Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Argentina Joins the 'Slit-eyed' Club

Spain's basketball team were the first to spark controversy at the start of the games with a photograph showing all 15 members pulling the skin around their eyes...
Several days later another photograph emerged of Spanish tennis players making the same gesture apparently during an earlier sporting event in China in April.
Yesterday members of the Argentine women's football team were the latest to be criticized after being photographed making the same crude impression of their Chinese counterparts.
Photographs of Argentine athletes making slit-eyed faces during the run up to the games in Beijing have highlighted the gulf between political correctness and the racial insensitivity prevalent in the Spanish speaking world.
more HERE

Gee, I wonder if we can collect every nation doing it?

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