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I never thought the crowd booed anything but the scores on all of the events that there was this sort of controversy.
I love this picture of Patrick:
http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_...31893528566_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x
BTW I've been wondering if he has some Caucasoid blood. He doesn't look a genuine Asian to me.
I heard a rumor that one of his remote ancestor is Portuguese.
Anyway, I love Patrick just the way he is!
I don't know if he has any non-asian blood. Chan's ancestors were from southern China where there are more people with double eyelids. He definitely looks like a complete Asian to me. Contrary to the general beliefs in western world, many Asians have double eyelids and tall nose bones. Of course, there are many, maybe more than a half of the population who have single eyelids and flat noses in Asia. The funny thing is how closely looked the easterners and the westerners in some cases. My own paternal grandfather looked almost identical to Al Gore - the once US vise president. And Gore was partly Scots-Irish decendent.
Another good-looking Asian male skater is Nan Song. His picture with yellow costume on IN is perfect.
Saw this posted on FSU - the small medal ceremony. I noticed that the same has been posted on Takahashi and Hanyu's threads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TdlLoQgZFhI#t=518s
Haven't got the chance to listen to it but it's great to see these 3 competitors' comradeship. The posters on FSU said both Takashi and Hanyu picked Patrick as one of their favourite skaters, I'm glad that their feelings towards Patrick are not as hostile as some of his fans are (I know someone will tell me that it's the Japanese' culture to be polite, but I would like to think they don't have to say that if they didn't mean it especially when they are skating in the same era.)
I don't know if he has any non-asian blood. Chan's ancestors were from southern China where there are more people with double eyelids. He definitely looks like a complete Asian to me. Contrary to the general beliefs in western world, many Asians have double eyelids and tall nose bones. Of course, there are many, maybe more than a half of the population who have single eyelids and flatter noses in Asia. The funny thing is how closely looked the easterners and the westerners in some cases. My own paternal grandfather looked almost identical to Al Gore - the once US vise president. And Gore was partly Scots-Irish descendant.
Another good-looking Asian male skater is Nan Song. His picture with yellow costume on IN is perfect.
That's interesting. When I first saw Patrick, I assumed that one parent or grandparent was non-Asian. Now I know better, of course, but it's interesting to realize even some Asians shared my first impression. Your point proves something that I learned in Anthropology class: there are often greater differences within a group than there are from group to group.
I thought the same thing too. Whatever the case, he is an extremely handsome young man!
I thought the same thing too. Actually the first time I showed his pic to my boy friend, he thought he is mixed too.
I think it's his sunken eyes make him look non-asian.
Here is a picture of Sun Dao-Lin - a very famous Chinese actor from 1940s to early 1990s: http://www.dianying.com/images/portraits/SunDaolin.jpg
What about Liu De Hua which I've posted on post 750 and this?