Taboo and Touchy subject: Too much ?

There's a lot of people who feel 1st nations were forced down our throats during the opening ceremonies. Too much of it as they say.

Here's how I see it. Its not that there's too much , I would welcome 50% , 75% , 100% of the ceremony to be 1st nations IF they had a show to warrant it. Unfortunately there's not enough depth and variety to it , its the same drum beating and ritual dancing. The equivalent to make my point would be if China did the Dragon dance you see on chinese new year for 2 hours. There's more to the arts and theatrical culture of china , they tell stories. They could've told the story of the salmon catch.. have 100s of kids dressed as salmon run through and fisherman catching them and do the ritual.. all done in a artsy dance thing , have Shania Twain meet in the middle for mainstream and 1st nation pride.. and my crotch's pride. But they didnt , they just danced around with drums beating like usual. There was no story telling.

I saw the drum and dance routine the night before when they welcomed the torch , what the hell was the difference? its the same routine. They dont tell stories which so ironic because the fabric of their culture is the elders passing on their stories to generations. Call me crazy but I would've had a theme of elders passing on their stories in the form of dance , music and art. Rather than look there's hundred of aboriginals dancing wiht feathers and paint and beating a drum. Yay.



There was so much potential to do something special for their culture and take it to the next level.

On another note , why do we need to represent all territories of canada? did Salt Lake City have Hula dancers? did Atlanta have grunge music? did LA have a tribute to highlanders? ... fuck Quebec , fuck the maritimes , fuck the prairies , fuck ontario and fuck the territories. These are BC"s games .. fuck us.