Más absurdo todavía...
Ahora resulta que en Portugal se han tomado fatal la broma de un periodista chino que, en su blog, colgó la siguiente foto.
Un toque de photoshop convirtió una bufanda de Portugal en una de "Colgate". Es un juego de palabras apenas gracioso para los chinos, pues en mandarín, Portugal es "Pu tao ya", que quiere decir "diente de uva". De ahí lo de Colgate... El caso es que el periodista chino, un tal Wang, ha decidido retirar la foto tras recibir ataques, amenazas y multitud de críticas contra el Gobierno chino sobre la situación en Tíbet y los derechos humanos, lo cual podría haberle causado problemas con las autoridades chinas.
El artículo del Daily Telegraph, que se acaba de subir a la burra, no tiene desperdicio:
Beijing Olympics: 'Slit-eyed' photos highlight racial
insensitivity
Photographs of Argentine athletes making slitty-eyed faces during the run up to the games in Beijing have highlighted the gulf between political correctness and the racial insensitivity prevalent in the Spanish speaking world.
By Fiona Govan, Madrid Correspondent
Last Updated: 5:40PM BST 19 Aug 2008
Spain's basketball team were the first to spark controversy at the start of the games when a photograph showing all 15 members pulling the skin around their eyes ran in a Spanish sports newspaper as part of a publicity stunt by the team's sponsors.
Several days later another photograph emerged of fellow Olympic athletics, this time tennis players, making the same gesture apparently during an earlier sporting event in China in April.
And yesterday members of the Argentine women's football team were the latest to be criticised after being
photographed making the same crude impression of their Chinese counterparts.
International uproar has led to perfunctory apologies from the players but there has been no outright condemnation of their actions except from abroad. Rather, there has been an atmosphere of surprise that such "humorous" actions could be misconstrued.
Players embroiled in the scandal have uniformly defended their actions claiming they did not realise such gestures would cause offence.
"It was supposed to be funny or something but never offensive in any way," said Spain's top basketball player Pau Gasol, who also plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. "I'm sorry if anybody took it the wrong way and thought that it was offensive."
Más, aqui: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2586096/Beijing-Olympics-Slit-eyed-photos-highlight-racial-insensitivity.html
Y aqui: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2581173/Beijing-Olympics-Now-Argentinas-footballers-photographed-making-slit-eyed-gesture.html
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Miguel-MKJ dijo
Es un tema que me escama bastante.
El problema que tienen ellos es que hay racistas en todos los grupos sociales. Los negros con los blancos, los blancos con los negros, los latinos con los blancos, los negros con los latinos, los hindúes con los paquistanís, etc.
Tienen que esconder su racismo en todo tipo de actuaciones políticamente correctas para que no se note lo que realmente son. Después, cuando en otro país del que no saben nada, se hace algo que ellos en sus países no hacen, pretenden juzgarnos bajo sus parámetros.
5 Diciembre 2008 | 11:21 AM