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There was an olympics in Beijing. So holding the olympics committee to some democratic standard probably won't work.
by runn1ng 13y ago
There was an olympics in Beijing. So holding the olympics committee to some democratic standard probably won't work.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoBeijing sometimes romanized as Peking I didn't know that...
- runn1ng 13y agoSorry, it is written like that in my language and I didn't realize it's wrong in English; I corrected that
- tehwalrus 13y agoThe only time I've heard it used in English recently is at Chinese restaurants, where the popular dish is still called "Peking Duck". Beijing is much closer to the Mandarin pronouciation, bei3 jing1, meaning "north capital." (there is also a Nanjing, "south capital.")
- yareally 13y agoSimilar to Beijing, Nanjing was once pronounced as "Nanking" in the West. Some historical events, such as the Nanking Incident[1], still reference that pronunciation to avoid confusion. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident
- yareally 13y agoBoth names have been correct at some point in history. In some areas, both are still used, depending on whom one asks and who is doing the naming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/11/chinese_transliteration http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/11/chinese_trans...
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoNo need to apologise! I learnt something
- tehwalrus 13y agoChina doesn't have civil rights laws to protect homosexuals, but it has made it explicitly legal (1997), and removed it from lists of "mental illnesses" (2001)[1]. I'm aware it isn't a democracy, but it doesn't appear to sanction official discrimination in the same way as Russia on this issue. If you look at the rest of [1], you'll see it also has a long history of (debatable) tolerance for homosexuality. (I am aware that is has a significantly different attitude to race than the UK and US, and I'm not sure I'm happy with it, but again I haven't heard of examples of official persecution, or police turning blind eyes to attacks on such minority groups.) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China#People.27s_Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China#People.2...
- guard-of-terra 13y agoRussia made it explicitly legal around 1992, after the fall of USSR.
- hedgie13 13y agoIn 1993, 10 years before US.