squashed: Russian Ice Skaters Impersonate Aboriginals, Win Gold » Sociological Images Next stop, the Olympics It’s one thing to have a figure skating routine influenced by aboriginal dance. It’s something else entirely to engage in the sort of cultural appropriation that verges on parody. And this routine is on the wrong side of it. But why? Is it the fake leaves? The not-quite-blackface leotard? Or is it the indelicacy of it all? Is the problem with the concept or with the execution? … in addition to the fact that the 2010 Olympics will be held on technically unceded land that, without any kind of treaty, should legally belong to the First Nations people who have lived in that area for centuries. www.no2010.com

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Russian Ice Skaters Impersonate Aboriginals, Win Gold » Sociological Images

Next stop, the Olympics

It’s one thing to have a figure skating routine influenced by aboriginal dance. It’s something else entirely to engage in the sort of cultural appropriation that verges on parody. And this routine is on the wrong side of it.

But why? Is it the fake leaves? The not-quite-blackface leotard? Or is it the indelicacy of it all? Is the problem with the concept or with the execution?

… in addition to the fact that the 2010 Olympics will be held on technically unceded land that, without any kind of treaty, should legally belong to the First Nations people who have lived in that area for centuries.

www.no2010.com

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