15 Aug 08
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Originally posted by lordhighgusHow is making one's eyes slits 'racist', 'derogatory' or 'denigrating' in any way?
In Australia it would be seen as racist and derogatory towards people of Asian descent. Why not there??
If you are deliberatley denigrating people of a certain ethnicity, that is racist. Those basketballers were making their eyes "slits".
Now unless there was a truck load of direct sunlight in these guys faces at the time, they were being rude and deserve censure.
15 Aug 08
Originally posted by SeitseTell your storey walking dropkick!!
Because Australia is not the world's leader?
Because Australia does not dictate what the world should feel and think?
Because nobody cares what Australians think?
Because Spaniards are not as moronic as Australians?
Please pick the one you fancy the most.
In Australia today you could not get away with a dumb photo like that without some serious lawsuits.
No we do not dictate what the world should feel and think but we try to give all a fair go. Try it sometime.
This is the first time i have read a major malfunction in your ethos in posting, so i gather it is just you, not the Spanish nation.
Be fair and equitable to all it it is returned.
15 Aug 08
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Originally posted by lordhighgusNo, dude, I'm afraid you're not getting it. Let me explain...
Tell your storey walking dropkick!!
In Australia today you could not get away with a dumb photo like that without some serious lawsuits.
No we do not dictate what the world should feel and think but we try to give all a fair go. Try it sometime.
This is the first time i have read a major malfunction in your ethos in posting, so i gather it is just you, not the Spanish nation.
Be fair and equitable to all it it is returned.
Spain, almost as in my native country (somewhere in Latin America), has a mixed society. European, African & Asian blood, in some apparent from the face, in other it's not.
So, in countries like my native country, where all colors co-exist and discrimination arises from social position but not race, it is perfectly normal to refer to other by physical appearance. I would not do it here in FInland, same as I did not do it when I lived in the U.S., but back in my native land you can call people by their color: "hey, yellow", "what's up, blackie", "hey, pale face", etc. etc.
As long as it is in a friendly voice, nobody takes it badly, as there is no connotation of 'I am superior' or 'you are inferior'. It operates the same with other features, e.g. "what's up, fatso?", "hey, big ears", etc.
It's like as if the country as not taken a bite of the fruit from the tree of good & evil, hence it does not realize it is naked. Australia has, fair enough, but why force the Spaniards to do it?
I can tell you 100% sure that they did not mean harm.
Edit. Just a clarification: I do not apply those standards in my life, and that is why I am one the first to get all touchy feely when I smell racism, e.g. here in RHP. That is, my standards are 100% Western, same as yours. All I am saying is that those basketball players didn't do it in a racist way.