Spanish Ad Spurs Charges of Racism

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The Inquisition, What A Show...
Published 8/13/2008 by The Baker (noreply@blogger.com) at Rumors and Rants
Horry Cow! The Spanish are racists? Who know? Um, pretty much everyone on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Spanish athletics have, pardon the word usage, a pretty large black-eye when it comes to tolerance. And that tradition continues. Prior to leaving for Beijing the Spanish men's basketball team posed in an ad for a Spanish version of UPS. No, they didn't ask what yellow could do for you. Instead, each player put their fingers to the corner of their eyes and gave themselves the "squinty-eye look," with a dragon emblem in front ...

I.O.C., Player responses to controversial “racist” Spanish Ad
Published 8/14/2008 by editor at Interbasket
... anybody.” The Toronto PG defended his team’s intentions,“We have great respect for the far East and its people, some of my best friends in Toronto are originally Chinese” Calderon wrote. “Whoever wants to interpret it differently is completely confusing it.” The Spain-Chinese Connection It turns out, as we spoke upon in an earlier article, that the ad was done for a Chinese company.  In fact, it was Li Ning’s sports apparel company, which is apparently huge in China. According to this , Li Ning’s company has a sponsorship contract with the Spanish National Team until 2012, ...