Pretenses

I saw pictures of a Thanksgiving service on facebook. In it, groups of people, young, old, children were on stage dressed up in rented ethnic costumes (with exception of the Chinese garbs of course). I believe that the people wearing the traditional clothes were all Chinese and yet they were wearing Indonesian tribal costumes other countries' national costumes.

I am trying to understand from the pictures what the goals they were trying to accomplish. What was the purpose of potraying diversity when diversity was never achieved or even attempted? After all, this was a church where some people in the leadership periodically emphasized "going back to their root" which was being a "Mandarin Church."

In the end, I came to the conclusion that it was either a pretense or just something different to do to generate novelty experience, excitement or a good colorful show.