Spain Men's Basketball Team Controversy Photo |
 Aug 13 2008, 07:32 PM
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 ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,309 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,593  |
 BEIJING - Lakers superstar Pau Gasol and his Spanish Olympic teammates have found themselves in the middle of an international controversy after appearing making slit-eyed gestures in a newspaper advertisement that some Asian groups in both North America and Asia have characterized as racist. Gasol and the Spanish basketball team appeared in a full page ad for a courier company using their fingers to make the gestures while posing in their national team uniforms on a court with a Chinese dragon center circle. The ad appeared in Marca, a national sports daily and Spain's best-selling newspaper. An ad showing the Spanish women's team making similar gestures also appeared in the newspaper. I'm not sure what to say about this. I'm like in between on this. What do you guys think. |
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Aug 13 2008, 07:36 PM
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wow ... idk what to say? it depends on what they were trying to do. i dont think it was meant to be negative. it was posted on newspapers at china for reasons. if it was straight-out negative and disrespectful, then they probably wouldnt published it?
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Aug 13 2008, 07:37 PM
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٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,309 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,593 |
Yes. “We did it because we thought it was going to be something nice, something with no problem,” Calderon told Yahoo! Sports. “But somebody wants to talk about it. It is too much of a big deal with you guys (the media) and everybody talking about that.” “If I go to play with a taller team and I put here (raising up on the tips of his toes) it is not an offense,” Reneses said. “I can’t understand anything more.” “Some of us didn’t feel comfortable doing it just because to me it was a little clownish for our part to be doing that,” Gasol said. “But the sponsors insisted and insisted. I think it is just a bad idea I guess to do that, but it was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody. “I didn’t find it very funny. I didn’t find it offensive, either. I guess some guys didn’t mind. To me I don’t want to be that way, I guess, to be doing that stuff. “If anybody feels offended by it we totally apologize for it. We never meant anything offensive by it.” The thing I don't get is, if Gasol was uncomfortable with doing it, why do it at all? He's a grown man, and not a 5 year old who has to listen to this photographer. QUOTE(demolished @ Aug 13 2008, 05:36 PM)  wow ... idk what to say? it depends on what they were trying to do. i dont think it was meant to be negative. it was posted at newspapers in china for reasons. if it was straight-out negative and disrespectful, then they probably wouldnt published it? There's been talks that they were being racist without knowing they were being racist LOL |
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Aug 13 2008, 07:41 PM
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 Photoartist Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,363 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 399,390 |
I mean, I don't blame them for wanting to be Asian. Even tryna have a dragon in the court and everythang. I don't really see what's the big deal.
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Aug 13 2008, 07:41 PM
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 I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
i don't think they meant any harm in doing it. at the same time, they're stupid for thinking it wasn't gonna be any big deal.
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Aug 13 2008, 07:43 PM
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 Hello Newman. Group: Member Posts: 912 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 578,620 |
^ Yeah, I agree.
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Aug 13 2008, 07:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
I think they were trying to be part of the culture. although i don't like the whole "chinky eye" thing, but it's normal for people to look at Asian in a certain way because that's how Asians are stereotyped and people take it as a fact.
QUOTE(Tungster @ Aug 13 2008, 05:37 PM) There's been talks that they were being racist without knowing they were being racist LOL wow. really? Where can i read the article? thanks. |
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Aug 13 2008, 07:56 PM
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 Mais je ne l'aime pas Group: Member Posts: 971 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,135 |
I think the ad was done in poor taste.
Even if those who are involved didn't mean it to be offensive, they should have known the worst possible repercussion that could come out of it. I think this is the article that he's talking about, demolished: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/b...?urn=oly,100152 |
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Aug 13 2008, 08:13 PM
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 That's what she said. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,559 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 130,200 |
I'm not offended by this. Perhaps they were just trying to fit into the event and thought it was all in good fun since they were playing in China.
But if that's the case, I think they should've done it differently because it was bound to cause some type of conflict this way.
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Aug 13 2008, 08:37 PM
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 cheeeesy like theres no tomorrow Group: Member Posts: 3,316 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 37,142 |
this is the controversy ! wow i read an article but i didnt know what they were talking about. kinda shocked again. youd think olympics would be a time where everybody would be civilized. ugh. the world is just that disgusting.
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Aug 13 2008, 08:49 PM
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Banned Group: Banned Posts: 700 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 658,432 |
Who gives a shit
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Aug 14 2008, 02:42 AM
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 we jerkin' Group: Member Posts: 2,408 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 210,730 |
they wish they had asian eyes.whats the big deal.
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Aug 14 2008, 02:46 AM
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 ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ Group: Official Member Posts: 1,403 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 12,173 |
The US is nitpicking...why can't they just enjoy the Olympics. BY THE WAY, Koreans have smaller eyes than the Chinese!!
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Aug 14 2008, 07:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
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Aug 14 2008, 07:52 PM
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 R U A Q T ? [; Group: Official Member Posts: 7,276 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 421,631 |
hah, i heard about this on nicekicks; http://www.nicekicks.com/spanish-basketbal...r-racist-photo/
i think this is pretty stupid. don't why they'd do that but i'm not offended  oh and LOL@SALLY.QUOTE(salcha4u @ Aug 14 2008, 12:46 AM) BY THE WAY, Koreans have smaller eyes than the Chinese!! 
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Aug 14 2008, 08:01 PM
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 DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
I think that even though it was stupid of them, it wasn't intentionally done to be racist.
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