I'm not sure if anyone else has been following the Olympics but there was a controversy over costumes and the dance performed by the Russian Ice Dancing team and it reminded me of when we were talking about Minstrelsy in our class. The skaters were supposed to perform a folk dance so some countries chose country western dance, the US chose to do dance inspired by India and they all tried to be as authentic as possible but when Russia performed the Australian Aboriginal dance it was as if they were making fun of it. The dance moves they did were not Authentic and their costumes were offensive to Australians. This reminded me of how whites would do blackface and how offensive it was to blacks, this just goes to show that there are clearly still issues like this in the world, especially if they are demonstrated on an Olympic floor.