(Separately posted to soc.culture.china, soc.culture.korean,
soc.culture.japan, soc.culture.singapore, soc.culture.taiwan)

Posters may be interested in this commentary from a "white-
nationalist" American figure on the Olympics (needs appropriate plug-
in; MP3 format):

http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/dukeradio080824.mp3

Transcript attached below.

My random and disjointed feedback:

(1) Quote: "Every performer [in the Olympics] was Chinese." - I
didn't watch the whole opening, just bits and pieces of it, but it
seems there was a part where there was a token celebration of China's
ethnic minorities carrying the flag or something - perhaps a gesture
of "One World, One Dream" (as opposed to, oh, say, the equally if not
more appropriate motto "China's Dream, One China")?
(2) Quote: "China is the most populous nation on earth with 1.3
billion. It is practically all Chinese." Depends on how Chinese is
defined - it's "only" 91%% Han last time I checked. This contrasts with
*real* nation states like Japan where it's 98.5%% Japanese and South
Korea where it's practically 100%% "pure" Korean
(3) I know more than one of my relatives missed the US' Olympic
athletes' parade entrance because it looked so similar to just another
one from Africa
(4) Some time ago someone here on newsgroups wrote how he's hopping up
and down with ecstasy that Obama may be the next prez of the US in his
lifetime. I presciently (ahem) replied that China will not have a
black prez in *its* lifetime.

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Transcript:
China, the Olympics, and a man named Obama running for President of
the United States!
An Updated Commentary by David Duke

I watched the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing. It was amazing,
but not just for its heroic scale and artistic beauty. It was amazing
because it was an unabashed celebration of Chinese history, culture
heritage and indeed of the Chinese people in their unique expression
of humanity. The games were an eloquent statement of their identity.

As the camera panned out across the Olympic field and there were
thousands of Chinese dancers and singers celebrating their Chinese-
ness. That’s a new word and a tough one to say.

Among the tens of thousands of performers I did not see any European
faces or for that matter any black faces anywhere on the field. Every
performer was Chinese. Everyone had a distinctive Asian fold in the
corners of their eyes. China to the Chinese means a lot more than
simply the collection of races or peoples that live in the
geographical area of China. It means to them, the unique traits and
character of the Chinese people and not just the people that reside
within the political boundaries of China.

China is the most populous nation on earth with 1.3 billion. It is
practically all Chinese. Hong Kong, even when it was independent was
considered a “Chinese” city. The Chinese have a clear understanding of
what China is. To them it is a nation of Chinese people with Chinese
identity, history, culture, tradition character and dare I say it: The
genetic underpinning of it all — the unique character of their DNA
that gives them their appearance, their talents and their underlying
nature.

The Chinese are free from the overwhelming media propaganda that
pervades the Western world and are free from a specific ethnocentric
group that dominates the American media and has inordinate influence
on Western governments. They are not saturated with propaganda
intended to make them feel guilty for being Chinese.

American guilt and self-loathing are typified by the reaction to
former President Clinton’s June 13, 1998 speech that he made at
Portland State University. He praised the new diversity in America and
he spoke optimistically of the time when European Americans will
become a minority in the country our own forefathers established. Here
is what he said:

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“But now we are being tested again — by a new wave of immigration
larger than any in a century, far more diverse than any in our
history…
Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in
Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no
majority race in our largest state, California. In a little more than
50 years there will be no majority race in the United States.
(Applause.) No other nation in history has gone through demographic
change of this magnitude in so short a time.”(Applause)
- - - - -

In actual fact, the most recent figures say that Europeans will become
a minority in America in far less time than that. How propagandized
and sick our people have become. In Portland, Oregon the
overwhelmingly White student audience applauded the demise of their
own people. Could one imagine Afro-Americans in Atlanta applauding a
remark that African-Americans there would soon become a minority?
Could anyone in his wildest imagination, picture thousands of Chinese
celebrating their own demise as a people in their own country?

They know that if non-Chinese elements migrate or breed their way to
dominance in some China provinces that it will ultimately result in
conflict, and perhaps eventually to terrorism and civil war. That’s
why even though there are some border areas of China where there are
people of different ethnic origin, the government has consciously
promoted massive Chinese immigration into those areas. They want one
nation and they have consciously thought about their future and what
will happen if non-Chinese minorities grow in great number.

That’s precisely the root of what’s happening in Tibet. Obviously
massive Chinese immigration into Tibet is catastrophic for the Tibetan
people and for their unique heritage, religion, culture and freedom.
When another identifiable group with their own will to power becomes a
majority in the country the indigenous people will be controlled by
them. That should be obvious to anyone. It is demographics 101. The
Chinese do fundamentally what they see as good for their own people,
and so do the Tibetan people. Such behavior about the welfare of your
own people is normal for most of the world, but of course, not
permitted for the European people. It is the most natural thing in the
world. Every expression of life on the planet seeks to preserve
itself, except that now, seemingly Europeans and Americans don’t.

