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"One World, One Dream": The best phrase ever
Out of 210,00 proposed slogans for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this is the best the event's organizers could come up with: "One World, One Dream." The slogan was announced Sunday during a nationally televised extravaganza at Beijing's Workers Stadium that featured "breakdancers, basketball players performing with a military band, and television celebrities," according to the Associated Press. The slogan replaced the previous "New Beijing, Great Olympics" and, according to state news service Xinhua was decided upon only after many rounds of "selection and revision by experts in fields like Olympics, sociology, sports, culture and language." "The slogan embodies the wisdom of hundreds of thousands of people," Xinhua quoted Liu Qi, President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games, as saying. "It conveys the noble ideal of people in Beijing as well as in China to share their civilization and create a bright future hand in hand with people from the rest of the world." Xinhua also quoted someone named George Hirthler, "who has served as lead writer or communications strategist for seven international Olympic bid campaigns." He said: "While the phrase is simple, it is also profound. While it is personal, it is also universal. The repetition of one makes it easy to remember." The official Beijing 2008 website was even more hyperbolic: "One world, One dream. In the coming years, even for decades to come, the four simple English words will be closely, unmistakably linked to the Summer Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games that Beijing will be hosting in 2008." Shanghaiist doesn't quite get what all the fuss is about. Despite the phrase's likely unintentional imperialist undertones hinting of China's inevitable global domination, "One World, One Dream" just isn't that original. It's been used by fringe political parties, a Christian musician in Australia, a community fundraising company, an 80s power pop band and some lady in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Beijing 2008 Games: One World, One Dream
"One World, One Dream" - for decades to come these four simple words will be unmistakably linked to the 2008 Olympic Games. And they were first uttered in their role as official slogan of the 2008 Games in the capital yesterday. Immediately after the announcement was made by Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, artists from all over the world staged a show for the TV audience and those who had gathered in the Beijing Workers' Indoor Arena, for the announcement. "'One World, One Dream,' is an embodiment of the wisdom of hundreds of thousands of people," Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), said in his address. "It is a slogan that conveys the lofty ideal of people in Beijing as well as in China to share the global community and civilization and to create a bright future hand in hand with people from the rest of the world. "It expresses the firm belief of a great nation, with a long history of 5,000 years and on its way towards modernization, that is committed to peaceful development, a harmonious society and people's happiness," Liu said. Said IOC President Jacques Rogge in a letter to the BOCOG on hearing of the slogan: "The Olympic Games are unique in their ability to attract the world's attention, using sport to promote peace and understanding. "The IOC is delighted that BOCOG's slogan for the 2008 Olympic Games has captured that Olympic spirit." "The slogan sounds very good," said an Italian journalist covering the ceremony. "It conveys the wish of Chinese people to join the world." "Although the slogan is simple, it has rich meaning," said another spectator. "It shows the significance of friendship. Since the Olympic Games is a world sports gala, it builds deeper friendship among all nations." The new slogan shifted the focus from the city itself to the three concepts of the 2008 Games Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics and People's Olympics and the universal values of the Olympic movement. Official interpretation of the slogan "One World One Dream" fully reflects the essence and the universal values of the Olympic spirit - Unity, Friendship, Progress, Harmony, Participation and Dream. It expresses the common wishes of people all over the world, inspired by the Olympic ideals, to strive for a bright future of mankind. In spite of the differences of colour, language and race, we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games, and together we seek the ideal of mankind for peace. We belong to the same world and we share the same aspirations and dreams. "One World One Dream" is a profound manifestation of the core concepts of the Beijing Olympic Games. It reflects the values of harmony connoted in the concept of "People's Olympics", the core and soul of the three concepts - "Green Olympics, High-Tech Olympics and People's Olympics". This pursuit of harmony, be it between man and nature, among peoples, within society and in development, are long cherished dreams of ours. It is our belief that peace and progress, harmonious development, living in amity, co-operation and mutual benefit, and enjoying a happy life are the common aspirations of people throughout the world. "One World, One Dream" is simple in expressions, but profound in meaning. It is of China, and also of the world. It conveys the lofty ideal of the people in Beijing as well as in China to share in a global community and civilization and to create a bright future, hand in hand with the people from the rest of the world. It expresses the firm belief of a great nation, with a long history of 5,000 years and on its way towards modernization, that is committed to peaceful development, a harmonious society and people's happiness. It voices the aspirations of 1.3 billion Chinese people to contribute to the establishment of a peaceful and bright world. The English translation of the slogan is distinctive in sentence structure. The two "one"s are perfectly used in parallel, and the words "World"and "Dream" form a good match. The slogan is simple, meaningful, inspiring, and easy to remember, read and spread. In Chinese, the word "tongyi", which means "the same", is used for the English word "One". It highlights the theme that "all Mankind lives in the same world and seeks for the same dream and ideal".
White Box Art Center presents “One World, One Dream” exploring Wang Qingsong’s creation journey in last decade
As a celebrated contemporary artist, Wang Qingsong is highly appreciated at home and abroad. It has been 30 years for him to be engaged in the artistic creation since 1980s, participating in momentous academic exhibition in China as well as the world and was widely recognized. “One World, One Dream” exhibition is curated by SUE KIM, managing director of White Box Art Center, and this is the first large scale solo exhibition that she has taken charge after joining in the team. It was also the slogan of The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that had caused the prominent changes and strikingly speeded up the internationalization, which is known to all. In the mean time, other countries and areas around the world are striving together for the unity, such as Juntos num sóritmo as the slogan of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. Named as One World, One Dream, Wang’s new work will be created in the exhibition hall in White Box Art Center, which writes the logo and titles of The Fortune Global 500 and top 500 world universities on the huge blackboard. This is to illustrate how the international integration is intensifying and the individual pursuing is happening as well as to raise concern. There are a variety of contradiction existing, reminding all of us of understanding the world from a prudent perspective. For example, circumstances and aspiration experiencing by people around the world, economic development and spiritual deprivation, national essence and cosmopolitan horizon, age-difference in individual, dream and reality, etc. Additionally, 5 pieces of photograph and sculptural installation works of Wang’s in recent decade that share the same criticalness will also be presented this time. He pays close attention to various issues among this changing society. For instance, Baggage was a sculpture created specifically for The 2008 Shanghai Biennial. It consisted of different kinds of baggages made of copper, warning people of the instability as a movable individual. In fact, Wang has never been diverted from his own style since 1980s, and till recent 30 years he was still keeping a close eye on issues like the humanity aspiration, faith deprivation, culture interruption, history tracing and regulation re-establishment. All of these problems revealed gradually after the Chinese economic reform, when the national emphasis is put on the economic drastic growth, and this situation was severer in the post-Olympic era. One World, One Dream will present Wang’s creation journey in last decade with several representative works and it will last until August 3, 2014.
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1 The fire races up a spiral and bursts into the great flame of the Olympic Torch standing at the head of the stadium. “One World, One Dream.” The 29th Olympiad is open.
2 One World, One Dream. Billions of people around the world dream of a world without wars, without hunger and poverty, without cruel and oppressive divisions among people.
3 One World, One Dream represents the desire to put aside all of our differences for a period of time and enjoy the celebration of country and achievement.