Re: AKEBONO, BEER AND CAUCASIANS

Please keep the ritual of Sumo alive.  The unemotional look on their faces
will hopefully always stay.  This is culture.  If you change this, you're
losing something and making Sumo seem like other sports.  That's what makes
Sumo special.  It may be different than other sports, but that's what makes
Sumo-Sumo.

Peace.
"PROMETHEUS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Someone wrote:
>
> > > >    Sporting dyed hair and an earring, Akebono said he tried boxing
>  > > once as a kid but things didn't work out.
>  >
>  > Anyone have a pic of this new look?
>
> > I second that.  I'm picturing all sorts of oddness.
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> It's not so odd if you live in Japan.
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> >
> > > >    K-1 is wildly popular in Japan, where bouts are regularly staged
> > > > before crowds of up to 70,000. The sport has held events in Europe
> > > > and the United States and is seeking expansion those markets.
> > >
> > > And yet the bashos are half full.  Maybe this is indicative of
> > > something.
>
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> It is indicative of the appeal of TRASH SPORTS to an entertainment-hungry
> audience.
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>
> > Well, one thing I've thought could help sumo be more popular (but maybe
> > not help sumo as a whole) would be to allow some emotion into it.  My
> > theory of why Takamisakari is so popular is that he shows some actual
> > emotion and fire up on the dohyo.
>
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> NO NO NO! What's wrong with you people?
>
> You are trying to CHANGE SUMO so that it harmonizes with your own base
> instincts and cultural prejudices.
>
> You can't have the winner of a bout grinning like an idiot and frantically
> waving his arms in a triumphant fashion. That would turn SUMO into
PRO-RESU.
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>
> > Now, I'm not saying I want to see sumo turn into pro wrestling, but I
> > kinda would like Asashoryu or whomever to smile when they win a match
> > or, heck, a basho.  On the dohyo, that is.  Right now, the stoicism of
> > the rikishis sometimes looks like boredom to me.
>
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> NO NO NO! You don't get it! Only fools and embarrassed people smile in
> Japan.
>
> You blockheads are trying to impose your own cultural values on SUMO.
>
> You are not SUMO fans!
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>
> > Who knows though.  This could just be my wondering what would happen if
> > some rikishi won a basho and pumped his fist/smiled/looked happy.  The
> > way it is now, I picture the Kyokai banning the guy for life for having
> > emotions.
>
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>
> And rightly so. Of course these guys have emotions. The point is NOT to
show
> them.
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