PenguinSix

I don’t think there was anything wrong with the look of the other little girl at all. She’s very cute. I wouldn’t have thought anything “wrong” with China if they had put this little girl on the stage. I would have thought MUCH better of them than I do right now. I can’t belive that they thought it would be okay to have someone else sing her song because she wasn’t beautiful enough.

I believe that both young girls were exploited for the “glory” of their country. One girl was “used” for her beautiful voice, and the other was “used” for her image. I am strongly disappointed, and I hope that these two young women have family and friends who love them as they are and see their talents and faces as beautiful.

But Yang Peiyi is cute too! What didn’t they find “suitable” about her looks?!

This is absolutely ridiculous! Yang Peiyi is a beautiful child and the media is allowing the further distruction of her self esteem by reporting about how she was not pretty enough to represent China. What a sad state of affairs.

To say that one girl is as cute as the other just in’t true. I don’t think they should have substituted faces, but Lin Miaoke is cuter and that’s a fact.

I can’t believe it that a somebody could do this to a seven year old girl.
Can you imagen how this little girl must have felt to be told she’s not beautyful enough for thr crowd?
That’s how far we are today…….. BEAUTYFUL voice counts less then a “beautyful” face??
And by the way – she’s a very cute 7 year old!!!!
Would have been a way better choice for China to put a cute 7 year old with an amazing voice then a pretty 9 year old which is lip-syncing on stage.
Kinda embarrasing for China!!

Yang Peiyi, i hope you realize that the world says you’re very cute even if a handful of Chinese officials don’t

ridiculous, she is cute with a voice.

I feel sorry for both these girls really. What message is it sending?
…Well it is a message that Hollywood, media and now the music industry, all reflections of the US culture have been sending for years. Don’t hate on China for this, the US is just as wretched when it comes to appearances.
I don’t think we would even nominate an ugly president even though he was totally qualified.

Shame on you China. Yang Peiyi is a very cute little girl. What is this world coming to when a little girls beautiful voice is switched to suit tv veiwers. Its what is on the inside not the out side. Wake up. Let beautiful kids be who they are.

how cruel to tell a little child she was “pretty” enough.
china is as fake as the gucci handbags i see being sold on the streets.

* i meant … not pretty enough.

You’ve got to be kidding, NY_USA. Which of the recent presidential nominees do you find handsome?

Come on, sure China is completely sels serving with this event (as in all things), but you have to admit that Miaoke is cuter.

I was just kidding in that last comment…. didn’t mean to send it.
As far as the controversy over Yang Peiyi, I think what they did to her is awful. It would have been just as moving to see her sing the song as the other little girl. Moreso, because it would have been real.

China tried to be perfectionist like how they portray their communism.. well no one is perfect and you can see what they did to show that their show is perfect… broke the heart of little girl who doesnt even know the world so well. What the hell China was thinking when they said the girl is not pretty. I am sure they didnt wear their glasses.

Lin Hao is GORGEOUS and much cuter than the other one who looks like she has allergies. So her little teeth are crooked. SO WHAT. She’s too young for braces. How sad this story is.

Even though the girls were “exploited,” think about the how the media exploits “the perfect body” image in the U.S. and how lip-syncing has also occurred in the U.S. What was different was China openly did this for the purpose of creating the national image. Yes, it’s wrong but we can’t condemn China because of it. I think that’s just hypocritical since U.S. has done similar things also. In movies, there are actresses that do a body switch in certain scenes or how Ashlee Simpson lip-synced. We should acknowledge that it is wrong but not be over-dramatic about it.

I feel what they did to that little girl is horrible!!! If she good enough to sing that song she should have been good enough to be seen. In this world where girls are supposed to be perfect by someone else’s standard is horrible. If I were that little girl I would take my beautiful face AND beautiful voice and move to country where ALL of her abilities and looks are appreciated!

I am heartbroken for little Yang Peiyi. Yang is darling. Had she had the opportunity to be “the face” of the Beijing Olympics, she would have made her country proud. I agree with other responses. The “image thing” is not soley a Chinese phenomenon. All culture UNFORTUNEATELY have lowered themselves to admiring a manufactured standard of beauty, which does not really include all variations of beautiful. Beauty is not a premade cookie-cutter look, it is varied and diverse. Yang definitely is a beautiful child. I know that giving this message to a child can stay with a person their whole life. How sad that a lovely child like Yang may think of herself as unattractive because of a few uniformed, media crazed, shallow and obviously blind officials.

Lead paint for Christmas, and now this…China sucks.

Just a thought, the Olympic audience should insist on Yang Peiyi being able to perform live at the closing ceremonies!

I think that they shouldn’t have done that to the poor little girl. I think that everyone grows to be pretty.

Tacky, tacky tacky!

I think that the Yang Peiyi is actually cuter but Lin Miaoke looks more like the west’s idea of “pretty”. Either way they should have used the same child’s face and voice. Stupidity at it’s finest.

Both kids have unique, pretty faces. Though Miaoke is more commercially viable, I do not think this is reason enough, for whoever that Chinese Politburo official is, to replace Peiyi – and then use her voice to make it seem as if the other girl was the one singing during the opening ! How sad that China couldn’t see through the outside, and I feel bad that both girls are now dragged into this infamous incident.