Do I laugh in disbelief, or cringe?

[bktheirregular]

Still flabbergasted by this:

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_37_15/09/2009_329323

For reference, that's Georgios Papandreou, leader of the PASOK party, applying the ... makeup.

Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally WRONG with that political cartoon?

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[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Very wrong from our perspective, but I'm not sure a Greek would understand why.

[bktheirregular]

Yeah, part of me wants to say "crap like this is what triggered our civil war", and part of me says that because they don't share our history of racial problems, there's no way for them to understand the magnitude of the insult...