avant-naut reblogged
okay new ask game. what's your ethnicity and can you slav squat (squat directly down with your heels touching the floor).
observations I've made so far, with a sample size of over 1000:
- most, but not all, ethnically slavic people are able to slav squat.
- most balkan people are also able to
- any slavic and balkan people who can't slav squat are ashamed at the fact
- the ethnicity with the highest ability to slav squat seems to be ashkenazi jews, with many responding and only 1 or 2 being unable to
- people are confusing the slav squat with the asian squat - afaik, the slav squat has a wider stance, with your knees pointed outwards. the asian squat is narrower stance, with your knees tucked under your chin
- nevertheless, most east and southeast asian people seem to be able to do both, and were astonished that other people find it hard
- most americans don't seem to know what an ethnicity is, with lots of them just responding 'american' or 'white' (one of those is a nationality, the other is a race)
- most european americans cannot slav squat, but those who could almost universally answered that they are largely ethnically slavic
- the numbers were around 50% for native american respondees, though lots of european americans seemed to claim they have native friends who can
- a lot more people in the world have ehlers danlos syndrome (hEDS) than I would have imagined (I have it too)
- a lot of people in the notes claimed that the ability to slav squat came from flexibility in childhood, which is an interesting theory. however, I have serious issues with the external rotator cuff on my hip, and I can still do it easily
- very few southern europeans or arabs answered, so numbers still inconclusive there
- south americans (people with mixed indigenous and iberian heritage) seem to be able to do it more often than not
- the numbers are around 50% for ethnically british and irish people
- bonus observation: one american described their ethnicity as 'catholic', and another as 'anglo-saxon' which is the funniest thing I've ever fucking read
