Posted on 06/23/2007 6:05:10 AM PDT by dead
AGUAS CALIENTES, Peru - Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion faux pas in Peru. The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films may have inadvertently offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring here Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favorite political slogans.
While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru, where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
A prominent Peruvian human rights activist said the star of "There's Something About Mary" should have been a little more aware of local sensitivities when picking her accessories.
"It alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims," said Pablo Rojas about the bag's slogan. "I don't think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology" did so much damage.
Well this is the third time this morning this story has been posted, and as far as I know no one has found it curious that so many Peruvians can read Chinese!!
I am still buying the latest Shrek when it comes out on video. Great movies.
Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin once wrote, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Probably few to none. But they damn sure know what the red star means.
"Ma'am - where did you get that insulting bag?"
"What? Well, a waitress friend of mine gave me this bag as a gift. Says here 'Serve the People', see? Well, that's exactly what she does - every day. What's so offensive?"
But she still is furthering the frontiers of microbiology by serving as a walking petri dish.
This line always make me "imagine" what his reaction would be if someone just walked off with his guitar.
Typical celebrity feel-good liberalism. These idiot “stars” haven’t got anything between their ears that is capable of higher functions, such as thought, reason, will, understanding.
On Oprah, iirc.
I thought she went as far as to say that if you vote for Bush he'll take your body away from you. I may be wrong, but nonetheless, she is dumber than a box of rocks.
She saw the red star and screamed, “Ohhhhh...Macys!”
Never thought too much about that until we saw Macy's commercials with the odious Susan Sarandon - this was during the Christmas holidays last year. Haven't seen her since.
“saw the bag in a shop on Rodeo Drive”
Or available at sportsmansguide.com. I bought a red tee-shirt for my daughter with the `Great Helmsman’s’ image in black, & chinese characters beneath, and beneath those, in parenthesis the English translation:
“I know communism doesn’t work.”
"Women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. If you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, then you should vote."
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