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[quote=GUEST07638,355409]Graffiti is an art form with an extremely long and colored history.  It has been going on in China since around 2,000 B.C. when the government began writing messages they wanted to convey to the public on walls.  An act of graffiti on an at that time legal graffiti wall, the Democracy Wall, set off the Tianamen square incident.  Western style graffiti in China just arrived with hip-hop music in 1998.  Right now there are not many graff writers in China, because it is still very new and there is not the same cultural and historical context in China to cause the explosive growth that fierce competition among graffiti writers in USA and Europe produced.  To say graffiti is unsightly I think is to not take into consideration all that is graffiti.  I would much rather see a incredibly skillfully and diligently painted piece of art on a wall than soot and rust stains.  Graffiti is not synonymous with criminals and other undesirables.  It is a product of street culture coming from those who had nothing and were given no opportunities in society starting a cultural product they could be proud off.  It is a caliming of self identity and a desire to have something in life they could call their own and become proud off.  It is just because America had been doing such a good job of sweeping the abused and mistreated of the city under a rug that they became very upset when the invisible people started making their mark.  Graffiti hasn't begun in China, it has been going on for thousands of years, they have just begun to adopt some of the aesthetic style of the West. It is not something to lament in my view when you see youth from a culture which tends to belittle the individual, artistic expression, and public discourse taking action to claim them.  Thank you.
(I am currently doing a research project on graffiti in China.  There is alot of graffiti that is not for the olympics, and alot of pieces that are better than you examples.)[/quote]

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