From The Guardian: Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation,... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Tue, Aug 12 2008
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NBA - The World's Best Basketball Players »
YouTube video A tribute to the USA Basketball team that will compete in the upcoming summer Olympic.
I believe that the US team is still the best in the world and will reclaim the Olympic gold medal in Beijing China...provided that Kobe Byant stays healthy. He is... |
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Should Spanish insensitivity be punished? » Shanghaiist That's the headline of a New York Times story about the controversy surrounding a now much-talked-about photo of the men's Olympic basketball team from Spain (See: "Spain's Olympic Basketball Team: Racist? Or just stupid?" for details). Oddly, the story... |
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Spanish teams show remarkable consistency » Shanghaiist Just when the story of Spain's basketball team's slanty-eyed mischief was on the verge of exiting the news cycles, it gets a dose of revitalization from the blogosphere...with a little assist from their countrymen/women. From Gawker: But maybe... |
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(Letter) Are you offended by this picture? » Blogging For China It’s apparently an advertisement in Spain’s best-selling newspaper. The Spanish Olympic basketball players, donned Li-Ning Spanish uniforms, are seen in this ad making slit-eyes gesture. Personally have seen children and pretty women whom I... |
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‘Friendly’ Offense: Spanish Gestures Fail to Rile China » China Journal Over the past couple of days, there’s been a global outcry over an ad that appeared in a Spanish newspaper that featured the national basketball teams pulling up the skin at their temples to give their eyes a slanted effect. Initially, the Spanish te... |
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China's women's basketball team reaches semis » Shanghaiist With its 77-62 win over Belarus Tuesday night, the Chinese women's basketball team has met coach Tom Maher's goal of reaching the Olympic semifinals. It is a vast improvement on the team's ninth-place finish in the 2004 and 1996 Olympics, and its failure... |
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