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TAR16 - EP 11 "They Don’t Even Understand Their Own Language" (Shanghai 2)
slayton:
Luke, I always compare situations like Dan & Jordan's to Kevin & Drew racing Joe & Bill for the last final-3 spot in Beijing.
As guests in China, even under such extreme stress, Joe & Bill made the effort to make sure that their taxi driver understood where they wanted to go, by having guidebooks and a Chinese-English dictionary, and telling him that they wanted to go to the "South Gate" in Mandarin.
Kevin & Drew weren't happy that their taxi driver let Joe & Bill get ahead of them in the race to the Pit-stop, but they never showed them berating him.
In the clip, Dan & Jordan criticized their taxi driver for not understanding "follow" and they yelled at him for not running a red light.
Expecting someone in another country to understand English, and to break the law for you, is the epitome of Ugly Americanism.
mswood:
Slayton
I can't speak for luke,but I don't think anyone is going to argue that it is ugly behavior. My point is that, one instance doesn't reflect how a person normally behaves. We have had racers who yell at locals (or demean them all the time. That personally bothers me a lot more, then what so far as been a single instance.
After going through every season with a fine tooth comb, I don't think there has been a racer (to make it near the end) who hasn't at one point of another lost their temper. Be it with a local, a service personell, with fellow racers, or with their team mate.
I mean look at Danny & Oswald two racers who are considered extremely friendly to locals, they have insulted cab drivers, told them they can't speak their own language and threatened to kill one. All in one leg. Was it ****ty behavior, of course it was. But was that instance something that really reflected how they normally treat others?
spolarium:
are they on there way to the pitstop????
georgiapeach:
sorry, emergency at work, just got home. Screencaps in a bit, maybe we can figure out where they are going??
spolarium:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on April 30, 2010, 11:02:28 PM ---sorry, emergency at work, just got home. Screencaps in a bit, maybe we can figure out where they are going??
--- End quote ---
please georgiapeach ......
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