Carl, I had never thought about it…I guess you’re right. In Spain it’s totally unacceptable to make fun at gay people, and as Eleena says, I wouldn’t even consider them as a “minority group”.

Anyway, my point was, why are you all taking for granted the “slanted eyes” gesture was some kind of mockery? I’m 100% sure it wasn’t, but, still, one has to be careful with these kind of things, that photo wasn’t a good idea, it was more fuel for the PC-Brigade.

Gracias por el enlace Eleena y un saludo.

Regarding the gay community in Spain, there are so many highly-regarded and well-liked gays in the public eye in Spain and gays have the right to marry and generally live their lives the way they see fit without governmental or societal meddling, so I wonder if homosexuals are even viewed as a minority group in Spain?

Hopefully some Spaniards will weigh in on this. Paging Roberto and Castellón. Where are you guys?

I’m wondering if the racial groups / minority groups in Spain are not sufficiently organized or not large enough / established enough, to voice their opinion about perceived racial discrimination, etc. So therefore the Spanish have not been “trained” like Americans have been to make their language more sensitive, or “PC”.

But what about the Gay community? Would it be OK in Spain to insult them in an advertisement or somehow make fun of them? Or are the Spanish “PC” in regards to this group because they are big enough to complain?

I also think the Chinese people themselves couldn’t care less about this, I’m under the impression it’s only the PC American culture that makes a big deal out of this sort of things. Perhaps I’m wrong, I don’t know, I’m not judging the American culture, if you have decided to be so politically correct, I’m sure there’s a very good reason for it. But it seems to me that some American media and people fail to understand that the rest of the world is not like the USA. Political Correctness is something very un-Spanish, as you already know.

El villano, you’re right, we will never learn, we insist in having our own ideas about everything. You are entitled to yours, I’m entitled to mine, ,perhaps you will convince me, perhaps you will not, I will decide for myself. But there’s one thing I won’t try to do: trying to convince you my cultural values are superior to yours.

surely, anything they do is always beyond reproach…..!

when the hell will they learn……?