The Politically Incorrect Piano

Each year young people from around the world meet to compete in the Bachauer Piano Competition aka the Gina Bachauer Young Artists and Junior Competitions. Here’s the list of entrants:
2008 Junior Competitors (Ages 11-13)
Cai, Stephanie (USA)
Chan, Karin (Canada)
Chang, Chia-Rui (Taiwan)
Chen, Cheng (China)
Dan, Aika (Japan)
Gao, YuTong (China)
Han, Anna (USA)
Huang, Hilda (USA)
Inoue, Hinako (Japan)
Izumi, Aoi (Japan)
Kawasaki, Maya (Japan)
Lee, Kyung A (Korea)
Li, George (USA)
Lin, Tami (Canada)
Lisiecki, Jan (Canada)
Mizumoto, Weston (USA)
Ozaki, Yui (Japan)
Park, Hyo-eun (South Korea)
Poon, Poony (USA)
Sham, Ching Toa Aristo (Hong Kong)
Song, Daniel (USA)
Sun, Qilin (China)
Sun, Yi Fan (China)
Tsuchida, Rieko (USA)
Vojtek, Jan (Czech Republic)
Wang, YiJia (China)
Weiyi, Le (USA)
Wianto, Nayaka Clarence (Indonesia)
Xu, Qi (China)
Xu, Zhi Ge (Angela) (China)
Yandi, Chen (China)
Zhang, Jiyuan (China)
Zhang, Sarina (USA)

2008 Young Artists Competitors (Ages 14-18)
Arai, Asami (Japan)
Cai, Yizheng (David) (China)
Chen, (Jenny) Yen-Yu (USA)
Cho, Joong-Hun (Korea)
Choi, Song (USA)
Chun, Yong Hoon (Korea)
Dmytrenko, Anna (USA)
Floril, Jonathan (Spain)
Gimre, Karsten (USA)
Hou, Kimberly (USA)
Huang, Nansong (China)
Kim, Minkyung (USA)
Kiyone, Marie (Japan)
Ko, David Yoshiaki (USA)
Kociuban, Julia (Poland)
Lazar, Ingmar Anthony (Germany)
Lee, Tony Dongyi (Russia)
Lie, Ning Yuen (China)
Moon, Page Young (USA)
Moshchuk, Ivan (USA)
Rana, Beatrice (Italy)
Tam, Kenric (USA)
Treutler, Annika Maria (Germany)
Tsang, Hin Yat Mozar (Hong Kong)
Vujadinovic, Sara (Serbia)
Woo, Naomi (Canada)
Yang, Song (USA)
Yao, Chengcheng (China)
Ye, Sijing (USA)
Zhang, Hao Tian (Tim) (Canada)

Did you notice anything about the names?

Now, the Wall Street Journal had an article the other day about the racial barrier in baseball. According to the report 29% of Major League Baseball Players are Latinos compared to only 5% of college players.

Something must be done, the politically correct NCAA tells us. These kids need access to the camps and travel teams so they can compete. They don’t seem to beef too much about the Black athletes dominating college basketball (59%) and football (47%).

Rick Majerus characterized the NCAA executives as the kind of guys who have to step out of the shower to take a leak. I like the imagery!

For those who simply must know more about the ethnicity of college baseball players, I suggest you study the ethnicity of high school drop out rates.

Meanwhile, I’m looking for that politically correct article about the unfairness of Asian musician dominance and what in the world are we going to do about it.

YoYo Mama, Bro!

By the way, 1st prize in the Junior Division was Ching Toa Aristo Sham (Hong Kong) and China-born Sijing Ye of the USA won the 14-18 year old division.