| bosenk_batak20:17 UTC08 Jul 2007 | just courious, beside the vote result over millions people arround the globe. I keep wondering why can't BOROBUDUR included as one of the seven wonder in the world?? Even the International UNESCO had already claims that they dont really "comfortable" with the new seven selected this weeks. Just wish to get the reason why, thanks for your response then..
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| bassman108:55 UTC09 Jul 2007 | Borobodur... How about Angkor!?!? That was left out too. This whole thing seems to be the Archaelogical equivolant of American Idol.
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| redape17:53 UTC09 Jul 2007 | Exactly, it was a popularity contest and there were a) more Chinese than Cambodians and Indonesians voting, b) a major push to get a big kitsch statue of Jesus in the list (IMHO it's not the statue but the view or Sugagrloaf that makes Christ the Redeemer even remotely interesting. I suspect that the same is true of at least one other site on the list.
And the Statue of Liberty? Why is it a "wonder"? Maybe because such a thing would ever be put up in such a xenophobic country?
But if Indonesia did a better job promoting Borobodur and tourism in Indonesia ~ i.e. making it easier to visit the site (starting with getting into the country) then it might have been a bit higher on the list. In addition, Indonesia seems a bit fearful of promoting Hindu/Buddhist cultural elements too much outside of Bali...
But either Angkor or Borobodur certainly deserved to be on the list. And I would have thought that the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul would have made it...it's still the largest free standing domed structure in the world I believe...at least withoute superstructure.
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| bosenk_batak22:08 UTC09 Jul 2007 | Yupe, agree with #2 about BORUBUDUR.
Wish the the total number of Indonesian population(more than 200millions) should give the vote for Borobudur... LOL
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| newtrancher12:06 UTC13 Jul 2007 | Ape, can you tell me of a non xenophobic country?
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| marinmafia18:16 UTC21 Jul 2007 | I totally agree with comparisons made to American Idol (or Indonesian Idol for that matter!) and a popularity contest. The whole thing is a promotional ploy.
I avoided even reading about this blatant exercise in propaganda. Who came up with this idea? The tour and travel industry as based where and for what reason? It sounds like one big, trumped up marketing survey. The love of superlatives is never ending.
Speaking of superlatives and in response to Red Ape's barb against America, I would only expand his statement by saying Americans tend to see themselves as "superior and the greatest." (Such is the alternate code symbolized in the Statue of Liberty) Self-inflated visions make for the flip side of xenophobia.
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