Bold Blue America

Last night during the opening ceremonies of the olympics they were showing a long parade of the athletes of each participating country. When a country came out of the doorway there was this diamond window on the side that would show a map of of the world and then it would zoom in on the featured country and it would be filled in with blue, but what didn't make sense was that when they showed the world map the United States was always filled in with blue. I wonder why America was always filled in blue, if they were to show Canada filled in with blue that would make sense because they're the host nation but instead it was the U.S., it might've had something to do with NBC being an american company, some people might view this as racist. I thought the rest of what I saw of the opening ceremony was pretty boring. When I was young the opening ceremonies for the Sydney olympics they had people that drink some liquid and then they would breathe fire and I thought it was the awesomest thing ever. This year all I saw was some fiddlers and dancers and some kid pretending to run on this holographic field and then was flying around with some harnesses, it was probably pretty cool from the audience's point of view but it wasn't cinematic at all.