The academy will ensure that the FA’s decision demonstrates its “poverty of cultural and linguistic knowledge”.
The Uruguayan National Academy of Letters expressed in a statement “its most energetic response” respecting the sanction of Manchester United footballer Edinson Cavani in his Instagram comment that the English Football Association (FA) considers racist.
The institution explains that the only value that can hold the “negro” phrase, used by the Uruguayan delirium, is the affective. Thus, the academy ensures that the FA demonstrates its decision on “poverty of cultural and linguistic knowledge”.
“In the variety of Spanish of Uruguay, for example, between couples and friends, between fathers and they can be here and learn forms like gordis, gordito, negri, negrito / a. In the hechos, the person to whom he deals these vocations do not mean that you have soberly or have a dark skin color for recipients “, writes the academy, reiterating that the FA” has committed a serious injustice “.