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Ashes: In a gentleman's game an image that mocked Asians

Adelaide: Apart from England poor showing in the on going Ashes series the other topic that engrossed the cricket fans is an image that was not only insensitive to England spinner Monty Panesar but a

India TV Sports Desk Updated on: December 07, 2013 7:15 IST


For Asian immigrants generally it no doubt also pales into significance beside a late night beating at a bus stop, or the sense of not being somehow other, in western communities.
 
So what does this image convey…..? Panesar looks like these men, and that these men all look like each other. So Asians look the same. Nice. Here comes another one just like the other one. Cricket Australia wishes to dress Panesar, and those who resemble him culturally, in the childish garb of mythological toddlers to tell them apart.
 
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