# Can someone explain why this is offensive?

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**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-why-this-is-offensive/526245 "2010-01-24T17:10:39Z")\
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Well that would be reasonable if that’s the reason. You’d hope that the coach (or whomever) would have looked into that before they agreed to the dance though.

The only thing I personally have to compare it to would be some sort of Highland dance tribute skate thing (I’m of Scottish heritage way back when and did Highland dancing), and assuming it was well executed and not designed to be a parody, I don’t think I would find it offensive at all.

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