{"id":121973,"date":"2014-12-08T17:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T01:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=121973"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:05:21","slug":"anderson-silva-discusses-bullied-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anderson-silva-discusses-bullied-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva discusses being bullied as a child"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former UFC middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva opened up in a recent interview. In the interview, The Spider talked about growing up with his aunt and uncle in Curitiba, doing ballet as a child, his views on racism, and more in this incredible interview.<\/p>\n

“I have been a dancer. Not anymore,” <\/p>\n

“Man, what a phase. At first I didn\u2019t like it, no. It was punishment. No friend of mine did it. Me doing ballet? Hello? It wasn\u2019t very cool. My friends would all go like, ‘ah, little girl, little lady.’ And add that to my high-pitched voice\u2014I was bullied a lot.<\/p>\n

“But I started to like ballet. And my aunt also put me in tap-dancing lessons. I\u2019m thankful to her because it helped me a lot in fighting. Evander Holyfield practiced ballet. It\u2019s got nothing to do with that, you know. If you want do ballet, you do ballet. You want to fence, you fence. You want to be gay, be gay, it\u2019s all right. You respect people\u2019s spaces, they respect yours, it\u2019s all right.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Silva also discussed his views on racism, and why it has no placement in today’s society.<\/p>\n

“Racism is bad anywhere on the planet. It exists the United States as well, even more than in Brazil. I never had a problem with racism in Los Angeles. I think things are changing, people are learning that everyone is equal before God, independent of their color, their race. I tend to say that conflict is inevitable in man, that color is just an excuse to unleash that madness, that lack of respect people have for one another. I\u2019m very well set on this racism thing. We\u2019re living in a moment in which racism does not fit in the world.<\/p>\n

“My aunt and my uncle taught me to go into and come out of places with my head held high. At every academy I frequented, I was always well received for having the discipline and education that I acquired at home. When I started training tae kwon do, there were a lot of Koreans and whites in the academy, I was maybe the only black person. I cleaned the academy and trained for free. I never suffered any prejudice within the academy. I was always well-received, I was always respected. I have great friends that I made in the academies, to this day. In the sport environment, you have to learn to deal with different opinions, different races, and different classes. Everyone is the same.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Silva went on to discuss people who think he’s homosexual, and what his take is on that.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think there\u2019s prejudice, but there\u2019s a lot of homosexuals in mixed martial arts. There are a lot of them who haven\u2019t yet come out.<\/p>\n

“[If they were to come out,] nowadays it\u2019s so silly to not express your feelings. As long as you respect people\u2019s spaces, and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace and no one has anything to do with that.<\/p>\n

“I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it\u2019s all right. I don\u2019t think much of it. The fact that guy is gay doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren\u2019t gay. he can do whatever he wants with his private life.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes people think I\u2019m gay. A lot of people have asked me if I\u2019m gay. I answer, ‘Look, not to my knowledge. But I\u2019m still young, it could be that in the future I\u2019ll find out that I\u2019m gay.’ I take good care of my things, I put everything in a bag, I use soap, I put on a cream after training. People think it\u2019s capricious. To each his own. Doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re more man or less man, more gay or less gay.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The original interview was with Revistatrip <\/a>in Portugese, and translated by Fightland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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