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Jamaica: Racism in Sport

Friday, August 15th, 2008 @ 12:50 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

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Countries:: China, Jamaica, Spain
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Diaspora, Ethnicity, History, Media, Racism, Sport
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Following the controversy about an ad in which the Spanish Olympic basketball team is shown forcibly slanting their eyes, Can a Jamaican take Cali? is convinced that Spain “has made a sport of racism!”, while Babalu wonders whether it is simply a case of “the Spanish have their own brand of humor, just as we Cubans have our own brand of humor that is not meant to offend, but those unfamiliar with our culture might construe as offensive.”

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