Top Gear upsets Mexican Ambassador

[Lemers]

Looks like the BBC has upset Mexico. Read the below article to see how Mexico doesn't like being called lazy. Not sure if I'd want to be called lazy either but Top Gear is supposed to be humorous. Sometimes people should take things with a grain of salt.

Originally Posted by LONDON (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) – The BBC apologised to the Mexican ambassador to London on Friday for remarks made about him on a top television show -- but defended its jokes about the country as being part of British humour.
Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora had written to the BBC earlier in the week about comments made by presenters of the motoring show "Top Gear" describing Mexicans as "lazy", "feckless" and "flatulent".
The BBC said in a statement that the executive producer of the show had "written to the Mexican Ambassador and apologised for the comments made about him during the show."
But it added: "On the broader issue of comments about Mexicans as people, the show has explained they were making comic use of a stereotype; a practice with which regular viewers of Top Gear will be familiar."
In the show, during a discussion about a sports car made by Mexican firm Mastretta, presenter Richard Hammond said vehicles reflected national characteristics.
"Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat," he said.
The presenters then described Mexican food as "sick with cheese on it".
Chief presenter Jeremy Clarkson later said "we won't get any complaints about this because the Mexican ambassador's going to be sitting there with a remote control like this" -- before slumping in his chair and snoring.
The BBC said hundreds of Mexicans had contacted its Spanish-language website BBC Mundo to complain.
Medina-Mora described the remarks as "outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults".
But the BBC said that while the comments may have been "rude" there was "no vindictiveness" behind them.
"We are sorry if we have offended some people, but jokes centred on national stereotyping are a part of Top Gear's humour, and indeed a robust part of our national humour," the statement said.
"Our own comedians make jokes about the British being terrible cooks and terrible romantics, and we in turn make jokes about the Italians being disorganised and over dramatic; the French being arrogant and the Germans being over organized."

[TreeSemdyZee]

Oh good grief.

[red6spd]

Can you hear that????? Its the worlds smallest violin playing just for them.. LOL

[370zproject]

lmao

[N8GTOL]

Originally Posted by red6spd

Can you hear that????? Its the worlds smallest violin playing just for them.. LOL

or a Guatemalan mariachi band

[ThoriumHotdog]

I'm glad the real Top Gear isn't filmed in the US. There would be angry La Raza protests and Clarkson would have been canned on the spot. Hurray for the UK!

[red6spd]

Originally Posted by ThoriumHotdog

I'm glad the real Top Gear isn't filmed in the US. There would be angry La Raza protests and Clarkson would have been canned on the spot. Hurray for the UK!

This is so true, everyone would have been fired, land of the free huh?

[Staples]

God I love that show

[Lemers]

The American filter is changing from "for the people" to "for the minorities"

[One_Quick_Z]

Really come on?!?! They make fun of everyone...... this is really dumb.




DAN

[Lemers]

I guess the truth stings even more.

[370zproject]

true lol

[nuTinmuch]

Originally Posted by Lemers

The American filter is changing from "for the people" to "for the minorities"

Yeah man, white dudes have it so tough.

wait

[frost]

Why are they watching this show in mexico? There's only like, 5 people in all of mexico who can afford the cars they have

[Anatoray]

It was the Mexican Ambassador, so I'm guessing he was watching it in London.