Bee careful / the truth is out there
Last night a 13-year-old White girl won the national spelling bee. Take that India!!! And that boys!!! And that..... the dictionary.
I was going to insert here some hot facts about how all the winners of the national spelling bee for the past five years have been Indian boys. Unfortunately, after some ACTUAL RESEARCH, it turns out that this assumption has nothing to do with THE TRUTH. Having watched the three finalists of last year's bee (two indian boys and one indian girl with eerily masculine features) i had assumed the sport had a certain, shall we say, affirmatively active tendency, reflected in the above "not-racist-because-i'm-being-hip-and-ironic" joke. I guess living in the suburbs really does turn you into a Republican! However, looks like i actually CHECKED MY FACTS before publishing, proving that i'm still a Democrat at heart.
Having worked with several Indian people through yoga, grad school, and the Landmark forum, i have a bit of a skewed view of Indians, namely that they're REALLY IRRITATING! But then, that just might be yoga, grad school, and the Landmark forum, three very irritating settings in which a bouncing accent teeters on the border of unbearable.
Still, kudos to Katharine Close, who won the national spelling bee, despite the Indian-leaning judges trying to f---- her up in the 19th round with the word "kundalini." (This is also true! I looked at her word list!) Katharine still prevailed despite the OBVIOUS HINDU FAVORITISM to ursprache all their butts in the end! (Note: i did not do my homework on this one, and i have no idea what ursprache means. However, i do know that kundalini is the sacred energy coiled like a serpent three times at the base of a spine, and also that it's origin is Sanskrit. Katharine also got "Galilean" in the third round, are you starting to smell a Templar-esque conspiracy? I'm not going to recrementitious myself any further.)