Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas is a news article by Sid Lowe of The Guardian. As follows:
"Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures...Really Spain? Really? Haha wow. That's the best part of the article there, NO ONE in the entire editorial process thought this could possibly be construed as offensive. From both teams of players to the photographers to the editors. Slam dunk, baloncestho. You win today's TOTI.
No one involved in the advert appears to have considered it inappropriate nor contemplated the manner in which it could be interpreted in China and elsewhere. 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."
(From my friend Clayton)
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I second Daniel.
I'm not surprised in the least bit either. Political correctness is not so in vogue in Spain.
To the average Spaniard, anyone with slit eyes is a "chino" regardless if they are ethnically Japanese, Laotion, Chinese, etc etc.
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