Comments on: Oh My: Spain Shows Us How They Feel About The Chinese http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:10:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: el gringuito en DF http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14178 el gringuito en DF Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:06:36 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14178 Whoops! I can't even spell my own fake name correctly! ¡Qué vergüenza! Aw well, nobody's reading this shit anyhow 2 months after the fact... Whoops! I can’t even spell my own fake name correctly! ¡Qué vergüenza! Aw well, nobody’s reading this shit anyhow 2 months after the fact…

]]> By: el gringito en DF http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14177 el gringito en DF Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:23:40 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14177 What annita, Ego, and lol might not recognize is that big metro areas of the US like CA and NY have diverse and cosmopolitan populations including Asians, not just 1st-generation immigrants, but people whose families have been in the US for 5 or more generations. They got tired of this sort of "Wow, we've never seen one of those people, let's act like total dipshits and let them know how ignorant we really are" bullshit and have been asserting their right to be treated with dignity and respect, as first-class citizens for at least the last 40 years. This after enduring segregation, mob violence, de facto slavery, exclusion, concentration camps, and all sorts of other insults (ex: Mr. Magoo cartoons). This does not deny that Latinos in the US have a similar, if not longer history. I don't know about Spain or Latin American cities beyond Mexico City, but while DF has an Asian population, it appears to be entirely isolated from mainstream Mexican society. Mexico boasts an impressive regional and indigenous diversity, but it's not very cosmopolitan (as in "comfortable relating to someone who's physically and culturally different from me as an equal"). Call that "political correctness", if you want. I call it cosmopolitanism, and I think it's a good thing. What annita, Ego, and lol might not recognize is that big metro areas of the US like CA and NY have diverse and cosmopolitan populations including Asians, not just 1st-generation immigrants, but people whose families have been in the US for 5 or more generations.

They got tired of this sort of “Wow, we’ve never seen one of those people, let’s act like total dipshits and let them know how ignorant we really are” bullshit and have been asserting their right to be treated with dignity and respect, as first-class citizens for at least the last 40 years. This after enduring segregation, mob violence, de facto slavery, exclusion, concentration camps, and all sorts of other insults (ex: Mr. Magoo cartoons). This does not deny that Latinos in the US have a similar, if not longer history.

I don’t know about Spain or Latin American cities beyond Mexico City, but while DF has an Asian population, it appears to be entirely isolated from mainstream Mexican society. Mexico boasts an impressive regional and indigenous diversity, but it’s not very cosmopolitan (as in “comfortable relating to someone who’s physically and culturally different from me as an equal”). Call that “political correctness”, if you want. I call it cosmopolitanism, and I think it’s a good thing.

]]> By: lol http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14176 lol Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:16:57 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14176 the american/british's hypercrite is more dangerous than that.... the american/british’s hypercrite is more dangerous than that….

]]> By: Ego http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14175 Ego Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:45:08 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14175 I want to comment on annita´s is not just that US is politically correct, it is that the US is obsessed with being politically correct, they try find faults everywhere. In Spain and Latin America this picture was no big deal because it was clear that the players were showing that they were going to blend in the east, that they were begining their chinese adventure and were going to have fun. And in my opinion to show someone´s differences is not racism, it would be so if they were mocking or hurting or discriminating someone because being different. Now, I have to admit that Spain as a nation have serious racists issues, but believe me if they want to "hurt" a chinese person they would use their fists.... literally, they would not be fooling around I want to comment on annita´s
is not just that US is politically correct, it is that the US is obsessed with being politically correct, they try find faults everywhere.
In Spain and Latin America this picture was no big deal because it was clear that the players were showing that they were going to blend in the east, that they were begining their chinese adventure and were going to have fun.
And in my opinion to show someone´s differences is not racism, it would be so if they were mocking or hurting or discriminating someone because being different.
Now, I have to admit that Spain as a nation have serious racists issues, but believe me if they want to “hurt” a chinese person they would use their fists…. literally, they would not be fooling around

]]> By: annita http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14174 annita Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:13:43 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14174 I think we have to keep in mind that perhaps the rest of the world is not as politically correct as the US.... I live in latinamerica...and in my country its quite common to call people from chinnese descent Chinita or chinito just to give an example..and nobody gets offended. I think we have to keep in mind that perhaps the rest of the world is not as politically correct as the US….

I live in latinamerica…and in my country its quite common to call people from chinnese descent Chinita or chinito just to give an example..and nobody gets offended.

]]> By: Janie A Go-Go http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14173 Janie A Go-Go Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:44:27 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14173 I think it wasn't made in a malicious sense. Silly, yes, but maybe the Spanish have a better sense of humor. Chill out, keep buying lead paint toys, nothing to see here. I think it wasn’t made in a malicious sense. Silly, yes, but maybe the Spanish have a better sense of humor.

Chill out, keep buying lead paint toys, nothing to see here.

]]> By: Janie A Go-Go http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14172 Janie A Go-Go Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:42:57 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14172 I think it wasn't made in a malicious sense. Silly, yes, but maybe the Spanish have a better sense of humor. Chill out, keep buying lead paint toys, nothing to see here. I think it wasn’t made in a malicious sense. Silly, yes, but maybe the Spanish have a better sense of humor.

Chill out, keep buying lead paint toys, nothing to see here.

]]> By: Emmy http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14171 Emmy Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:25:42 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14171 Maybe they are trying to one-up the Spanish futbol fans who threw bananas at Thierry Henry. Maybe they are trying to one-up the Spanish futbol fans who threw bananas at Thierry Henry.

]]> By: zzzzzzzz http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14170 zzzzzzzz Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:35:19 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14170 uggh i hate racism uggh i hate racism

]]> By: jpastor http://guanabee.com/2008/08/oh-my-spain-shows-us-how-they-feel-about-the-chinese/#comment-14169 jpastor Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:09:00 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=4297#comment-14169 OMG! OMG!

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