Anthropologists and the Olympics

As the start date of the Olympics draw near, much virtual ink is being churned as the coming Olympic Games are discussed. Dr. Charles Menzies cites in his blog the writings of Rachel Marsden a former SFU student and how she

blazed into the fuzzy mascot debate with a decidedly untactful and provocative whine about poor white people being disrespected

Menzies cites John Semley's retort:

Over the past week or so, frothing conservative columnist Rachel Marsden has been carving out an editorial niche for herself criticizing (and criticizing, and criticizing) the 2010 Vancouver Olympics logo and mascots. Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Canada’s ex-pat answer to Ann Coulter described the logo as “some sort of native Indian stone carving resembling a bloke with massive oedema of the legs” and the Games’ cartoon mascots as “various hybrids of legendary native indian [sic.] animals that could only ever exist only after a good toke-up of Canadian weed.”

To learn more, go to Charles Menzies' EcoKnow Project Page blog.