That brainiac Cameron Diaz pulls an insulting faux pas with our South American friends. Her trendy red star Chairman Mao quote bag shows she could be the next Hollywood UN ambassador at large. Worse than Richard Gere's uncontrolled groping of a Bollywood Buddist star, this pin head takes the cake for mindlessness.

 Breitbart.com :

Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion crime in Peru.

Peruvians suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency. Then Cameron tours there on Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favourite political slogans.

While she explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words 'Serve the People' printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.

While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru.

The Maoist Shining Path insurgency took Peru to the 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.

A prominent Peruvian human rights activist said the star of There's Something About Mary should have been a little more aware of local sensitivities when picking her accessories.

"It alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims," said Pablo Rojas about the bag's slogan.

"I don't think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology" did so much damage.
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Note : Pablo Rojas has to get the 2007 award for understatement.

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