I am sad to announce that Angkor Wat is not the new “Seven Wonders of the World,” as the online campaign, Bernard Weber determined.
Like earlier attempts, which is seven wonders name, this is a serious wrong and arbitrary. The new method is based on the electronic voting via the Internet and mobile phone text messages based votes.
The new seven wonders of the world were on 7 Announced in July 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal occupied a prominent ceremony on television in over 170 countries to an estimated first 6 billion viewers. The winners are:
* The Great Wall of China
* India’s Taj Mahal
* Ancient City of Petra Jordan
* Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru
* Brazil statue of Christ the Redeemer
* Mexico Chichen Itza pyramid
* Italy Colosseum
Of these, only the Great Wall, which is over 4,000 miles and is the only artificial structure visible from space, clearly on the list.
Since many of the 100 million votes were from Latin America, it is not surprising that Machu Picchu in Peru, Brazil statue of Christ the Redeemer, and Chichen Itza in Mexico made the list.
It is difficult to understand how one of these sites Angkor Wat is placed on a fair and objective selection process. For example, is 100 feet of Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil only 75 years old and only took 10 years to build. In contrast, includes Angkor Wat, the largest religious temple in the world, more than 800 years old and over 200 hectares.
The vote was a vote for the users free of charge and a charge for the extra votes. In Brazil, there was a campaign “No” vote Cristo (Vote for Christ), which had the support of telecommunications companies in the country must Brazilian free SMS votes. The “Vote for Christ” slogan, which is shown on stickers in North America seems to call on their religious faith as the statue vote architectural qualities. As a Christian, I do not think you are hard pressed to vote for Christ.
Previous attempts to name the Seven Wonders were in favor of the Greco-Roman structures. The Great Pyramid of Giza has been withdrawn from the ballot, was honored but as “Honorary candidate,” the Egyptian “insurrection wanted their site are automatically recorded, instead of voting. As if the vote’s credibility was not undermined by its own dubious methodology and results actually there are eight wonders on the list of the seven counts honor of the Pyramids “status.
Perhaps we should consider a similar demand Cambodians honor for Angkor Wat and dwarfs, because obviously many of the current selection in size, architectural splendor and sophistication. In fact, if there are eight “miracle” on the list of seven is something going on with under nine, ten or even twenty?
I have had doubts about the mood of the beginning, because Cambodia has a population of only 14 million compared with 522 million in Latin America and in more than one billion euros each in China and India. In addition, access is very limited and expensive in Cambodia. For instance, unlimited broadband access costs about $ 900 per month, no trivial sum by the standards, but an astronomical sum in a country whose per capita income of less than $ 400 per year. The Internet is largely limited to foreigners and English-speaking Cambodians Internet cafes charging hourly fees users.
Despite the small population of Cambodia and very limited access to Internet, I thought those problems would not Angkor Wat of the seven wonders of the world lijst the number of Asian tourists, who have given years are moose visited Angkor. It turned out that while the world’s two most populous countries, China and India had both its sites, the Great Wall and the Taj Mahal or selected, most Asians do not vote as a united bloc.
While the selection of the “New Seven Wonders” is trivial and worthless from a scientific point of view, could cause the enormous feeling surrounding this absurd venture to serious and far-reaching consequences. Cambodia, a poor country still has decades of civil war and genocide, heavily dependent on tourism revenues for his recovery. Apart from the fact an insult to all Cambodians, the marginalization of Angkor gnaw produced in the much-needed dollars cultural tourism in the country.
Although the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has (UNESCO), the global organization responsible for monitoring born of the restoration of world cultural heritage, strongly rejected the Swiss Bernard Weber project and said it was “only the opinions of those who have access to Internet, have “the massive fanfare by the campaign was public confusion about who the real Seven Wonders of the world, which should lead to undesirable redistribution of funds from the lead restoration sites actually less due to those.
If there is something like the eighth wonder of the world, it would not not Angkor Wat, but the mere fact that this beautiful monument was selected from the seven wonders of the world. Anyone who has visited Angkor Wat is, its size, testify sublime beauty and architectural splendor. In fact, Angkor Wat is only one of many temples in extending an archaeological area, about 400 square kilometers. The plant, which is collectively, the “Angkor” (which means “city” in Khmer) is known, the home of Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple, many other wonderful remains of the once powerful Khmer Empire, which for the ninth decided that the 15th Century. While Angkor Wat is the largest and most beautiful of all might, Angkor Thom and Bayon was easy for the seven wonders of the world are also nominated.
But believe me for the visit – Angkor and judge for yourself whether or not to go Angkor Wat is one of the seven wonders list.
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