OlderCameron Diaz Apologizes to Peru
Cameron Diaz sported a bag with the Maoist slogan “Serve the People” while sightseeing in Peru on Friday, not realizing the painful memories it would invoke. The famous political slogan was by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and “has particular relevance in Peru where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency almost brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s.”
The Shrek star was touring the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu at the time with Sol Guy, an MTV Canada Host.
In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on sunday, Cameron said she’s sorry for the slogan’s “potentially hurtful nature” and wishes Peruvians “for their continued healing.”
Here’s what the email said: “I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it. I’m sorry for any people’s pain and suffering and it was certainly never my intention to reopen what I now know is a painful wound in this country’s history.”
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This is so making a mountain out of a molehill and it is highly doubtful that there is a molehill at all. So everyone in Peru reads Chinese now? because the five characters on the bag are Chinese which reads Serve the People. Why is that offensive?! Yes, Peru lost a lot of people to insurgency problem but that is hardly the fault of Cameron Diaz, much less her bag. Just rightwing propaganda.
those bags can be purchased at like every tourist trap in china, they’re souvenirs thats meant be to sort of a joke with a slight mocking quality(the series also include communist apparel, mao watches, hats, mugs, stationery etc etc . nobody takes it seriously, what a freakin overreaction
My god……..what idiots.
THE PURSE DE CAMERON IS OF TERRORISTS, AND POINT THE SHINING PATH PONIAN PHRASES OF EQUAL RED COLOR TO THE ONE DE CAMERON ONCE HACIAN ITS SLAUGHTER TO EXTREMELY POOR PEOPLE AND WHEN I SAY THIS TO THEM IS SO THAT CAMERON TRUTH MADE REMEMBER THAT PART OF OUR HISTORY THAT IS VERY LAMENTABLE AND PAINFUL WE DO NOT WANT THAT YOU RETURN TO PERU, CAMERON TO YOU DIAZ YOU ARE A VERGUENZA SO THAT YOU KNOW IN WHERE YOU WALK WE WANT THAT YOU NEVER RETURN…. STUPID WOMAN AND OF FEW FEELINGS
the Diaz cameron you are a badly representing one you are a stupid idiot dog, you are not only a threat for any country that has a culture, not only to Peru but all Latin America you are repugnant I believe that and I forget to you of where you are your and what eras before being actress of holliwood it seems that I forget that to you. .cameron Diaz you are one anyone.
IF THIS BAG WAS SO INSULTING AND OFFENSIVE, WHY DIDN’T A PERUVIAN WALK UP TO HER (you know, like her guide) AND INFORM CAMERON OF THIS MISTAKE TO HER FACE? NOT LET HER WALK AROUND ALL DAY WITH IT ON, THEN ***** AND COMPLAIN AFTER SHE’S GONE.
IN ALL THE PICTURES I’VE SEEN HERE AND ELSEWHERE, ALL YOU PERUVIANS ARE JUST SMILING AWAY…..(know wonder this horror happened in Peru) SPEAK UP, FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
gosh you know most peruvians didn’t even cared about it..not because they dont care about the shinning path history but simply because no once noticed..she was all voer the newspapers and no one mentioned the bag..its only foreign newspapers that did
Know what you wear.
The bag WAS on the papers and people DID care. They were truly offended. You think this was like a t-shirt with the WTC buildings and a plane crashing into them? It’s nothing like that, americans had to deal with 1 day under attack. Peruvians had to deal with 15 years under siege, so don’t dare to compare both situations.
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