Sounds like Jo Brand, no doubt!
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Myke Cole, Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig. Together, the epitome of random.
The full thing for those interested.
Some may remember a different time when Sykes and Wendig got together on Twitter, this happened:
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Itâs been a long time since I saw So I Married An Axe Murderer
I wonder if it holds up
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as you doâŚ
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Wouldnât it be GREAT if the flag-bearers for each country dressed like this during the parade to the torch-lighting ceremony?!
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The Canadian one would need to be altered a bit â I can hear the cultural appropriation analyses already.
Overall though, an anime Olympics would truly be a Revenge of the Nerds moment, and maybe even unifying? We could use some unifying right now.
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I do like how the top is essentially a hockey jersey, though.
Two things we did well: an anthem simple enough to sing a capela with minimal singing skill, and a flag that is simple but instantly recognizable, confused with no other, with great design capacity. Not saying no one else has done the same, but it is something I feel we got right.
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I have this recorded from the Disney Channel on VHS! My son loved it as a kid! I liked it. I should watch it again.
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Which culture? Remember, itâs for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, so of course thereâs going to be influence on each costume from Japanese culture.
My son says they look like Fire Emblem characters from a video game.
The furs, for one. Given Canadaâs track record towards Indigenous people, I can see blowback on that.
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Yeah, it looks like theyâre deliberately trying to evoke First Nations fancy-dance regalia with the lower half of the garment (furs, tassels, metal loops, and that part sticking out in the back).
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But theyâre a part of CanadaâŚ
Thatâs a tetchy subject, especially when you consider the large swathes of unceded territory.
Itâs like if a bunch of people invaded your house, then everybody said youâre one of them.
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Yup, thatâs exactly what I noticed â that and the whole âwarriorâ vibe would cause an absolute unholy uproar.
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Uggh. As a white dude, I am probably completely unqualified to talk about this, but, Iâll give it a shot.
I was watching a video about Star Trek today, about times that it had failed to live up to its progressive ideals. One example given was the third episode of the first season of TNG, âCode of Honor,â where the aliens of the week were basically âAfricans as written by white people who have nothing than stereotypes to work with.â
Picard claims a kind of kinship with them, saying that they remind him of a culture back on Earth, but doesnât name a specific culture, so, again, that culture appears to be âgeneric stereotypical African.â
The actual Africa, on the other hand, is a rich tapestry of dozens, if not hundreds, of cultures, and the same can be said about indigenous American cultures.
So, this episode is a cultural artifact, designed by a bunch of white dudes, which reduces a panoply of non-white cultures to a single, simplistic stereotype, and attempts to claim ownership of that culture by virtue of sharing the same patch of land as the people from those cultures. The episode is widely panned as racist and was called, in the video I mentioned above, âa low point for the entire Star Trek franchise.â
So, to imagine a (probably) non-indigenous person, marching into the Olympics wearing a faux-tribal outfit designed by another (probably) non-indigenous person, based on a caricature of the indigenous peoples of Canada, which is then mashed up with other Canadiana as an attempt to claim a shared identity with themâŚ
I agree that âabsolute unholy uproarâ would probably be the response.
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This is a good explanation.
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Thanks!
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I just wish they werenât all carrying weapons.
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