It was Swedish parents with the open-mouthed faces that met the employee from the Spies-the hotel in Turkey, when she had to entertain the many children at this family-friendly hotel.
To the day’s entertainment had the people from the kid’s Lollo and Bernie chosen, you should play thief and police at the large pool area at the hotel.
One of the employees had been given the role as a thief, and it was, therefore, her many children had to catch.
to make it absolutely clear that it was her who should be arrested, she chose to mask themselves. To many parents ‘ horror, she chose, however, a COMPLETELY wrong disguise to the innocent play.
the Woman had chosen to stand out from the crowd by painting themselves black in the face.
the Mood was very strange, and everybody was very shocked. She ran around the pool, and everyone saw what happened, tells a Swedish hotel guest to Aftonbladet.
the Paint ended up encountering several of the guests, who believed that the employee sent a completely wrong signal with your costume.
– here is something you maybe thought was okay to do in the 1920s. It is extremely stereotyped, it sounded from another hotel guest to Aftonbladet.
It was the hotel here, where the incident took place. Photo: SPIES
Can be thought of offensive
For many are black paint in the face of perceived offensive, demeaning and stereotyped, because in the past has been used for entertainment in order to imitate the stereotypical roles that black people.
the press officer Charlotte Hallencreutz from Ving, who organizes tours to the hotel for the Swedish guests, says to Aftonbladet, however, there was not a thought out action, because the woman chose to paint themselves black in the face.
‘Usually you use a scarf or a wig. This time thought the employee, however, that it was a good idea to paint themselves in order to mask themselves for the children, and unfortunately, she chose black complexion’, she writes in an email.
Charlotte Hallencreutz also says in the email that the one with Ving takes the full responsibility for the incident and, of course, will speak with the colleague, who ‘do not have some intentions with the paint and the subsequent regret and is sorry, how the action is perceived’.
– If you as an adult can not understand that it is a problem to dress like this and be chased, it is a serious matter. It is a little there, the problem is located, tells a hotel guest.
Ving will internally make a clarification of the incident and assures that it will not happen again.
Sunwing Side beach has previously been voted the best family hotel in Turkey.
