Current Events > National Spelling Bees. Why are there no white kids anymore?

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WizardofHoth
05/31/19 9:54:48 AM
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Ive noticed that whenever there's a news report about national spelling bees, its always Indian/Bombay boys and girls. Do Indian/Bombay kids think they're so smart that they can go to the national spelling bees?

Where are the regular white kids that used to go to those things? Yeah times have changed so different kids of cultures can participate, but come on. Spelling bees used to be for white kids to go to
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MedeaLysistrata
05/31/19 9:56:00 AM
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I mean... It's a Frankenstein, but it might have legs
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obeseexplosive
05/31/19 9:56:06 AM
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Wtf
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pikachupwnage
05/31/19 9:56:21 AM
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When you troll its supposed to be subtle enough to not get modded bruh
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Holy_Pumpkin
05/31/19 9:57:40 AM
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Are you having fun TC?
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AvlButtslam
05/31/19 9:57:55 AM
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*sips Coffey*
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eston
05/31/19 9:58:35 AM
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WizardofHoth
05/31/19 9:58:48 AM
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I was just watching the morning news on CBS an hour ago and they did show a group of kids that were Indian/Bombay at the spelling bee.

Do Indian kids of India descent think they have the brains to spell wacky complicated words at spelling bees?

Where are all the white kids att? Spelling bees back in my day was a thing for regular white kids.
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Romulox28
05/31/19 9:59:14 AM
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WizardofHoth posted...
Indian/Bombay

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WizardofHoth
05/31/19 9:59:44 AM
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WizardofHoth
05/31/19 10:01:10 AM
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Do white kids even go to spelling bees anymore these days?
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Coastal_elite
05/31/19 10:01:47 AM
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Spelling bees are not about your mastery of English.

Maybe they were at some point, but now they ask weird words that no native English speaker would use, they're basically greek/latin/arab words that happen to be in the English dictionary.

You don't get good at spelling bee by knowing the English language. You get good by developing a system where you know the greek/latin/persian roots for words (e.g. Orthography comes from the greek ORTHOs which means good and GRAPHos, which means writing, and Orthopedist comes from ORTHOs and PEDOS, which means feet, or something like that) and then what suffixed can come from them.

It's not an american thing anymore, not more than a latin writing competition.
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