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Is it racist to say…

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…that the Chinese are really really really good at this sort of thing?

I can’t say I like it better than the original version, but I’m certainly in awe of it:

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Is it racist to say… — 16 Comments

  1. Truth is a complete defense. Just go to any Cirque du Soleil performance and see who are the people doing the unreal acrobatics. They’re all tiny Asian athletes.

  2. More fit to a cheer of “brekekekex koax koax” I guess, than a swan’s trumpeting.

    So, swan. Hmmm.

    There’s Orff’s “Olim Iacus Colueram”, #12 from the “Carmina Burana”, about the oven roasted swan singing his miseries as he’s poised to be served up to dinner guests.
    (https://youtu.be/5wJzp4QWDOQ)

    Olim lacus coleuram,
    olim pulcher extiteram,
    dum cignus ego fueram.

    Miser, miser!
    modo niger
    et ustus fortiter!

    Girat, regirat garcifer;
    me rogus urit fortiter;
    propinat me nunc dapifer,

    Miser, miser!
    modo niger
    et ustus fortiter!

    Nunc in scutella iaceo,
    et volitare nequeo
    dentes frendentes video:

    Miser, miser!
    modo niger
    et ustus fortiter!

    Also, gone from us recently Joao Gilberto, whose “O Pato” has a duck, a merganser, a swan kicking up a samba dance, and a tico-tico scoffing from the sidelines, I think.

    (https://youtu.be/JB28oT6KyIY)

    O pato vinha cantando alegremente, quém, quém
    Quando um marreco sorridente pediu
    Pra entrar também no samba, no samba, no samba
    O ganso gostou da dupla e fez também quém, quém
    Olhou pro cisne e disse assim “vem, vem”
    Que o quarteto ficará bem, muito bom, muito bem
    Na beira da lagoa foram ensaiar
    Para começar o tico-tico no fubá
    A voz do pato era mesmo um desacato
    Jogo de cena com o ganso era mato
    Mas eu gostei do final quando caíram n’água
    E ensaiando o vocal
    Quém, quém, quém, quém
    Quém, quém, quém, quém

  3. I linked that when you made the four little swans post. It works amazingly well.

  6. > I would have preferred the frogs to jump more.

    The jumps were great, so frog like. The costumes were also well done.

  7. Of course it is, by today’s standards.

    But that is an amazing display of physical skill and mastery.

  8. Makes a nice change from Woke Whitey staging The Marriage of Figaro in a SF Bathhouse set and calling it Art, etc. ad nauseam.

    Re the physicality: it helps to have a gene pool of 1.2B+ to select from… And there is a massive state-run 100% meritocratic selection program for any and all kinds of athletic / cultural talents.

    Plenty of things not to like about China (trust me, I kind of live in the neighbourhood), but good territory for a budding young Steinway salesman. David Goldman has commented muchly on this.

  10. Bear in mind, Jackie Chan came up through the Peking Opera School. Oddly enough, I’ve never heard him sing.

  11. Neo… yes everything is racist to say these days (which you already know) … & that said, Lev Ivanov would probably roll over in his grave if he saw this thing.. or else burst his bubble laughing.. Swan Lake is coming to Eugene in Jan. & already have our tickets – Can’t wait for the “little swans” … for a little burg – the Eugene Ballet Company is very very good, and growing – a beautiful new studio being built now for the combined orchestra and ballet, academy, and performance companies.. with it’s own parking garage … nobody has a parking garage in Eugene! (my grand-daughter is coming up thru the ranks – looking forward to seeing her on the main stage) Kimo

  14. Neo,
    It’s racist for any white person (Jews usually included) to say anything. If they’re a white Buddhist, it probably racist to not say anything.

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