Should the Super Voice Girls be Olympic torch-bearers

I’ve had about all that i can take of torch-bearers and Olympics stuff, but this news item caught my eye: it seems that Chinese netizens have been busy debating whether or not Super Voice Girl celebs like Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying (my personal favorite, the only cutie in the bunch) and He Jie are fit to be torch-bearers. The pro/con arguments are not hard to guess; this article focuses more on the “con” side of it, at least as netizens have argued it. The gist is that these are merely entertainers that are famous for being famous, and maintain that fame with celebrity scandals and the like, whereas the honor of being a torch-bearer has been thus far given to model workers, people of high moral caliber, elites and leaders in various industries and professions, i.e. the kind of people that you would take home to meet your mother.

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