Censors in La Cubanita

[RADIORAMA]

Why is the song censored in the US version of Exceed? What is so scandalous about it that it was censored?

[Ledline]

cuss words and racial slurs that are said in spanish.

[Kyosuke Kagami]

Dude, don't assume that kind of words are racial slurs everywhere.

In most latinamerican countries with a high black people population (including, of course, Mexico and Cuba), it's perfectly normal to use those words

"Negra" is only the word you use to refer to a black woman, that's all. It has no racist meanings at all. Maybe it may be offensive in the US, but not in other places. Heck, I used to live near a city whose population was 90% black, and I also used to live near a coast city where there was also a high black people population, and the use of those words there is very normal and not racist in any way. Some people even use it simply to refer to a very attractive woman, no matter if she's black or not.

Don't generalize, please.

[cj iwakura]

Why Mastiff thought to assume the few people that bought Exceed US that actually understood Cubanita's lyrics could actually find that word offensive is beyond me.

What's even funnier is that X-Treme's profanity is still intact.

[Kyosuke Kagami]

I think it had more to do with Andamiro than Mastiff.

... La Cubanita is also censored in Exceed Portable LOL

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Originally Posted by Kyosuke Kagami

Dude, don't assume that kind of words are racial slurs everywhere.

In most latinamerican countries with a high black people population (including, of course, Mexico and Cuba), it's perfectly normal to use those words

"Negra" is only the word you use to refer to a black woman, that's all. It has no racist meanings at all. Maybe it may be offensive in the US, but not in other places. Heck, I used to live near a city whose population was 90% black, and I also used to live near a coast city where there was also a high black people population, and the use of those words there is very normal and not racist in any way. Some people even use it simply to refer to a very attractive woman, no matter if she's black or not.

Don't generalize, please.

ah ok, the part about it being a racial slur is what I heard from someone else