how do you say ching chong chinaman in spanish?

it’s funny how overt racism can appear in main media. and i am being completely honest – i think it is hilarious in 2008 when let’s say the spanish olympic basketball team finds it acceptable to give themselves epicanthic folds for a publicity photo at the 2008 beijing olympics. to make it funnier – it includes pau gasol who is not only a star on the lakers but a unicef ambassador.

i find it outrageously funny when the star of mtv's the hills (honestly i don’t watch it, but i do watch the soup which gives me the blow by blow of reality television characters embarrassing themselves week after week) discuss on tyra banks if he were to adopt a child from africa he would call him “dunk,” as in dunk the ball in basketball.

how about adam sandler’s quest to make the most homophobic movie ever – as in i now pronounce you chuck and larry which has two “men” who have to kiss each other (ewwww!) to get health benefits. you know i could make out with a girl for health insurance without needing to wash my mouth out with scope immediately afterwards - hell i do it for 10 bucks. follow up that gem with don’t mess with the zohan, who is a post israeli army hair dresser and insert your own multiple gay jokes here.

finally, one of my favorites is a rochester cine-plex staple of senor nacho, a cartoon figure dressed in a sombrero, green, red and yellow poncho, handlebar mustache and white pants asking you to consider purchasing some gooey orange cheese nachos! andale, andale! arriba, arriba! who creates this? what artists draws this and thinks - oh my god, this is the perfect example of a mexican?

my grandfather used to call my toyota a rice burner. he also called brazilian nuts “nigger toes.” i use to think he was old and only the old are racists/homophobes. my mother uses to recall when “sugar babies” were called “nigger babies” and “einee minee miney moe, catch a nigger by its toe” was the original lyrics to the well known nursery rhythm. she pointed out that these were wrong, she was not as old as my grandfather. my grandfather is long dead, but luckily for humor sake, racism and homophobia are not. although bothered and hard to believe these things happen in this age, it only takes a moment until i laugh at their absurdity. just like the austrian who kept his daughter/mother of his children locked in the basement for a decade, it is the absurdity that makes it funny. strike that, austrians win = much funnier than the spanish ching chong chinaman faces. sorry spain, you must settle for the silver medal....