BBC2 - Please Vote for Me

Forgot to define the link again hehe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=yesterday&service_id=4224&filename=20071010/20071010_2320_4224_14130_55

Here's a short clip from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwARnU2xrao

Thanks, Bazza :) Quite a remarkable clip.

I second the Doc. Good one.

I read the article about this last week at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7030725.stm and came away with a different conclusion. There's manipulation and bribery, and that's how the winner won.

I didn't know that the character 正 is used to count things like votes, every stroke is 1 and 1 character is 5. So 正正正 is 15. :)

This will be showing tonight at 21h10 central European Time on BBC World. I'm not sure I'll be able to see it, but would love to as it looks really interesting. Here is the trailer, which I found over on Youtube:

I didn't realise we could post Youtube clip, I'm sure I tried before it didn't work.

The why democracy initiative looks impressive. I haven't yet gotten my head around their motives. Maybe, I am a bit too sceptic and always have the old "Cui bono?" in mind. Strangely, I just saw a book asking if democracy becomes unjust in the face of globalisation.

I wonder if this video is really in favor of democracy. It only shows the drifts not the useful return. One of the children even speaks of the danger to bring dictatorship at the head of the class. Where does it come from ???