Please guys, you’re just embarrassing yourselves
A few days ago, Spain’s Basketball team highlighted their nation’s ‘poor record for racial sensitivity’ by posing with slit-eye gestures for an advert in a Spanish newspaper. Yesterday, Jose Calderon told us the photo was ‘appropriate’ and the rest of the world is ‘absolutely confused’, and now The Telegraph have discovered the photo above on the Spanish Tennis Federation’s website.
The snap, running with the caption “we are prepared for China” on the Spanish website, includes female tennis players Llagostera Vives, Medina Garrigue and Suarez-Navarro - all of whom are competing in Beijing. It was taken ahead of a Federation Cup match against China in April.
Have you seen any other pictures like this? Are you an insensitive Spaniard not scared of being exposed online? Send us your snaps here, folks.
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11 responses so far
1 Spain (European Union) // Aug 15, 2008 at 10:00 am
Only who is a truly racist would consider that photo is an offense
2 Ruba // Aug 15, 2008 at 10:27 am
My parents, who are Chinese, recently visited Spain, and surprise surprise no-one made this gesture at them or in their presence.
There’s a reason this ad only appeared in Spain … This Calderon guy can shove his ’solidarity’ up his clacker. ‘But some of my best friends are X’ - breakfast of racists!
3 jimmy page // Aug 15, 2008 at 3:05 pm
These spanish are the shit of the world , where will this end ?? IGNORANT 3RD WORLD RACISTS !!!!
4 lol // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Is that where Our money going to! feed these racist useless people? Ever sense they joined the EU! I want Our government to stop giving money to EU so they could give to these backward country!
5 A todos // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Intentad no escribir en estos medios porque se nutren economicamente de los comentarios que ponemos. No merece la pena seguirles el juego. Tras el impacto mediático del primer foro han abierto dos más para llenarse los bolsillos por la publicidad.
6 Biff Muscleworth // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Oh nooooo! The Spanish placed their fingers against their eyelids! Let’s overreact and be horribly offended by proxy, even though we aren’t affected in the slightest by this!
Idiots.
7 Thomas // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I’m Korean. I remember in 2002 when Korea beat Spain in the World cup, Spanish news papers ran cartoons of Koreans with stereotypical Asian feautres. So I’m not surprised a backward cunt-ry like that would do stuff like this. The amazing thing is, while the rest of the world carries on about how racist it is, the Spanish just seem puzzled(Like compared to monkey chants and bananna throwing, this is nothing!) . I like the Spanish. They’re entertaining.
8 jesus // Aug 16, 2008 at 4:56 am
spain’s football team has so much more class
i would make lisp jokes but then i love la seleccion!
9 JIMMY PAGE // Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm
spain is a dump.
10 manny // Aug 19, 2008 at 9:22 pm
ya dumasses are fucken stupid y u tryn 2 be sumtn u ain’t idiots
11 Anon // Nov 13, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Biff Muscleworth, why don’t you tell us your nationality so that we can make racially inappropriate gestures at you, you moronic, insensitive, dick-prick loser.