Different Spanish Team -- Same Racism

76. I don't think the picture was meant to be racist and because of that I don't think people should be offended. I'm not saying that it is something that should have been done, but I'm thinking Spain's teams just didn't really think it through. I know many people from Spain have a history of being racist but doing monkey calls and throwing a banana at black people and pulling your eyes up for a picture is not even close to being the same thing. Blacks have big lips, whites smell like a dog when they are wet, the french women have hairy arm pits, asians have slanted eyes....am I forgetting anybody? It's the truth, acting like it's not is childless and only hinders the idea of having "everybody get along". In my sociology class there was a few white kids that were never said anything when it came to the topic of race because they were scared to say something that may offend blacks, even when they weren't trying to be offensive (like saying black instead of African Amercican...). We have created an atmosphere where nobody can ever get along because people take things way too personally. Lighten up, the teams that took the pictures doing slanted eyes look ridiculous and stupid, no need to take it any farther than that.

Posted at 9:07PM on Aug 15th 2008 by Cassie

77. hmm...I'm Chinese and my eyes don't slant at all. In fact, they are
really round. I don't even look like the average Chinese person, and
I'm not mixed.. I heard about those Spanish monkey chant stuff from
yahoo answers. Seeing these pictures and reading the comments...
reminds of the Spanish guy in Barcelona from America's Next Top Model
who told the black competitor that he does not like kissing black
women. Never thought that people making slanted eyes could be so
offensive until these pictures came along.

Posted at 9:05PM on Aug 15th 2008 by LeLa

78. Brazilians are not like the rest of you Hispanics, there history, culture are not at all Spanish. The people of brasil are of European and African extraction.

Posted at 9:42PM on Aug 15th 2008 by Lugo

79. What do you expect from the trashiest country in European. These are the same morons who tried to exterminate the Indians of South & North America.

Posted at 9:46PM on Aug 15th 2008 by Donna

80. I feel special. Spain hates the whole world except for itself. I'm glad they chose to showcase their hate towards China and not anyone else. : )

Posted at 4:22PM on Aug 17th 2008 by Jessica

81. come on...that's not a big deal at all...there are sooo many other things in this country we should be focus on...

Posted at 11:15PM on Aug 15th 2008 by aba

82. I bet they won't think it's so funny the next time they get BOMBED and the rest of the world turns a blind eye to their pain. This kind of behavior should not be excepted in this day and age. SHAME ON SPAIN

Posted at 12:50AM on Aug 16th 2008 by Justin Garey

83.

HUMOR IS VEILED HOSTILITY

PSYCHOLOGY 101

And the people who claim this is much ado about nothing are neither Asian nor enlightened to other people's sensitivities...

Posted at 2:18AM on Aug 16th 2008 by Grow a Brain, People

84. Mi ingles es pesimo asi que voy a decirlo en español. El que vea un gesto racista en esta foto tiene un serio problema mental, es mas, deberia ir al psicologo y hacerselo mirar.Ya veo que nadie ha querido comentar la foto de los americanos en Japon, eso si que fue ofensivo y los japoneses exigieron una rectificacion que no se hizo. Parece mentira que eso lo diga el pueblo americano , que tiene mucho que callar, que le pregunten sino a los nativos americanos, a los afroamericanos, o a los latinos que siguen siendo pisoteados y despreciados por muchos de ellos. Un pais en el que aun existe el ku klux klan deberia pensarselo mejor antes de decir nada sobre otro pais del que no sabe ni donde esta.

Most of the comments of this page are very racist about spanish people
Los americanos y su doble moral.

Posted at 5:12AM on Aug 16th 2008 by shame

85.
All of you americans are all so retarded?
Remember ku klux klan
Remember hiroshima and nagasaki
Remember all native americans
Remeber afroamericans

Posted at 5:18AM on Aug 16th 2008 by estadounidenses

86. You Americans are just ABSURD. It was you who had slaves (guess who the racists are????). Can you call such a pic a racist one, while you are afraid to say black and call a person born and bred in the US an "African" American??? African WHAT???? Say black, and get over that, dude. You're absuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurd.

Posted at 11:44AM on Aug 16th 2008 by Rosanna

87. I would expect nothing less from a country that erased entire cultures in North and South America. Systematically killing, enslaving, raping the Native Americans out of extinction to feed their greed and lust for gold.

Isn't like 50% of Spain on welfare? They're probably just upset that their country is no longer of any relevance in international politics or economics.

Posted at 12:31PM on Aug 16th 2008 by Pamela Yeh

88. wat i say is that if ur going to be stupid do something to ur self.....and not about other people!!! D:

Posted at 12:36PM on Aug 16th 2008 by elmofan3296

89. "killing, enslaving, raping the Native Americans" are you talking about your own country? the USA
"their country is no longer of any relevance in international politics or economics." The United States are the most hated country in the world and his relevance is based in destroy and kill people in a ilegal war.
Why dont you look in your country before to criticize another country ?
Seguro que ni siquiera sabes donde esta España , que poca verguenza de tia.
Podemos hablar de la maravillosa seguridad social de tu pasis, no te jode..

Posted at 1:45PM on Aug 16th 2008 by lo que hay que leer

90. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL YOU RACIST MOTHER FKRS,YOU ALL TALKING LOTS OF S....T ABOUT MY COUNTRY AND PEOPLE AND THINK THAT IS OK,YOU ALL MAKE ME SICK,THE ARE MORE RACIST PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT IN ANYPLACE IN THE WORLD,WE ARE NOT CRY BABIES LIKE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY AND WE HAVE MORE COJONES THAN ALL OF YOU,WE DO NOT LET ANY COUNTRY INTIMEDATE US OR BULLY US NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY HAVE,HOW MUCH MONEY OR POWER THE HAVE.KISS MY VERYYYYYYYYYYYY PROUD SPANISH ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Posted at 2:13PM on Aug 16th 2008 by ANGELA