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<blockquote data-quote="KelfinK" data-source="post: 1541568" data-attributes="member: 440973">I think every one should write a email to blockbuster about how wrong it is to support this by selling the dolls in their stores. Send an email!!So I asked about the whole voodoo dolls and I was given a very harsh response. from being called white trash and stupid, to even being called racist. The problem was with the voodoo dolls that were made for the soccer game USA vs MEXICO and the word gringo. they made white doll depicting a shirt with the word gringo on the dolls shirt and having red hair and one eye. It bothered me because that is a very racist word when used in USA. The game is in USA not Mexico. so the word contradicts it&#039;s self there for is racist. I won&#039;t lie I will strait cuss out any Mexican, Doesn&#039;t matter what color Mexican that calls me a Gringo and it&#039;s damn near fighting words to me. You don&#039;t tend to hear a US Hispanic American calling others gringos. it just wouldn&#039;t make any since.I wouldn&#039;t have had a problem with the dolls if they made them look like the players of the us team. With the jersey numbers and name. I Think that would have been a great idea. It could really get some kids really involved in the game. but sadly it turns it to a stab the white gringo Doll. What are your thoughts in this matter.Gringo is &quot;a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)&quot;.wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwnDisparaging means &#039;derogative: expressive of low opinion; &quot;derogatory comments&quot;&#039;wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwnNow I&#039;m sure you can see that word is racist when used in the US</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KelfinK, post: 1541568, member: 440973"] I think every one should write a email to blockbuster about how wrong it is to support this by selling the dolls in their stores. Send an email!! So I asked about the whole voodoo dolls and I was given a very harsh response. from being called white trash and stupid, to even being called racist. The problem was with the voodoo dolls that were made for the soccer game USA vs MEXICO and the word gringo. they made white doll depicting a shirt with the word gringo on the dolls shirt and having red hair and one eye. It bothered me because that is a very racist word when used in USA. The game is in USA not Mexico. so the word contradicts it's self there for is racist. I won't lie I will strait cuss out any Mexican, Doesn't matter what color Mexican that calls me a Gringo and it's damn near fighting words to me. You don't tend to hear a US Hispanic American calling others gringos. it just wouldn't make any since. I wouldn't have had a problem with the dolls if they made them look like the players of the us team. With the jersey numbers and name. I Think that would have been a great idea. It could really get some kids really involved in the game. but sadly it turns it to a stab the white gringo Doll. What are your thoughts in this matter. Gringo is "a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)". wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Disparaging means 'derogative: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"' wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Now I'm sure you can see that word is racist when used in the US [/QUOTE]

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