Odessa

The Spanish Olympic basketball team did something rather silly - they posed making their eyes squinty before heading off to Beijing. Some in this country view it as a slam to their Chinese hosts. Some say that if the American basketball team did they same thing, they'd be put on the next plane back to the US and or they'd be fined or suspended. But the Spanish and Europe in general don't seem the slightest bit shocked - it was just a humorous prank to them.

Are we in North America over sensitive to race issues? Are our European counterparts not sensitive enough? Are European just plain racist?

I'm not sure I have all the answers to these questions. However, I do think we can take ourselves a bit too seriously here in the US and that we can push being politically correct to absurd proportions. I also think the Spanish basketball team was a bit tasteless in posing like they did - Racist? Maybe - Stupid? Absolutely.