Fiesta Mexicana

Has anybody heard about the Australian Big Brother and how they caused an outcry among Mexicans living in Australia and also in Mexico? I think in Germany you could only read 5 lines about it in the newspapers; if at all. Here is what happened:

In the Australian Big-Brother house they had a competition called "Fiesta Mexicana". The first game was called "Sombreros musicales". All were dressed in traditional Spanish/Mexican cloths and wore heads of papier-mâché While the music played they had to run around a number of Mexican flags in the middle of the room. When the music stopped they had to grab one and those who didn't get any were eliminated.

Another game was called "Tabasco fiasco" where the competitors had to eat a number of different Mexican dishes.

But the game which the Mexicans didn't like at all was called "Frijoles saltarines" (jumping beans). The competitors where divided into two teams. One group had to throw balloons filled with a red liquid at a Mexican flag while the other tried to prevent that. That group which had the "driest" flag, won the game.

The last part of the competition was a quiz about Mexico. There were questions like "how the Mexican capital is called, the Mexican currency, when was the last soccer world championship in Mexico, how many inhabitants and from which country Mexico became independent. One competitor answered "United States"... and he got the point for that!!!