face issue

For thousands of years, Chinese people have sticked to a deeply-rooted notion: it is crucial to save face at whatever cost. This Olympics Games has revealed this clearly enough, with one after another controversial issues. First is lip sync, then performers' costumes of minority peoples, now the underage issue has re-surfaced after Western media's exposure pushed IOC to conduct an investigation. Shoot, hate to see all these disturbing issues coming up again and again. Why are some Western parties always trying to be at odds with us? Why couldn't we do things well enough, if our purpose is really to just save face? Although I know all such things, if they should be true, could be covered up by whatever means necessary, I'm afraid, some day, we could face a real face-losing time.