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Serbian Volleyball Team Strikes Racist Pose After Victory
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TheBryanJZX90
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Growing up in the Serb community of St. Louis, I'm not gonna argue with this
Not you, the real Asian woman... Slayven.
Etrian Oddity
Member
The foxiest geisha girl I've ever seen!
Col WillieSharp
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During the Rio Olympics, we'd have the games on in the office during the day, so I ended up seeing a bunch of Serbian women's volleyball. Their player, Brankica Mihajlović, awoke something in me I didn't know existed. I figured once the Olympics were over, she'd fade from my memory.....
That's it.
go on?
SuperBanana
Banned
Serbs being racist arseholes? Well that's just unheard of!
Vegetable Lasagna
Member
Has anyone defended this yet? Because I have some talking points.
Culture something something. Not racism, but nationalism something something. Being naïve isn't racism and they're clearly just having innocent fun. You only think it's racist because you live in a racist American society something something. Tradition something something. I have a bunch of Serbian friends that are of Asian decent and they don't think it's racist at all something something. Any of those work? No? Lame.
Culture something something. Not racism, but nationalism something something. Being naïve isn't racism and they're clearly just having innocent fun. You only think it's racist because you live in a racist American society something something. Tradition something something. I have a bunch of Serbian friends that are of Asian decent and they don't think it's racist at all something something. Any of those work? No? Lame.
Stereogatari
Banned
These countries don't have the concept that these things are rude like we have in the West. It's not the same as someone from America or Western Europe doing it for example. Because there it is definitely established as a racist thing due to significant minority communities with Far Eastern racial features.
Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Not defending it, but from growing up in Spain I can at least tell you that it is not done with any mockery or malice. Its mostly ignorance because there are not a lot of Asian people around, in America more people have the chance to be more educated on the subject.
crimzonflame
Member
How did I know what it was going to be before clicking on this thread?
playingwithfire
Member
I used to do this when I was like 4
Yikes
Switzerland is very Christian overall, about three quarters. Lotta Catholics in particular.
Switzerland is very Christian overall, about three quarters. Lotta Catholics in particular.
Stupid, unnecessary racism.
I agree with some posters about the rural America comparisson. In this day and age with all the social media stuff it would've been cool if someone addressed this in a polite but educating manner. For example tweeting: 2017 ladies, not cool. No need to attack them tho, because I agree with this one poster here: I give them the benefit of the doubt, that this is a result of ignorance and lack of "global cultural awareness". Childish behaviour which calls for some sort of intervention, not a slap or a whip but reasoning.
But please, this is not an issue found exclusively in Eastern Europe. The bizzare thing about most European countries is that -yes, you might say they tend to be nationalists or even racists, but in reality they are mostly local patriotic simpletons. There is no permanent Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian, Greek, Portugese mindset on a larger scale - Nationalism is only triggered in those countries when the everyday bubble is penetrated with something bigger, see refugee crisis . In everday life you'll find Catalans saying nasty, offensive things about Basques or people from Nothern Italy making rude jokes about people from Sicily. My point: the main problem with this attitude is not the apparent display of racism in the OP. It's the unhealthy pack mentality that doesn't stop at the color of your skin of the shape of your eyes. Don't know about the US, but I assume it's similar.
I agree with some posters about the rural America comparisson. In this day and age with all the social media stuff it would've been cool if someone addressed this in a polite but educating manner. For example tweeting: 2017 ladies, not cool. No need to attack them tho, because I agree with this one poster here: I give them the benefit of the doubt, that this is a result of ignorance and lack of "global cultural awareness". Childish behaviour which calls for some sort of intervention, not a slap or a whip but reasoning.
But please, this is not an issue found exclusively in Eastern Europe. The bizzare thing about most European countries is that -yes, you might say they tend to be nationalists or even racists, but in reality they are mostly local patriotic simpletons. There is no permanent Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian, Greek, Portugese mindset on a larger scale - Nationalism is only triggered in those countries when the everyday bubble is penetrated with something bigger, see refugee crisis . In everday life you'll find Catalans saying nasty, offensive things about Basques or people from Nothern Italy making rude jokes about people from Sicily. My point: the main problem with this attitude is not the apparent display of racism in the OP. It's the unhealthy pack mentality that doesn't stop at the color of your skin of the shape of your eyes. Don't know about the US, but I assume it's similar.
