaves who are also darn good cooks?
I mean, I don't know the answer. Probably those CACCP guys are right and China
is really bad and should stop doing bad things. But that free acrobat dinner
looks mighty tasty!
Check it out yourself
tablesalt@pigdog.org
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