sumo!

April 28, 2008 at 6:45 am
Maryland, Random, Sony DSC T-10

   
Does anyone else think little kids in giant sumo suits trying knock each other over or out of the ring is hilarious? This was another of the festivities as Maryland Day over the weekend in College Park. I gotta wonder if this is offensive to Japanese culture where Sumo has a rich, ancient, and noble tradition? It does sort of seem like it might be. I know as a person of Dutch descent I can’t stand to see wooden shoe and tulip parodies.

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1. juxtaexposed.com - daily photography from Washington, DC Says:
   April 29th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

   [...] commuter morning after morning.     My pondering of the cultural insensitivies of Sumo fat suit wrestling made it into the “Blog Log” in Tuesday morning’s publication (thank you Jenn for [...]

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