I'm sorry, but Gold is 18 yrs old. She is not that young. She should know better.
e.g., "Maybe she hasn't taken a class on the history of colonialism/imperialism yet?" ...Erm, what does that have to do with Gracie Gold and her supposedly racially insensitive tweet? Do enlighten me.
I'm completely confused. I thought the Japanese replace all the curl tongue R sound with the L sound and can't pronounce the Rs at all. They shouldn't have any problem pronouncing "Only" or "Sandwich"(what's that one even about anyway?), but should have problem pronouncing something like "Gracie" (would sound something like "glayxi"?)
I do not think Gracie meant to offend anyone but it is telling that she assumed something like that would go over without anyone taking offense to it. I don't buy the whole "she's young" argument b/c she's 18 years old and most people are taught at a very young age that mocking people is rude and it's especially rude when you mock someone who is different.
It's common sense. Being that she is a public figure in the sport, she needs to be smart and think before she posts something like that to thousands of followers. The Gold PR team needs to have a long talk with her about what is appropriate...
Her tweet could have been considered bad if she intended it. She apologized as soon as people told her that it was a bad tweet to write. I think she is a good person
AllYouDoIsTalk, can you stop categorizing people as Asian or non-Asian? I think you will find either on the offended and not-offended camps.
Some time later she tweeted an apology. I'm thinking she had to confer with her PR team and figure out the correct way to apologize which is probably why it took so long...I think if her apology immediately followed the replacement tweet, it may not have blown up so much.
The video is called One More Sandwich - thus we see that the Shibsibs are very careful to avoid any accent jokes in the title.
However, Mao is cast as the person to declare that there is, "Only One More Sandwich" (looped to repeat multiple times), which kicks off a fight between all the skaters present to get to the last remaining sandwich. Do you think the Shibsibs were also racist, since Mao's accent is highlighted in this video? This would be a strange conclusion, since both Shibutani parents are Japanese. The error, if any, is not racism, it is ethnocentrism.
As a person with a Polish surname in the US, I endured a lot of ethnocentric humor back in the day, which can be summarized as follows: Polish people are stupid. How stupid are they? Well......... fill in the blank. This form of "humor" only disappeared gradually where I lived during the 1980's. It is not that long ago that making fun of people's many, many different accents was everyday-common in the US. It still seems to be OK to make fun of "redneck" accents country wide, and to make fun of "Yankee" accents in the South.
Here's the Shibsibs video.
It would make sense that Mao & Gracie shared this joke, because they both appear in the video.
There were also many complaints about polyphonic music, the music of the young in the days of Socrates.
I wonder whether the elders also complained about hairstyles and clothing styles of the younger generation in ancient times?
Indeed, shorter words and simpler syntax are effective tools in constructing a winning argument.“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Informal arguments and debates are, of course, the order of the day on internet forums.
All the advice on that page is good, but the ninth point is pertinent.
I, of course, fall short of this goal, particularly the part about keeping it brief, , but it's a good goal nonetheless.9
Use effective speech and grammar. You don't need to pretend you are a university professor, but if you want to be effective and convincing, you should use decent English. Don't try to use big words in order to sound more intelligent, because most people can see through such an act. On the other hand, don't be afraid to use the right word for the task. If a big word is called for, use it. Most importantly, try to speak (or write) clearly and confidently. Make your point using no more and no fewer words than you need.
However, I don't think that any argument I could make, however well phrased, is going to convince a skating fan that their favorite skater or team isn't the very, very bestest skater ever...
My own belief is that this discussion about Gracie's tweet points out the pitfalls of trying to convey everything you would like to say in 140 characters, particularly when people you don't know at all are drawing inferences from your private conversations with your friends. Gracie's tweet, addressed to Mao, was an essentially private conversation between Gracie & Mao..
I encourage my grandchildren to let Twitter strictly alone.
I think skaters should, too.
It was a silly tweet of hers to put out there, but she did apologize. I think those who are getting pissed that it was HOURS before need to cut her some slack (you know, because people Tweet by the minute, otherwise any apologies that take longer than a few minutes should be seen as insincere! ).
This isn't actually problematic like when Italian gymnast Carlotta Ferlito said if she had a black face she would have won... http://www.webpronews.com/carlotta-f...k-face-2013-10
I think people will be sensitive no matter what, and a joke that wasn't malicious to some (and it obviously wasn't intended to be malicious) would have others (probably haters of Gold in the first place) sharpening their pitchforks, so to speak.
I think her tweet was more of a poke to show how different Japanese speak in english
don't know if its is offensive though for most japanese people
I believe the reason for the delayed apology is that she may have been scared or unsure of how to approach it...and I don't blame her.
lol I remember I was more offended by the "she deserves to be on the podium with me" comment in reference to Ashley. I think Gracie, like Patrick, might just have an underdeveloped social filter.
Undoubtedly she's learned a lesson from this and will think a little more before she posts something like that again. I don't think she's a bad person...just a little dumb/ignorant, that's all.