Star soccer player Edinson Cavani, a Uruguayan striker who plays for Manchester United, was fined and suspended after publicly thanking his friend Pablo Fernandez by using his childhood nickname, “negrito.”
The problem for Cavani came when people in British media who had not grown up in South America used a singular, narrow contextual view of Cavani’s use of the word to paint him as a racist. Cavani was fined about $135,000 by the English Football Association and suspended for three games for the alleged infraction. As Dariela Sosa explained on Persuasion:
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