Tag: China

Just saw the uproar created by Pete Hoekstra over his commercial featuring an Asian woman with broken English.

Take a look and then see my comments.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQAalcsg5E
 

The first thing I would like to point out is that this woman is a fake!

Being a language student, an English teacher AND having lived for 5 years in Asia I recognize the following.  Her English accent is too good to make simple grammatical mistakes as she has.   She forgets to put the plural “s” on the word “get,” yet she remembers to put it on the word “jobs.”  She is obviously not from China.

Recent comments by Chinese premier and media darling Wen Jiabao have made waves in the China observing community. On a recent trip to Shenzhen, the city where Deng Xiaoping announced his great economic reforms, Wen said: “We need not only to promote economic reform, but must also promote political system reforms. Without the guarantee provided by political system reforms, the results of economic reform will be lost, and the goal of modernization cannot be achieved.”