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See the Olympics: Offensive Advertisment

By Diana Jou - Aug 13th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

The Spanish basketball team makes slit-eye gestures for an advertisement for their official Olympic sponsor.

Thanks, Poplicks.

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  1. Annika says:

    Wow. Just–wow. That’s really ridiculous.

    August 13th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
  2. lolcakes says:

    pau gasol on the right

    August 14th, 2008 at 12:56 am
  3. Capitol Dome says:

    When I first heard about this, I had two questions: Are most of the complaints coming from westerners or from Chinese media? Though this obviously wouldn’t fly in the U.S., is this sort of racial imitation considered acceptable in Spain?

    August 14th, 2008 at 9:35 am

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