That's how I see it, as a Canadian Chinese. Ignorant, not malicious.
boiled goose
good with gravy
While it's not necessarily malicious, but it's extremely dehumanizing.
If you came from an outside culture and you knew what they are actually thinking when they do that, you would not let them off so easy. It comes from a place of condescension and superiority complex. It's not a celebration. It's turning a nationality or race into a joke.
It's the equivalent of calling a Chinese person Ching Chong.
It's as if a male got invited as a guest speaker to a women's issues conference and celebrated by putting oranges under their shirt and pretended to have boobs.
That Doesnt come from respect or admiration.
It comes from making a broad group of people into a big joke
You know what, not my battle to fight.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Why would you do this after the last time this happened though? lol
I'm just considering the context. Chances are, they don't know have much exposure to Southeast Asian people; what little exposure they have is likely to be common imagery seen in media.
I just don't get a hateful vibe from that photo.
I feel like the photographer said "Girls, do something Japanese", and that's what she went with.
This is a national volleyball team, representative of an entire country. Everyone involved in giving the greenlight for this photo-op, including the team members could easily have done their homework. No?
Especially in this era of information?
Even if there's no "malicious intent", can we at least agree that this was a really stupid idea and it wouldn't be surprising if it's viewed as an insult?
Like, even if you're afraid to call people who do racist shit racists, can we at least say that blatantly racist shit is blatantly racist shit?
Like, even if you're afraid to call people who do racist shit racists, can we at least say that blatantly racist shit is blatantly racist shit?
wait, what's the narrative?
I mean anything can fit any narrative if you google it enough
chromatic9
Member
Spain's male and female basketball and tennis teams say a big hello.
They could have. They didn't think to, because racial sensitivity probably isn't something they've ever sat down and considered, probably because they've never had a reason to.
Again, it's plain ignorance.
I find the pic amusing.
"Didn't think to" repeated often enough in cases such as these start to sound like "Never gave a...."
They whole program had every chance to, I can't find a single excuse why a countrys National team playing in an International league has absolutely zero-self awareness.
Showing your ass to the world isn't a good look, nor do I buy these case of childlike innocence. When there were probably plenty of intelligent people that could have intervened in that photo op.
But thats just how I look at it.
Apologise for extending this conversation as long as I have.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Jesus Christ.
The windmill that poster is likely tilting at is "only white people are racist towards east Asians huh, well check this!".
When no one has claimed such a thing.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Sunster
Member
not here to prove racism. I just wanna clear something up real quick,
racism doesn't require hatred/malice.
But it gives context to distinguish between racist photo and, racist people and country.
No, your interpretation is totally understandable, viewed from our cultural lens. It's unfathomable that they didn't know better, to those as exposed to racial topics as we are. All I'm really saying the world hasn't caught up, and in many parts of the globe the visibility just isn't there; I don't think it's particularly common for someone to look up a topic they don't know exists, and that's what we're looking at in that photo.
Spanish tennis team
Nothing new.
Funny enough, I am a 3rd generation Chinese American, and my girlfriend is Spanish/Catalan from Barcelona. I just see this and the Serbian team as silly and innocuous. In western and central europe, people don't have to deal with many other cultures other than your own. I'm sure in the grand scheme of things, they are waaaaaaaaaay more socially and culturally sensitive than China. Take my anecdotal experience for what it's worth, but I've had wonderful times partying and making friends in Spain and places like Croatia in comparison to China.
I know even being American and Chinese, and not speaking Chinese, people in China are very overtly rude towards me. There's a word or something like 'useless Chinese' that gets thrown around. That's pretty prejudice.
We live in a world where somebody literally defaced Lebron James' house, the most famous current American basketball player, with a hateful, and purposely hurtful racial slur. That's where the real dangerous racisim lies, not some young Serbians that don't know better.
Norwegian_Imposter
Member
But those legs though
Alas they are racist fucks
Alas they are racist fucks
DiipuSurotu
Banned
It's obviously more ignorant than malicious (like all the Blackfaces in Japanese anime). Regardless, it's still racist .
Waddle Dee
Member
God damn I knew what the pose was gonna be before even entering the thread...
Great post.
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