Cameron Diaz Angers Peru with Mao Bag
Most people will find fault with Cameron Diaz in this news story, but me, I think it’s just the product of an uneducated actress who doesn’t know her Mao Zedong from her Sun Tzu. In a recent trip to Peru, Cameron Diaz carried a trendy purse with Communist China’s Mao Zedong’s favorite slogan emblazon on the side. It read: “Serve the People” in Chinese. Of course I know Diaz doesn’t speak or read Chinese, and I’m pretty sure she can’t find China on the map anywhere, or know the difference between Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. So I’m going to forgive her for this politically incorrect oops.
The rest of the story from the AP goes:
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.
Okay, so followers of Mao slaughtered over 70,000 people in their campaign to turn Peru into another China, you can’t blame that on Cameron. She’s just a dumb Hollywood chick, guys, give her a break!
Plus, she looks really awesome in a bikini.
