Spanish Team Poses With Slanted Eyes
We’re not sure why they would do this, but the Spanish basketball team that is playing in the Olympics posed for a promo shot with each team member slanting their eyes, presumably to ‘appear’ Asian.
Many around the world are upset at this, calling it racist and unnecessary.
There was a moment of tension when the Spanish and Chinese basketball teams went head to head, but the game went on as normal…Spain won 85-75.
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Lindsay wrote:
I think that’s cute…not racist…well I dont know what intentions they have but yeah…
08.13.2008 | 9:57 am | Link
Oscarucho wrote:
Ignorance is a big issue here in Buenos Aires too. Now that I know how the education system works here, it all makes sense. People are not well educated. Chinese people are seen everywhere in Buenos Aires and Portenos are not very fond of them.
08.13.2008 | 12:27 pm | Link
KARINA VIDAL wrote:
No creo que ellos lo hicieron con la intension de RACISMO…pero bueno..la gente es tan sensible estos dias y mas los GRINGOS whatever…diviertanse pinches aburridos…
08.13.2008 | 12:49 pm | Link
alessandrajordan wrote:
Wtf? It is NOT cute the picture is disgusting; especially when the Olympics is suppose to be a time of world unity.
08.13.2008 | 6:47 pm | Link
MexicanBoy wrote:
SILLY AND VERY STUPID!!!
08.14.2008 | 1:21 am | Link
Linda. C wrote:
That is such a horrible picture, as cute as some of them might be.
Chinese people having slanted eyes is such a huge generalization. I’m officially disgusted.
08.14.2008 | 2:10 am | Link
JP wrote:
This was dumb on their part.
08.15.2008 | 9:35 am | Link
DWOOD wrote:
I think that it’s a very racist gesture and very disrespectful! All I know is that if people were making fun of my latin roots, I would be offended. What the hell were they thinking while taking that picture? Dumb asses.
08.15.2008 | 2:41 pm | Link
Spain’s Olympic Tennis Team Also Pose With Slant - Latin Gossip wrote:
[…] The Olympic Spanish basketball team members aren’t the ones guilty of it! […]
08.16.2008 | 1:10 pm | Link
J Glenn wrote:
Offensive as hell…..why would they even THINK this is cute? Remember the flack the Peruvian under-21s caught when they did this to Korean fans?
But it shouldn’t even be about the flack they getp; it’s just insensitive, arrogant & rude. (& I usually root for Spain, having lived there for a year as a kid).
Mr. Calderon’s gonna face HELL when he returns to the Toronto Raptors; big asian population here, & they’re not gonna buy his “loving gesture”.
I’m really disgusted & saddened by this.
08.16.2008 | 11:49 pm | Link
Tad Nathaniel wrote:
Time-slip, if you will, back to the 1950-1960’s. The boss (of course, male) walks into the office, and pats his female secretary’s rear end. He says, ” I like them round and plump.” Now, someone from the 21st century tells this boss that he has done and said an awful thing, and he is being downright sexist.
His response: “I was giving my secretary a friendly greeting. It was just harmless fun. It is absurd for anyone to make a big thing of it. How could women possibly take offense at this? I’ll have you know that I am friends with many women!”
Dear stupid Spaniards, don’ t you think it’s about time you learned that it is offensive when the people you direct your words and actions think it’s offensive. The one dishing it out has no say in whether people should be offended or not.
Join us. We have already moved into the 21st century. Hope you can catch up.
08.19.2008 | 9:58 am | Link
PSevieluvsU wrote:
HOW IGNORANT!!
08.21.2008 | 2:45 pm | Link
yolanda hernandez wrote:
Spaniards are used to thinking they are better than everyone else and are too ignorant to understand that by taking pictures of themselves immatating the asian people is actually an insult. Show some respect to these people the asian people have already suffered enough by their own people.
08.24.2008 | 1:21 pm | Link
dick terranova wrote:
It’s a racial gesture, period! it is like when you say that all the Spaniards have a dick in their mouth when they speak because they sound too much Z on it. how you like that, fucking hijo de puta!! I’m a chinese born and raise in south america. PORQUE NO LE CALLA ESPANOLES MAMAVERGA!
08.24.2008 | 6:41 pm | Link
J Glenn wrote:
Some of the comments seem to be proving that racism knows no national boundaries! Criticize individual actions, fine, but to then to expand that to describing (and insulting) a whole country….hello hypocrisy!
08.24.2008 | 7:54 pm | Link
spanish guy wrote:
If the chinese people is not offended ¿why are you offended? the Chinese Embassy in Spain issued an official note clearly stating that the Chinese in mainland China do not consider this gesture as offensive at all.
May be you have an obsession with matters pertaining to race.
09.06.2008 | 9:57 am | Link