Russian Skaters' Aborigine Theme Causes Outcry
It is my firm belief that any and every situation is now cause for an outcry. You missed the bus - cry out - it's transit's fault for not knowing you intended on catching that bus! The dog ran away - cry out - it's the SPCA's fault for not adopting out pets that love their owners enough! You got a hangnail - cry out - it's skin care companies' fault for not warning that a lack of use of moisturizer can lead to hangnails! Bad hair day - cry out! Car won't start - cry out! It's not your fault! Nothing is ever your fault and it is your RIGHT to make a stink about it!
In case you, reader, believe I'm serious, I'm not. But, seriously, it takes some talent to keep coming up with new things to cause a ruckus over. Most everything has already been outcried.
After reading only the headline of the above article, I was fully prepared to shake a fist at the Russians, but after seeing the first picture, I was more inclined to roll on the floor laughing. The Aussies are upset over this? Really? I think I'd be ashamed to associate those costumes with my origin, wouldn't you?
Hint to Australian aboriginals: shut your pie hole! If the Russians want to embarass themselves like that in front of the whole world, let them! Don't stir things up and shout SCANDAL! just because you can. If their little ice dance has nothing to do with Australian aboriginals (ice dancing, Australia, aboriginals - one of these things doesn't belong), let them do their little dance and no one has to know what the heck they're wearing or that it bears a slight resemblance to certain customs of a certain culture.
On the Canadian side of this - way to go Tewanee Joseph - we've opened the doors to educate people like this. Now, wouldn't the Aussie's look much nicer if they'd simply sent one of their culturally educated aboriginals to the Russian ice dance team to teach them a few things? Instead, they had to open their big pie holes and, as a result, look just as foolish as the pair gliding around with silk leaves protruding from their brows and armpits.
It is my firm belief that any and every situation is now cause for an outcry. You missed the bus - cry out - it's transit's fault for not knowing you intended on catching that bus! The dog ran away - cry out - it's the SPCA's fault for not adopting out pets that love their owners enough! You got a hangnail - cry out - it's skin care companies' fault for not warning that a lack of use of moisturizer can lead to hangnails! Bad hair day - cry out! Car won't start - cry out! It's not your fault! Nothing is ever your fault and it is your RIGHT to make a stink about it!
In case you, reader, believe I'm serious, I'm not. But, seriously, it takes some talent to keep coming up with new things to cause a ruckus over. Most everything has already been outcried.
After reading only the headline of the above article, I was fully prepared to shake a fist at the Russians, but after seeing the first picture, I was more inclined to roll on the floor laughing. The Aussies are upset over this? Really? I think I'd be ashamed to associate those costumes with my origin, wouldn't you?
Hint to Australian aboriginals: shut your pie hole! If the Russians want to embarass themselves like that in front of the whole world, let them! Don't stir things up and shout SCANDAL! just because you can. If their little ice dance has nothing to do with Australian aboriginals (ice dancing, Australia, aboriginals - one of these things doesn't belong), let them do their little dance and no one has to know what the heck they're wearing or that it bears a slight resemblance to certain customs of a certain culture.
On the Canadian side of this - way to go Tewanee Joseph - we've opened the doors to educate people like this. Now, wouldn't the Aussie's look much nicer if they'd simply sent one of their culturally educated aboriginals to the Russian ice dance team to teach them a few things? Instead, they had to open their big pie holes and, as a result, look just as foolish as the pair gliding around with silk leaves protruding from their brows and armpits.
I can't stop laughing about the costumes! Besides, how does anyone really know if it's an "authentic" dance from thousands of years ago?
ReplyDeleteOh for Pete's sake! This is yet another example of a bunch of complainers who have nothing better to do with their time. Get a life and as the blogger has stated, "shut your pie hole".
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