Wow....and not in a nice way.
rosy14, I have taken exception to your "genetics is destiny' view of the world on other threads [e.g. on the need for theraputic exemptions], but this is fairly mindboggling for me as a North American from a multicultural/multiethnic country. Your comments are so out there, that I'd like to ignore them. But some things cannot be left to pass...
First, neither Canada nor the United States are genetically western European, let alone English.
In Canada, the indigenous peoples refer to themselves as First Nations and Inuit. Inuit are northern asian genetically, and First Nations a more complex non-European genetic pool. All of us who come from peoples who immigrated in the last 500 years or so understand this.
French North America is not more recent than English settlements....in fact, French and English colonisation started in the same era except for the fishing settlements of Newfoundland [English, Irish and Basque] that go back nearly five hundred years but were not originally year round. Your assertion that Quebecois or other French in Canada are not North American are the kind of comments that lead to demonstrations of public outrage here. [And there are also the Spanish settlements in what is now the US...]
Asian peoples, particularly Chinese, have been in North America since the opening of the Pacific colonies. While these colonies and settlements only became part of the US and Canada in the mid 19th Century, they existed as separate colonies linked in the Pacific trade well before that. So, while there are families of Asian background that are recent immigrants, many families go back 9 or 10 generations or more. It is deeply objectionable to say that they are not North American.
Russia itself is a multi-ethnic country, and the Russian coaches that have come to North America find themselves in communities with Russians and other slavic peoples that are also long established. Certainly, post Soviet migration of coaching talent, not only from Russia, but also Ukraine and other former eastern bloc countries, has had a profound impact on North American skating. But there has been a mixing, both in terms of transmitting methods into North America, but picking up approaches. Zoueva for one has talked about how her Canadian experience, where she was obliged to work with skaters of all abilities, has made her a coach who can respond to skaters' needs and talents, rather than just doing well when the best are referred to her.
I understand from your other posts that you are in a Western European country and have a medical background. I sincerely believe that you don't intend to offend. But you need to know that this kind of eugenic discussion is not welcome, and seems to be written in ignorance of North American reality.
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