(thanks to Yahoo Sports for the pictures)
Yahoo Sports reports that aboriginal groups are upset by a couple portrayals of native peoples by Olympic skaters.
"I am offended by the performance and so are our other councillors," Bev Manton, the chairwoman of the [New South Wales] Land Council said.
"Aboriginal people for very good reason are sensitive about their cultural objects and icons being co-opted by non-Aboriginal people – whether they are from Australia or Russia.
"It's important for people to tread carefully and respectfully when they are depicting somebody else's culture, and I don't think this performance does."
Let me get this straight: Ice skaters have managed to hurt the feelings of people who are a couple of generations removed from being cannibals?
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