Spain's Olympic Basketball Team: Racist or Just Stupid?
Actually, perhaps it's the advertising firm that's racist, while the basketball team is just plain stupid. Both of Spain's Olympic basketball teams posed for an ad for a courier company (a sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation), while pulling their eyes back in a slant-eyed manner.
I suppose no one told them they were going to China for the Olympics.
Going to the Olympics or not, you would have expected someone to object to this. What I also found strange was The Guardian's statement:
No offence was intended by the advert, but whether the Chinese see it that way is a different matter and it is likely to provoke more criticism at a delicate time for Spanish sport. The failure to recognise the potential consequences is striking in the light of the problems Spain has had with issues of race and the Spanish Olympic committee's continued desire to host the Games in Madrid in 2016 or 2020.No offense? It couldn't help that Spain beat China in Men's Basketball on Tuesday. At least the Chinese Women's team beat Spain on August 9th.
4 comments:
In Spain that gesture has neither racist nor offensive connotations.
http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=239190&st=40
For you and all stupid people.
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Lithuania basquetball team Racist noooooooooooooo is a joke and spain laugh
http://www.basketnews.lt/index.php/photos.view;id.794
their intentions may not be racist...
but lets ASK THE CHINESE PEOPLE their reaction since that is what the gesture is directed to ..
and as a chinse person, i find that extremely offensive.
in what ways can you defend this gesture? by saying its "funny"? I didnt know that imitating an ethnic feature was funny. How are asian eyes funny. Not only that it shows spain's ignorance by the way they define Chinese people, as people with slant eyes. Which inturns, perpetuate stereotypes that all Chinese have thin eyes.
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