overheard walking through the living room
WIth the pairs figure skating final, whoever the woman in the NBC booth said something along the lines of: "The Chinese spin better, jump better, and toss each other around better, but the Russians have this skating quality the Chinese can't match."
Huh? Racist? Stupid? Both? At least Karlo said, I don't like to watch figure skating. Without prompting. I assured him that something better would be on tonight. Had to work, so I didn't catch much of anything.
Huh? Racist? Stupid? Both? At least Karlo said, I don't like to watch figure skating. Without prompting. I assured him that something better would be on tonight. Had to work, so I didn't catch much of anything.
posted by Anonymous at 8:15 AM
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On the surface, it is not a racist comment. If she said that about American and Canadian skaters, for example, nobody would notice. That said, I think she would have voted for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Superficialment le n'est pas raciste. Si elle dites que des patineurs Americaines et Canadiennes, pour exemple, ne personne discerneranait. Mais, je pense elle voterant pour l'Acte d'exclusion de Chinoise de 1882.
Hi, Kirsti here. I think what she was trying to say is that the Chinese are putting tons of money and effort into their skating programs, but they don't have the history or the precision or the elegance of the Russians. In the old Soviet days, if you wanted to be a figure-skating coach, you had to pass courses in anatomy, physiology, nutrition, ballet, costume design, and foreign languages, and you had to be able to do all the double jumps through axel. Nobody else has had that kind of focus, and that tradition has continued even though the USSR isn't around anymore and the funding has been precarious.
Having said all that, Alexei Urmanov--yecch.
I didn't see much of the skating. Are the Chinese pairs skaters still throwing the girl two feet higher than any of the other pairs? It's much more dangerous to do that, but it gets a big reaction from the crowd.
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