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Spain’s Federation Cup tennis team photographed making 'slit-eyed' gesture

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A second group of Spanish Olympic athletes has been photographed making “slit-eyed” gestures, threatening to overshadow the Beijing Games with a row over racial stereotyping.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 12:37PM BST 15 Aug 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...am-photographed-making-slit-eyed-gesture.html

The photo was discovered on the official website of the Spanish Tennis Federation The latest photo to emerge shows Spanish women tennis players pulling the pose, apparently in anticipation of their Federation Cup match against China in April.

Pictures of the Spanish men’s and women’s basketball teams making the gesture, a crude impersonation of Chinese people, were published in adverts in Spanish newspapers earlier this week.

The photos, which were reprinted around the world, added to Spanish sport's poor reputation for racial sensitivity.

The latest image appears to show players in Spain’s Federation Cup team doing the “slit-eyed” gesture along with members of their support staff. There is no suggestion that they intended to cause offence.

It was apparently taken after the team defeated Italy in the quarter-finals of the competition - the leading team contest for women tennis players - in Febraury. Wine glasses are visible on the table in front of the party.

The Spanish team that defeated the Italians included Lourdes Dominguez-Lino, Nuria Llagostera Vives, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Carla Suarez-Navarro.

Llagostera Vives, Medina Garrigues and Suarez-Navarro are all competing at the Games in Beijing.

The photo is still visible on the official website of the Spanish Tennis Federation, where it was spotted. The original is captioned “Estamos preparados para China”, which translates as “We are prepared for China”.

Spain’s women tennis players defeated the Chinese team in their Federation Cup semi-final in April. The Spanish are due to play Russia in the final in September.
 
Here we go again!

Person A:

Here goes the Americans again!

Person B:

Don't blame the Americans for Spain's insensativity.

Person A:

Just because it is considered perjorative in your country doesn't mean it is in ours.

Person B:

It's perjorative throughout the world.

Person A:

Here goes the Americans trying to push there morals on everyone.

Person B:

It's offensive.

Person A:

The Chinese have no problem with it.

Person B:

The Chinese in the diaspora do.

Person A:

But they aren't in China. This is for China and Spain only.

Person B:

But it is seen all over the world.

Person C:

You both are idiots!

:D



So is a Chinese company responsible for this too?
 
Great summary Czarkazem13, this is gonna be an infinite loop...
 
LuDux said:
Obviously they didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition
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Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!

....what? It was hard to resist.
 
OMG.... they are racist.... they hate China and Asians...... they want to kill everybody...
 
LOL, this reminds me of that South Park episode.

Cartman: "Kyle, I'm sorry for all the times I said you were a stupid Jew. I didn't mean it. You're not a Jew."

Kyle: "Cartman, I AM a Jew!"

Cartman: "No, no, don't be so hard on yourself, Kyle."



Well, my dear Cartmans and Jason Kidds of the world, what did we learn today? Exactly, there is nothing wrong in being Jewish. Yet racist people keep using it as a derogatory term, but for normal people, saying someone is a “Jew” is not supposed to be insulting.

In other words: if when looking at the Spanish team advert the only thing you can see is an insult, maybe the racist you are looking for is in your bathroom’s mirror.
 
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Czarkazem13 said:
Person B:

But it is seen all over the world.
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It's actually the UK/USA media showing it around the world, so this is actually one of the few times when killing the messenger is appropriate.
 
Genjuro said:
It's actually the UK/USA media showing it around the world, so this is actually one of the few times when killing the messenger is appropriate.
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Let's not forget the Canadian media, they're equally to blame!

Stuart
 
Billy said:
Well, they obvisouly want to kill peoples self esteem.

Murderers -all of them!
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Death by mocking!

Genjuro said:
It's actually the UK/USA media showing it around the world, so this is actually one of the few times when killing the messenger is appropriate.
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Wow...you actually went for that...:rolleyes:

Yep, just those two...

stuart said:
Let's not forget the Canadian media, they're equally to blame!

Stuart
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Captain CAAAVEMAAAAANNN!! said:
LOL, this reminds me of that South Park episode.

Cartman: "Kyle, I'm sorry for all the times I said you were a stupid Jew. I didn't mean it. You're not a Jew."

Kyle: "Cartman, I AM a Jew!"

Cartman: "No, no, don't be so hard on yourself, Kyle."



Well, my dear Cartmans and Jason Kidds of the world, what did we learn today? Exactly, there is nothing wrong in being Jewish. Yet racist people keep using it as a derogatory term, but for normal people, saying someone is a “Jew” is not supposed to be insulting.

In other words: if when looking at the Spanish team advert the only thing you can see is an insult, maybe the racist you are looking for is in your bathroom’s mirror.
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So what you are saying is that the Spanish teams were mocking racists???

I didn't know they had an agenda or were developing a satire. My bad.
 
Czarkazem13 said:
So what you are saying is that the Spanish teams were mocking racists???
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Nope. What I'm saying is this:
Captain CAAAVEMAAAAANNN!! said:
if when looking at the Spanish team advert the only thing you can see is an insult, maybe the racist you are looking for is in your bathroom’s mirror.
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Ok, I guess my confusion was that you put South Park as an example of basically the same thing as the Spanish tennis and basketball players. My bad, however I don't see the point of that example.

Stating that someone who sees a person/group make a perceived racist comment - whether there is intent or not - doesn't make the person who sees it racist. I don't see how you get that. And what does that have to do with South Park?

Now I'm ever more confused.:D
 
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