Of course, it wasn’t always like that. Up until 1965, the American
people and the American government consciously wanted to preserve the
heritage of European Americans, and they had immigration quota systems
so the demographic composition would be preserved. It was far less
racial nationalist than the policies of China or most of the non-
European world today. For instance the Chinese are obviously not
trying to maintain the status quo in regard to non-Chinese minorities;
they are trying to “Chinafy” every square kilometer of China. That’s
why the Tibetan people are in trouble, and here is where I part ways
with Chinese thinking. The Tibetan nation and people should survive.
The Chinese people also have that right and all peoples should have
that right.

The question to me is whether the Chinese have to wipe out Tibet to
survive. Obviously, they don’t. At the same time I obviously don’t
think we should go to war with China over Tibet. But, there are many
economic and other policies that can be used to help encourage nations
to respect the rights of others and I believe we should use those
influences to help the Tibetans survive in their culture and their
heritage.

The Olympic Games have people of all races present from all corners of
the world. It’s about peoples and nations competing together in a
spirit of fairness and friendship, but it is not a celebration of the
homogeneity of mankind. It is actually a celebration of Mankind’s
diversity. This rich cultural and physical diversity exists because of
ancient ethnic separations that created the different races in the
first place, and it gave them their distinctions and character. Race
is a product of geographic separation for thousands of years.
Evolution is only possible, not just on the level of the individual
but it also must occur on the level of the gene pool. Every bit of
mankind’s progress on the evolutionary scale came about in the
survival of a specific population that carried forth favorable genetic
factors.

The carrier of the American Flag for the United States at this
Olympics is Lopez Lomong, an immigrant from Africa. The main flag
bearer for China was Yao Ming. Yao Ming does not’t live in China. In
fact, to them it doesn’t matter where he lives, the essential factor
is that Ming is Chinese. Having a European or an African carry the
Chinese flag would be simply unthinkable.

For the last 2000 years up until just 40 years ago, almost any
cultural function in Europe, a public performance or concert, or fair,
or sporting event or political rally — would have been an all-European
version of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Chinese Olympics.
Europe was for all practical purposes all White. Even in America,
although there was an historically small minority of Africans and an
even smaller minority of Mexicans and Asians, each race had its own
expression and lived in its own community. America was deemed a white
nation as typified by every White president, by the fact that every
signer of the Declaration of Independence and author of the
Constitution was of European descent.

All that’s changed in the blink of an eye, historically and the change
accelerates with each passing day. The racial expression of America
was perhaps just 40 years ago typified by Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
Not Lopez Lomong or Marion Jones. Marion Jones is the disgraced and
imprisoned gold medalist, who is perhaps America’s most famous Olympic
Athlete.

America may soon have a president with the unlikely name of Barack
Hussein Obama, a man who for the past 20 years was a leading member of
a church that condemned America weekly from the pulpit and proclaimed
its loyalty to Africa. On the other side, John McCain is a man who
supported open borders and amnesty and made his own private effort to
change American demographics with an adoption from Bangladesh. Of
course, Obama and McCain have both reaffirmed their commitment to
Israel as a Jewish state and sworn to send American boys and American
gold to fight endless wars for Israel. But both McCain and Obama would
never even acknowledge the fact that our people of European descent in
both Europe and America have a fundamental right to survive and to
have a government and culture that reflects our own values,
traditions, culture and identity.

The Chinese who run their own media and their own government would
never put someone in power, who was opposed to the rights of the
Chinese to survive and thrive. That goes without saying, and that’s
the difference between China and the European and American nations.

China has 1.3 billion people. It’s all Chinese. In Europe and America
as well as all other nations with significant White presence such as
Australia and New Zealand and in South American nations, the White
demographic shrinks ever more rapidly.

Unless we begin to think more like the Chinese and less like the
Hollywood and New York axis of media want us to think, we, the race of
Shakespeare and Newton, of Michaelangelo and DaVinci, of Shockley and
Watson, of Washington and Jefferson, Elizabeth and Victoria, will be
wiped off the face of the Earth. The people that have led the world in
science, medicine, exploration, and given unsurpassed beauty and
artistic expression to the Earth, and who have actually put the
footprints of mankind on the moon, will pass to oblivion.

It seems strange that I must use the Olympics in China to explain to
our own people, why they have a right to live, a right to go on in
their unique and beautiful expression.

It is my deep belief that our people will awaken to the abyss before
them.

Sometimes it takes showing the realities of race in other countries
for us to see objectively the crisis in our own nation.

Pointing out the realities of China and the Chinese Olympics can do
that. Another thing that should do that is the catastrophic lack of
choice in the American election for president. What a contrast, the
unabashed celebration of Chinese-ness at the Beijing Olympics, and the
two enemies of our European American heritage who vie for President of
the United States.

Thank you for being with me, and for having the ability to think
independently.