Video: White guy mistaken for Michael Phelps

that is really hilarious. had me laughing the whole time i was watching it. what a great sport, steve is.

I was gonna say the same thing. Definitely China and not Japan but still funny as hell.

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Dude: My name is Steve Parry (Barry?) from great Britain. Steve Parry from Great Britain?

Crowd of curious onlookers: Ohhhhhhhhh…..

Dude: You don’t care do you, I’m not Phelps!

Maybe he should speak louder (or in Chinese). Haha. Who’s the person carrying the cut-out with the faux Gold medals anyway? Anyway, pretty funny.

In 2005 I was in Tienimen Square (too lazy to spell check, close enough) and I had Chinese people taking pictures with me. I recall how not one of them ask first. You should of seen this African American with dreads at the Great Wall – they treated her like a circus freak.

Anyway, this guy in the video was speaking with a British accent and while most Chinese can’t speak English (as much as Americans can’t speak Spanish), you would like they would understand “…not Michael Phelps.”

If I was Steve Barry, I would shag the Chinese beach volleyball girls in those red bikinis dancing on the side-lines.

The BBC has been using that cut out as a “Phelps-O-Meter” to track his haul of Gold Medals – adding a medal to the cut out everytime he won one (as they guessed he’d never come to the BBC studio). THe idea had been for Parry (who’s a swimming commentator for the Beeb) to do a Vox Pops feature asking people on the streets what they thought of Phelps and using the cut out as a prop. I guess all white people look the same.

Incidently the fact that Parry got mistaken for Phelps was covered by NBCs morning show wear Parry was given a Team USA hat/sweatshirt to improve the likeness.

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And if you weren’t a well-built Asian guy but you did have glasses people would think you were Gedde Watanabe.

Personally I like it. Why should one group of minorities automatically have to sympathize with all other minorities? Sure, there’s the overall aspect of “be nice” but that’s so schmaltzy. If we are truly to see them as equal, we need to see them as just as biased and full of stereotypes as the rest of us.