Spain Basketball Team pictured in Controversial Pose.

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It's just a joke folks, the sooner you can learn to laugh about silly things like this the sooner it'll fade into nothing.

blah blah blah who cares, there messing around. its not like stretching your eyes is a hate crime. this is along the lines of someone telling a white person they cant jump or something like that. who gives a ****

[QUOTE=dr8ked][IMG]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2008/08/10/spanishbasketballteam.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This isn't offensive but neither is it funny. Not sure what the point of this photo is exactly...

Its not racist, just in very bad taste.

Now the Chinese are going to do it to us by holding their eyes open and talking about hamburgers... it was like knocking over a domino :lol then we make fun of someone else

I would categorize this as ignorant, not racist. Doesn't make it any more of a good idea.

Spain does have a history of being racist ****s, though.

[QUOTE=vinsane01]i hate sensitive people... if everyone were blacks and chinese, there will be no fun in this world.[/QUOTE]


As you are probably white, and never encounter racism, shut the **** up.

[QUOTE=picc84]I would categorize this as ignorant, not racist. Doesn't make it any more of a good idea.

Spain does have a history of being racist ****s, though.[/QUOTE]What are you talking about idiot.Shut up ignorant.

[QUOTE=starface]so what?

people are WAY too sensitive these days.

what if they were playing ireland and they all wore orange mops on their heads? bet everyone here would think its funny and not gravely offensive.

for some reason i guess its off-limits to make fun of blacks, chinese, and mexicans. why? its not like the spanish team is burning their houses down. they're ribbing them over the stereotype of their eyes. big deal.

people just seem to LOOK for reasons to cry and get offended these days. seriously, get real.[/QUOTE]

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I initially thought they were making fun of Team USA by pointing to their brains

[QUOTE]The Spanish-language paper El Mundo has a piece debating whether the ad was racist that basically calls out the British press for trying to smear Spain's good name. But they miss the point. Whether the picture was made in good fun is irrelevant. It was a ridiculous idea that was bound to upset a lot of people.

It's baffling that nobody involved in the picture -- from the photographers to the players -- even seemed to consider that this ad would be looked at negatively. Did it not occur to somebody that it might not be a good idea to mock an entire continent before the world's largest athletic competition that, by the way, happens to take place on that continent. Were they not aware of an invention called "the Internet" that allows pictures taken in Spain to be transmitted all over the world for the eyes of everyone?[/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE=TBurge]As you are probably white, and never encounter racism, shut the **** up.[/QUOTE]

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Jose Calderon on the picture....
[url]http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080813-154329/Spanish-basketball-star-defends-slit-eyed-team-photo[/url]

[QUOTE=kentatm]i'm lazy and this is the exact same post i've made elsewhere on this but here is my take

i havent seen somebody do that since I was in middle school. pretty dumb on their part. very childish.

HOWEVER, once again people seem to not understand what the word racist/racism means



making fake Asian eyes accomplishes none of those things.

so is it rude and mildly offensive? yea. racist? not so much.[/QUOTE]

I hate people who think the dictionary can define a word like "racism." It's like defining "emotions," "happy," or "sad." Sure you can point to a general idea or conception, but those words mean very different to everyone. Webster to Wikipedia will have different styles of categorizing these emotions and beliefs...because that's what they are. They're not scientific words constricted to the laws of some book published. Which is why language was meant to be interpreted in all different ways. Which is why we have people today arguing over literature and scriptures because meanings apply differently to others. For you to think that it's some sort of formula you can apply is inherently wrong and inherently narrow-minded.

At the end of the day, people are not going to care about this in America. It's become socially acceptable to degrade and belittle Asians and other tertiary race in America. And that's the way it is and it will be for a long time. Maybe ignorance and disbelief in humanity (sample size of this board) has made me bitter, but it's a truth and reality I've noticed. I've done my battles for it in the past, but what's the point when people continue to be as ignorant as they are? People on this board can't even VIRTUALLY get together, how they ever going to embrace ideals in real life?

It's funny because our USA team is fulled of mix cultures and mixed people, which is supposed to give us an edge, supposed to seem coherent..Working together cohesively for a common goal. That's what we should be representing when we look at the US flag. It's what makes us "advanced" even. It's this ideal that should bring about disdain and disgust to what the Spanish team..but instead we're just like "**** it, it wasn't my race or my life." or whatever NIMBY response people put out. And that's ok, because we all knew America was actually far from the ideal it professes.

As far this Spanish team is concerned, whatever. It's not as if my little post in this inconsequential board will do anything. People will continue to ignore because it's what they're accustomed to doing with Asian cultures. I stand in disgust, and maybe as long as I find integrity in myself, that is all that's sufficient.

as a chinese canadian, personally i am ok with it.. but i can understand why so many people is upset..

it's the Olympics, so every news is brow out of proportion, and all medias would like to report controversy.