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The Beijing Olympics – a never ending source of stupid controversy
By Brian | August 13, 2008 | Share on Facebook
Man…every time I think I’ve done my last post on a quasi-controversy coming out of the Summer Olympics, something new comes up. Now there’s this:
That’s the Spanish basketball team in an ad campaign for the Spanish courier service, Seur, which ran in the Spanish language newspaper La Marca. The players are using their fingers to make their eyes look slanted. Get it? They’re trying to look Chinese! Because, you know, the entire Spanish basketball team is made up of extraordinarily tall eighth graders…
Spanish newspapers are currently debating whether the ad is racist, Chinese-American groups are denouncing the ad, and there’s talk of whether this will hurt Spain’s chance of landing the 2016 games (answer: it won’t). The group actually played China in basketball today, beating them 85-75 in overtime. Apparently, the usually reserved Chinese crowd booed them vigorously during the game. (via)
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