Spanish Basketball Olympic Team accused of racism but guilty of stupidity
Spanish media took a picture from the Spanish Basketball team and they decided that it would be funny to act 'Chinese' in the picture. Maybe it was funny at the moment, now is just giving them a big headache. As The Guardian informed they weren't being consciously racist, but probably pretty stupid.Since I saw the news in The Guardian I have began reading in different Chinese media (and international media too) an increasing attack against the team. I am convinced it was not a clever think to do and not exactly disrespectful, however, thanks to the media, this is being magnified and exaggerated.
The way Spaniards are pictured in most countries all over the world have always been and probably will continue to be through stupid topics (many times these are not even true). You shall think this is not the same as talking about race, it is about culture, and in many places around the world people takes culture and traditions more than seriously, and Spaniards don't make an international issue about it.
The team shouldn't have done that, but little stupid things can NOT be used as an excuse every now and then to create a conflict. People worldwide have to learn respect and, more important, to be able to go through misunderstandings and differences.
This would help us all.
Picture from The Guardian.
Labels: Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, china, media, racism, Spain
by noiblau
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Good afternoon Mr and Ms,
I am a Spanish people who are very upset and fed up of your insults against us. Yes, I am speaking about your invented lies about Spanish basketball players photo as a racist photo, this ridiculous insult that you invented for attacking Spain unfairly as usually you do, and in that group of lies is USA adding to your unfair insults. The photo just show that they were going to China Olimpic Games, oohh! Where are you seeing the racist intention?, so maybe you look for more depth than anyone, I don’t think so. You have a really problem with racist, you see racism in anyone, probably is because you have this problem not us. The same stupid problem you did too with Hamilton in Montmelo, ridiculous. NOBODY IS DOING NOTHING RACIST AGAINST HAMILTON OR CHINESE PEOPLE in Spain . If you don’t know China laughed about this stupid insults against us, they saw the famous photo and they think the same, the real meaning of that photo. A group of players who were very happy and nervous to go to Olimpic Games in CHINA .
It is very ridiculous to hear this insults coming from GB and USA , big racist countries, hooligans, do you remember how many people killed and hit?,…and I don’t want to speak about USA. GB is not a powerful country but with the support of USA , you can reach a lot of things, but I don’t want to know what helps USA asked for you. USA is the most powerful country in the world, for that anything speak bad about them, but GB, anyone knows that in Europe is the most hated country, because you are selfish, self centered, blind, unfair players,...
If you don’t know Spain is the country in Europe with the most numbers of Chinese children were adopted, is the country who is giving more money to poor countries,…These are just some examples that you can’t say. Like the amount of people that is hit or kill in the street because of they are not white skinned or English nacionality, so I can know because I read your newspapers, like Spanish, Italian,…Maybe you have to close your big mouth a little more and forget us a lot, because we never think in you, so we don’t care if you are alive or death, so start to do the same with us, it is very easy, you have to come back to primary school and learn goods behaviours and polites. Try to do, probably you are going to be happier, in Spain the people are very happy, maybe because we learn these moods before you. You know that every day is coming foreigners peoples without visa to Spain, illegal people and we care them, give the medicines and food, but there are millions of them and we have not more space and we are returning them to their countries, are you helping us? Are you doing something? Are you helping them?, please hypocresy is your first skill, liar is the second and blind the first. It is entering to Spain amounts of inmigrants every day more than the inmigrants are going to the rest of the Europe , ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING? ARE YOU THINKING REALLY IN RACISM? Please, please shut up and follow my advice.
I were living in England 4 years ago 6 months learning English. I were living in a city with 60.000 inhabitants, so very small city. And I came back to my country really scared, one german friend was hit very hard for skin head people in this small city, because he wasn’t English. Every country have problems with racism but England I think have more problems with racist people in Europe, maybe you can find insane people in big cities, but in a city with a amount of inhabitants like a village, if they have this problems I can’t imagine in the rest of the country, with that example I have enough. Like this poor brazilian that was killed so hard in 7th july, because he looked like muslim and nobody said nothing?, you have a really problem with racism. CE advise you not too much time ago UK have to finished their problem with racism, and do you know something, nobody have said nothing to Spain, and one more, you are the only one. Do you know? I think that your eyes is seeing racism anywhere because you are racists. Do you remember something very famous in UK , Spanish haunting? Do you remember? Some of my friend live that party that you have, this is you real problem, UK is very racist, very dangerous country for foreigners people, I were really afraid to you.
I am starting to think that GB are envy of Spain, but very hard problem, so I can understand that a country like GB have that feelings, it is normal, but please forget us, because we don’t know if you exist or not, so we don’t care nothing about you, so you are not important in our life, or economy or anything in this country or CE. We have good and bad weather (skiing and beach), one of the best cuisines in the world, freedom, happy people, work, …I can understand why are you envy.
Now you have to apologize to Spain and Spanish players, because they deserve for being insulted so unfair like you do. We are fed up and tired to hear your insults, Spain don’t say nothing don’t insult you, give explains so polite but you just insult without any proof. We are fed up, FORGET US.
A very upset reader who deserve respect.
I am Spanish, you should have had a better reading of the article, I just pointed out that it was something stupid to do because it's an action easily attacked, as it happened.
I have to tell you that I live in Shanghai, China, and I do know how Chinese people have dealt with the incident, and they are not angry, as you mention, but also not happy. In China if you are not careful, this things can be spread easily in a bad way, and their bullying can affect a country quite negatively.
However your comment don't show, in my opinion, any of the respect you claim for us. We should lead by example, not reproducing somebody else's errors.
Anyway, I am glad you wrote what you were thinking.
Saludos!
Estimado upset reader, se ve que los meses en el Reino Unido no te sirvieron para más que para coger manía a los británicos.
Desde luego una petición de respeto y de sentido común como la de este último post no debería ser atacada con una diatriba sobre el racismo en Gran Bretaña (aunque sea cierta), primero porque no viene a cuento y segundo porque va en contra de lo que pides. Así que a ver si te aclaras.
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