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    Spanish Tennis Team Also Strikes "Chinky-Eyed Chinaman" Pose!

    You would have thought, perhaps, that the embarrassing ad photo of the Spanish Olympic basketball team in the eyelids-pulled-back, "Slanty-eyed Chinese" pose was just a one-off thing. I mean, if they had done this before, they would have had a better apology ready, right? But maybe Asia-mocking is actually a favorite pastime of all Spanish athletes—because their 2008 Federation Cup Tennis team, which beat China to move into the finals, was photographed in the same god damn pose!:

    Photo from the Spanish Tennis Federation's site:

    Photo of Spain's team from the Fed Cup site:

    Hey Spain, stop that.


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